Author Matthew Hammond

After an absence of 12 years, Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan is back, with another hot young Hollywood star, a Brit playing a villain and the trials and tribulations of American/Russian relations on the line....

What happens when you take, arguably, the most iconic storyline in the history of X-Men comics, the man who defined the film series, and one of the most impressively assembled casts in recent cinema history?...

The Strange Colour of Your Body’s Tears is a sensory explosion of psycho-sexual fears and desires, one that transports the viewer into a realm of dark sexual power caught in the whirling frenzy of the...

There is something poetic about Jason Statham taking the lead heroic role in a film that was a Sylvester Stallone vehicle for many years in the nineties, before the chance and time passed. In a sense,...

Science fiction and horror are perfect partners. Some of the most affective films of the last 30 years have used the fear of the unknown and the unquantifiable, the potential for humanity to be lost as...

Horror sequels are part and parcel of the business, and over recent years they have arrived as regular as clockwork, more often than not, scary for all the wrong reasons. However an unexpected horror sequel is...

In 2010, a Mexican horror film slowly spread across the world, finding praise from critics who held in the same lofty regard as Tomas Alfredson’s Let The Right One In, another slice of foreign horror...

The war film genre is one that has been altered and complicated in modern cinema by the aftermath of 9/11. With the political climate intensified, sensitivity and unbiased attitude is essential to the...

After an absence of 12 years, Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan is back, with another hot young Hollywood star, a Brit playing a villain and the trials and tribulations of American/Russian relations on the line....

The true-life crime drama is an often difficult beast to master. The best films, like Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, work because they are able to balance the banality and shock of the real, with the...

There is something poetic about Jason Statham taking the lead heroic role in a film that was a Sylvester Stallone vehicle for many years in the nineties, before the chance and time passed. In a sense,...

The stories of Stephen King are some of the most popular works of horror fiction in the history of mainstream literature, and as such, have proved a fertile ground for adaptation into feature films and...

As the follow up to their previous feature, Rabies, which has the distinction of being the first Israeli horror film, directors Aharon Keshales and Navot Papushado return with Big Bad Wolves, a fusion of...

Sapphic desire. Obsession. Identity crisis. These powerful themes coalesce at the heart of Ian Softley’s adaptation of Sabastien Japrisot’s novel, Trap for Cinderella. Opening in dramatic fashion...

It’s Halloween again…and yes, it’s horror sequel time. In recent years, the Saw and Paranormal Activity series have been as regular as clockwork with a Halloween release of the next...

In recent years, as the conditions of third world mega cities are constantly addressed in the news and wider culture, filmmakers have been able to comment on the realities and social injustices of these spaces...

The problem with most modern thrillers can be that they try a little too hard sometimes.  Filmmakers throw technique, twisted, excessive performances that don’t quite ring true, and above all...

The crime thriller is a well-tread genre, one that has evolved with each new generation and the changes in both the world of film and criminal cunning. However, the history of the genre still reverberates to...

Formula One motor racing has evolved greatly over the last 40 years: Faster vehicles, more complex technologies, more safety measures, and more money. However, while the quality of these factors has improved,...

Among this year’s stellar Cult line up at the London Film Festival, there is one film that I personally have been anticipating for years now. Something that promises to be delirious, intoxicating,...

In 2003, a crime took place that made British legal history; one that shook the lives of a small community, and whose waves reverberated across the entire nation…bringing to the surface latent fears...