Author David Watson

When an unlikely American pickpocket in Paris, Michael (Game Of Thrones' ill-fated King In The North, Richard Madden), steals the bag belonging to Parisienne gamine Zoe (Charlotte Le Bon) he gets more than...

Couple In A Hole, Belgian writer/director Tom Geens’ second feature is, well, it’s about a couple who live in a hole. The couple, John (Paul Higgins) and Karen (Kate Dickie), are (formerly) middle class...

In the early hours, hungover and afflicted by existential ennui, Hollywood wunderkind Thomas (Garrett Hedlund playing the kind of terminally cool, critically feted actor/director/artist filmmaking polymath...

Ballardian /ˌbæladiən/ adjective of James Graham Ballard (1930–2009), the British novelist, or his works   resembling or suggestive of the conditions described in Ballard's novels and...

I hate camping. Or at least I would if I ever went camping. In the 30 or so years since I left the Scouts somewhat under a cloud (illicit booze, modelling glue and some visiting Girl Guides were...

Idealistic young Columbia University student Justine (Lorenza Izzo) is entranced by Chelsea Che Guevara, Alejandro (Ariel Levy), joining his eco-activist group of earnest acolytes and accompanying them to the...

Four old men (Fred Astaire, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Melvyn Douglas and the inimitable John Houseman), lifelong friends who all themselves the Chowder Society, meet on a regular basis to drink and tell ghost...

It’s 1957 and as American children learn to Duck And Cover in the classroom, the Cold War stalemate between the West and the Soviets threatens to heat up at any moment, both sides poised with their fingers...

Intent on finding his missing wife Ana (Lorenza Izzo) and travelling only by night (that’s not ominous at all), the taciturn titular stranger, Martin (Christobal Tapia Montt), appears at the door of teenage...

After failing to secure a coveted promotion at work, train guard Joe (Ed Speleers) finds himself relegated to the graveyard shift on the last train out of Waterloo. It’s the usual collection of drunks, tired...

Opening this week across the UK, Movie Ramblings' David Watson caught up with director Karen Guthrie to talk about her bittersweet, multi-award winning documentary The Closer We Get.   DW: Really loved...

“You can choose your friends but you can’t choose your family!” As sayings go, it’s one my mother has always been fond of quoting, normally when an aunt or a cousin does something particularly...

Life’s pretty sweet for teen Goth high school hottie Dora (Chloe Rose); it’s Halloween, she’s ditching school to kick back in the arms of her boyfriend Jace (Luke Bilyk), smoking a joint and generally be...

When a high-tech bank robbery (in Cape Town, South Africa, of all places!) goes wrong and her identity is accidentally revealed, super-thief Alex (Olga Kurylenko) is forced to kill one of her trigger-happy...

Released in 1971 and the winner of five Oscars, among them Best Film, Best Director (William Friedkin) and Best Actor (Gene Hackman), The French Connection is a hard act to follow. Enthrallingly shot with an...

When the two criminal empires that rule England’s gangland, John Claridge’s (Bernard Hill) Northern gang and Vic Clarke’s (Steven Berkoff) Southern mob, meet to bury the hatchet and discuss a fragile...

In debt to some Russian gangsters BFFs and luckless douchebags Ajay (Ray Panthaki) and Shaan (Adeel Akhtar) have just one night to raise the money or else...well, that part was left kinda vague but these are...

Sad Keanu turns Mad Keanu – mad as Hell – in what may just be the best American action movie in decades, the stylish, neo-noir John Wick. Reeling from the death of his beloved wife (Bridget Moynihan),...

In the 23rd century, space travel is a thing of the past, replaced by the far quicker and cheaper ‘slipstreaming’, allowing our descendants to commute daily halfway across the solar system, teleporting in...

***WARNING! CONTAINS SPOILERS***   We talk to BAFTA nominated actor Robert Sheehan (Misfits, Red Riding Trilogy, The Mortal Instruments) about playing a very reluctant psychic in his new...

“I see dead people.” Remember that little kid from The Sixth Sense? Imagine he grew up. Imagine he still saw dead people. Imagine no one believed him. And imagine he grew up into a filthy,...