3.0 Horror Channel Frightfest Review: Diane David Watson August 24, 2017 Editor's Choice, Film4 Frightfest, London Reviews Alone and isolated, disabled war veteran Steve (Jason Alan Smith) lives a relatively solitary existence. Injured in Afghanistan and obviously suffering from PTSD, he’s become a virtual recluse, getting...
4.0 Movie Review: Bushwick David Watson August 23, 2017 Movie Reviews Bringing her boyfriend home to meet the grandmother who raised her, it seems like a normal day for college student Lucy (Brittany Snow) as she steps off the subway train in Brooklyn’s Bushwick...
5.0 Movie Review: A Ghost Story David Watson August 9, 2017 Editor's Choice, Movie Reviews A Ghost Story is a hard film to review but a deceptively easy one to summarise. A young couple, C (Casey Affleck) and M (Rooney Mara) live and love in a small rented house in smallish town Texas. A musician...
5.0 Movie Review: Land Of Mine David Watson August 4, 2017 Editor's Choice, Movie Reviews History is always written by the victors. It’s a sad fact but war crimes are only ever the preserve of the losing side. In the Summer of 1945, at the close of the Second World War, the Western...
0.0 Rental Review: Kuso David Watson July 24, 2017 DVDs & Rentals I'm depressed. The shards of hope I nursed for the future are gone, shattered by the heavy feet of prurience and pretension. You see, last week I saw Kuso, Steve Ellison's (aka music producer Flying...
4.0 Movie Review: Scribe David Watson July 18, 2017 Movie Reviews After an alcoholic nervous breakdown at work, middle aged, mild-mannered accountant Duval (François Cluzet) finds himself unemployed and unemployable. Two years later, he’s living an almost monastic...
4.0 DVD Review: Origin Wars David Watson July 17, 2017 DVDs & Rentals Before it became a global franchise to rival McDonalds, it’s worth remembering that when George Lucas first set out to make Star Wars, it was only because he’d been thwarted in his attempt to get...
4.0 Movie Review: David Lynch – The Art Life David Watson July 14, 2017 Editor's Choice, Movie Reviews A visionary director and true artist of the form, things have been a bit quiet on the cinematic front from David Lynch for the last decade or so. Sure, he's been banging the drum for the joys and benefits...
5.0 Movie Review: Song To Song David Watson July 10, 2017 Movie Reviews It’s become almost a sport to hate Terrence Malick, to mock him, to dismiss him as a parody of his own reclusive, enigmatic image, his films nothing more than pretentious, philosophical wool-gathering....
5.0 DVD Review: The Age Of Shadows David Watson July 10, 2017 DVDs & Rentals “Who can be a friend in this age?†That’s the question that beats at the heart of Kim Jee-woon’s elegantly vicious 1920s-set spy thriller transposing the twists and turns of...
4.0 Movie Review: A Good Day To Die, Hoka Hey David Watson June 27, 2017 Movie Reviews "Hoka hey!" It's a commonly held misconception popularised by Buffalo Bill and his travelling show, by dime novels and B-movies, by the organic mythology of the Old West, that this Sioux saying that Crazy...
3.0 Movie Review: The Shepherd (El Pastor) David Watson May 30, 2017 Movie Reviews Solitary but content, middle-aged local shepherd Anselmo (Miguel Martin) lives alone in a shack just outside of town with his dog Pillo. It’s a tough but rewarding existence - Anselmo spending long days...
1.0 Movie Review: Spaceship David Watson May 15, 2017 Movie Reviews Still mourning the mysterious drowning/possible suicide of her mother, teenage cyber-goth Lucidia (Alexa Davies) mooches around Aldershot with her cyber-goth friends doing cyber-goth things, which seem to...
4.0 Movie Review: The Levelling David Watson May 9, 2017 Movie Reviews After the sudden and suspicious death of her brother Harry, young trainee vet Clover (Ellie Kendrick) returns to the Somerset family cattle farm and the man she thought she’d escaped years ago; her...
3.0 Movie Review: Letters From Baghdad David Watson April 25, 2017 Movie Reviews There’s a great film to be made about the life of Gertrude Bell. Born in 1868 to a wealthy family able to fund her education and adventures, at 17, Bell read history at Oxford (one of the few...
4.0 Movie Review: Man Down David Watson April 2, 2017 Movie Reviews In the ruins of a post-apocalyptic America, former marine, Gabriel Drummer (a beefed-up Shia LaBeouf), still traumatised by his experiences serving in Afghanistan, searches for his missing wife (Kate Mara) and...
4.0 Movie Review: The Void David Watson March 30, 2017 Movie Reviews After a massacre at an isolated farmhouse, a disparate group of 80's stereotypes (the reluctant hero cop with "issues", his ex-wife, an arsey student nurse, a pregnant girl and her protective grandfather, the...
3.5 Movie Review: Don’t Knock Twice David Watson March 30, 2017 Editor's Choice, Movie Reviews After putting her in foster care as a child, successful artist and recovered drug addict Jess (Katee Sackhoff) is desperate to build some bridges with her now full-grown, stroppy teenage daughter Chloe (Lucy...
2.0 Movie Review: The Lost City Of Z David Watson March 27, 2017 Movie Reviews James Gray is a genius. He must be. Everyone says so. Since sloping onto the arthouse scene in 1995 with the comically melancholy Russian Jewish shoegazing hitman drama Little Odessa and earning a Silver Bear...
5.0 Movie Review: The Eyes Of My Mother David Watson March 24, 2017 Editor's Choice, Movie Reviews SPOILERS CONTAINED IN THIS REVIEW “Loneliness can do strange things to the mind.†Few films leave me breathless. Shocked. Speechless. Unsettled. Disturbed. Like I’ve been filled...
4.0 DVD Review: Train To Busan David Watson March 19, 2017 DVDs & Rentals, Editor's Choice Divorced workaholic Seok-woo (Gong Yoo) hasn’t been the best of fathers lately, choosing the office over his daughter Su-an’s (Kim Su-an) recital and buying her the same game console for her...