Movie Reviews

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...

When the grandmother who’s raised them dies (their parents having inexplicably died when their hot air balloon crashed and they were eaten, well, by lions…), orphaned half-brothers Omar (Antonio Aakeel)...

Imagine a horror film written by a movie writing robot governed by the following instructions – 1) “Child genius is possessed by a dead serial killer”. 2) Must have a great score. 3) Cliché-o-meter...

Obsessed with the Moon and Apollo 11’s mission to it, geeky young outsider Tomas (Angelo Mutti Spinetta) yearns for his sexy older neighbour Iris (Angela Torres) who he glimpses through his telescope while...

Squat and stocky, with her heavy brow and practically Neanderthal features, Swedish customs officer Tina (Eva Melander) may be a figure of fun to some of the travelers passing through the border ferry...

Imagine Homer Simpson’s snowplough-driving alter ego Mr Plow was mad as Hell and wasn’t going to take it anymore, turning vigilante to clean up the streets and accidentally kicking off a Yojimbo-style mob...