4.0 Movie Review: 7500 Simon Fitzjohn June 22, 2020 Editor's Choice, Movie Reviews Taking the well-worn ‘terrorists on a plane’ format but giving it at more thoughtful slant rather than gung-ho action heroics, 7500 (debuting on Amazon Prime) is a welcome return to the screen for Joseph...
3.0 Movie Review: Driven Simon Fitzjohn June 15, 2020 Movie Reviews Basically a genre take on Michael Mann’s Collateral (with a very big twist and a ton of comedy), Driven is one of those movies that gets by on sheer verve. Tongue in cheek, but with plenty of heart,...
3.5 Movie Review: A Little More Flesh Matthew Hammond June 5, 2020 Editor's Choice, Movie Reviews In A Little More Flesh, director Sam Ashurst pushes his metatextual technique to explore the behaviour and brutality of male abuse and rape culture through a twisted blend of critique and horror. Like his...
4.0 Movie Review: We Summon The Darkness Simon Fitzjohn April 14, 2020 Editor's Choice, Movie Reviews Tapping into the current 80s nostalgia craze but going down the route of the ‘Satanic Panic’ hysteria rather than neon colours and arcade games, We Summon The Darkness is a bloody blast of fun. Throw...
2.0 Movie Review: Fantasy Island Simon Fitzjohn March 9, 2020 Editor's Choice, 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...
4.5 Movie Review: The Invisible Man Simon Fitzjohn March 6, 2020 Editor's Choice, Movie Reviews 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...
5.0 Movie Review: Parasite David Watson February 4, 2020 Editor's Choice, Movie Reviews 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...
5.0 Movie Review: The Nightingale David Watson November 25, 2019 Editor's Choice, Movie Reviews 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...
4.0 Movie Review: Judy & Punch David Watson November 22, 2019 Editor's Choice, Movie Reviews 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...
2.0 Movie Review: Last Christmas David Watson November 15, 2019 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...
4.0 Movie Review: A Good Woman Is Hard To Find David Watson October 28, 2019 Editor's Choice, Movie Reviews 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...
3.0 Movie Review: The Village In The Woods Simon Fitzjohn October 10, 2019 Editor's Choice, Movie Reviews 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...
4.0 Movie Review: Ready Or Not David Watson September 23, 2019 Editor's Choice, Movie Reviews 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...
4.0 Movie Review: Memory – The Origins Of Alien David Watson September 4, 2019 Editor's Choice, Movie Reviews 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,...
4.0 Movie Review: Crawl David Watson September 4, 2019 Editor's Choice, Movie Reviews 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...
4.0 Movie Review: Good Boys David Watson August 14, 2019 Editor's Choice, Movie Reviews 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....
4.0 Movie Review: Kursk – The Last Misson David Watson July 15, 2019 Editor's Choice, Movie Reviews 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...
1.0 Movie Review: The Dead Don’t Die David Watson July 15, 2019 Editor's Choice, Movie Reviews 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...
3.0 Movie Review: She’s Missing David Watson July 8, 2019 Editor's Choice, Movie Reviews 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...
4.0 Movie Review: The Captor David Watson June 18, 2019 Editor's Choice, Movie Reviews 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...
4.0 Movie Review: Arctic David Watson May 10, 2019 Editor's Choice, Movie Reviews 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...