DVDs & Rentals

Not to be confused with Ti West’s starts-off-great-then-blows-the-ending The Sacrament, Sacrament is an ultra-low budget offering that takes us back to cannibal culture. It also has a sad hook, being the last film appearance of Texas Chainsaw Massacre...

When he won the Oscar for his role in Hannah And Her Sisters, Michael Caine famously was unable to pick up his wee gold man as he was in the Caribbean shooting Jaws: The Revenge, a film so awful it prompted Caine to state years later: "I have never seen it,...

Some things you just never expect. A case in point: at a friend’s birthday drinks recently, I fell into conversation with a self-described pom pom maker. Someone who makes their living making POM POMS! That could only be described as…unexpected. On a...

It Follows. It. Follows. Evocative, mysterious, bold and pure. Rarely does a title so perfectly encapsulate the mood and mastery of the film it represents, but for David Robert Mitchell’s remarkable horror, it stands as a testament to a film...

Movies about computer hackers, well, they tend to…kinda suck. I mean hacking isn’t really a spectator sport, is it? Which is why every movie ever made about hackers features the same ludicrous stereotypes; upbeat techno music, cyber raves, characters with...

Atrociously acted, poorly scripted and lacking any real scares or tension, my immediate plan after watching Hazard (or Hazmat as it was known in the US) was to lay into it big time. But for some reason, and I’m still not sure why, I actually ended up...

You can choose your friends but you can’t choose your family. If there’s a lesson to be learned from American Heist, it’s that. Well, that and any bank job that relies upon the participation of jittery, nasal, sad giraffe face Adrien Brody is doomed to...

When you hear a film is based on a short story by Leo Tolstoy, perhaps the first reaction is one of dread. The works of Tolstoy are so delicately woven and expansive; the task of taming them in cinematic form is far from easy and has conquered many a fine...

I don’t know about you, but I’ve never been convinced by the concept of the horror anthology. They always seem to be more hit-than-miss, and segments always outstay their welcome. We all want them to be good – witness the hysterical over-reaction...

By Liam Freeman And here we go again – yet another British film that revolves around heists and gangs. Just that simple sentence is often enough to stir up very mixed opinions, meaning that many films that deserve to be shouted about get swept away...

One of the unfortunate side-effects of the whole ‘video nasties’ craze of the 80s was that a whole raft of films gained an element of notoriety and fame they did not deserve. And, in my younger and more impressionable days, I admit I went with the flow...

I know this is a pretty rubbish thing for a supposed ‘film reviewer’ to admit, but there are times when I just can’t come to a conclusion about a film. What that basically means is I can’t quite work out whether or not something I sat through was a...

A real slow-burner that drip feeds the tension until all hell breaks loose in a fiery climax, Can't Come Out To Play is a film that pretty much demands, and for that matter rewards, concentration. A fast-paced gorefest this is most definitely not, but if...

Often in the culture of zombie horror film, there is an abundant emphasis on the physical mechanics of the zombie as relentless monster of instinct, with horror created around the constant threat of this undead horde ripping heroes and heroines into pure...

The tale of a washed up, former star, famous for playing a costumed superhero, making a last desperate bid for relevance and respect by appearing in a pretentious Broadway play, Birdman is a smugly nauseating exercise in meta-storytelling that feels just as...

Alejandro Hidalgo’s intriguing Venezuelan suspense-horror has finally reached home entertainment release, pretty much two years after its homeland release (and a spot at last August's Frightfest). It is one of those films that, the less you know before you...

I think it’s safe to say that at some point of pretty much every review you will read for Beneath, Brit shocker The Descent will be referenced. I know, I know, I’ve just gone and done the same, but the point I want to make is that by shunting in Neil...

In the modern age of near unrestricted access and connectivity, through the marvels of the technological web spun between all of us, bringing us closer to objects of desire that once were seemingly out of reach, a new world of fears have been born. With...

Every now and again comes a film that gives you something you have never seen before. More rare still, is a film that gives you something you’ve never seen before…and is absolutely remarkable. Till Klienert’s Der Samurai is such a rare delight; it is a...

Although he may never have achieved the mainstream recognition his talents probably deserved, there is little doubt in my mind that Lee Van Cleef qualifies as an iconic actor. Whether it be in the likes of The Good, The Bad and the Ugly, or Escape From New...

“We used to look up at the sky and wonder at our place in the stars…Now we just look down and worry about our place in the dirt.” muses Matthew McConaughey early in Interstellar, articulating not just his astronaut-turned-farmer hero Coop’s own...