Movie Reviews

There’s stupid – and then there is Fantasy Island. A ham-fisted, nonsensical, bewildering mess of a film, seeing this mere days after Blumhouse’s stunning The Invisible Man left me wondering what...

One of the beauties of the horror genre is its canny ability to reinvent itself, time and time again. Sure, the genre is awash with sequels, retreads and reboots that do nothing more than slavishly follow...

So poor they live in a subterranean hovel that regularly floods or fills with toxic fumes courtesy of the local exterminators, the Kim family live desperate lives, working low-paid, menial jobs to try and get...

Gang raped and left for dead, her husband and baby murdered, when the local authorities refuse to take action against the gang of soldiers responsible, Irish convict Claire (Aisling Franciosi) swears...

In the medieval town of Seaside (nowhere near the sea), puppeteers Professor Punch (Damon Herriman) and his wife Judy (Mia Wasikowska) are a sensation, their rowdy theatre show playing to packed audiences who...

Cute-as-a-button flibbertigibbet Kate (Emilia Clarke), a talented singer with West End dreams who just can’t seem to catch a break, is stuck in something of a rut. Adrift in London, she’s sofa...

Arguably one of the best film’s at this year’s FrightFest, it’s Closing Night film Abner Pastoll’s A Good Woman Is Hard To Find feels even more ferocious now that it’s being released just in time...

As a lover of film, as well as a critic of sorts, there can be very few more frustrating things than sitting through a film that has plenty to offer – and clear talent on display – but that just doesn’t...

An orphan who’s bounced from foster home to foster home while growing up, Grace’s (Samara Weaving) dreams of being part of a loving family seem finally to be coming true when she finally marries Alex...

Released back in 1979, Alien represented as much of a seismic shift in sci-fi and horror cinema as Jaws and Star Wars did to the Summer Blockbuster or the French New Wave did to the Movie Brat generation,...

When she can’t get in touch with her divorced, estranged father, Dave (Barry Pepper), as a massive hurricane batters Florida, college swimming champ (pay attention, that’ll prove important!) Haley (Kaya...

The titular “Good Boys” are the Beanbag Boys (so called because they hang out and sit on beanbags, obvs…), Max (Room’s Jacob Tremblay), foul-mouthed Thor (Brady Noon) and sensitive Lucas (Keith L....

During a prestigious Russian naval training exercise, an accident with a faulty torpedo causes a massive explosion that sinks the "unsinkable" pride of the fleet, nuclear submarine the Kursk, killing all but...

When polar fracking tips the Earth of its axis, the ordinary citizens of quiet Pennsylvanian small town Centerville find that not only are the days getting longer but the dead are rising from their graves...

When casino worker and amateur rodeo queen Jane (Eiza González) disappears, her best friend, local diner waitress Heidi (Lucy Fry) is the only person in their hardscrabble New Mexico town who even seems to...

Stockholm Syndrome noun “feelings of trust or affection felt in many cases of kidnapping or hostage-taking by a victim towards a captor.” Loosely based on the Norrmalmstorg bank...

Marooned in the unforgiving, deadly Arctic wilderness after his plane crashes, stranded pilot Overgard (Mads Mikkelson) ekes out a desperate existence, his every waking moment a battle for survival as he...

Hyped to the max (certainly if you subscribe to Sky Movies here in the UK), Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil And Vile finally arrives on the big (and small) screen, promising a fresh look at the story of...

Bish… Bosh… Bash… Wallop! “’AVE SOME OF THAT YOU FACKIN’ CAAAAAN’T!” Rip… Tear… Slash… Stab! “I’M GONNA KILL YOU, YOU DIRTY FACKIN’...

Space really is the final frontier in writer/director team Christopher Caldwell and Zeek Earl’s audaciously lo-fi Sci-Fi/Western Prospect. Dragged around the galaxy by her fortune-hunting father Damon...

How long can you hold your breath? Breathing is a reflex action. It’s automatic. We do it unconsciously, without thinking, about 19,000 times a day. It’s natural.  When we breathe in, our lungs...