5.0 Movie Review: Prospect David Watson April 10, 2019 Editor's Choice, Movie Reviews 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...
4.0 Movie Review: Last Breath David Watson April 5, 2019 Editor's Choice, Movie Reviews 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...
3.5 Movie Review: Eaten By Lions David Watson April 1, 2019 Editor's Choice, Movie Reviews 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)...
2.0 Movie Review: The Prodigy Dan Mayhew March 27, 2019 Editor's Choice, Movie Reviews 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...
3.0 Movie Review: A Trip To The Moon David Watson March 25, 2019 Movie Reviews 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...
3.0 Movie Review: Border David Watson March 7, 2019 Editor's Choice, Movie Reviews 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...
3.5 Movie Review: Cold Pursuit David Watson February 23, 2019 Editor's Choice, Movie Reviews 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...
5.0 Movie Review: Destroyer David Watson January 23, 2019 Editor's Choice, Movie Reviews “Brave”… “Brave” is what film critics call it when an actress pushes her boundaries and uglies herself up to play the kind of role Christian Bale or Leonardo DiCaprio or Russell Crowe take as...
3.5 Movie Review: Glass Casey Evans January 20, 2019 Editor's Choice, Movie Reviews Concluding the 'Unbreakable' Trilogy of films by M. Night Shyamalan, it is hard to imagine anyone heading to Glass without having seen Unbreakable and/or Split. If, for some reason you have not, it is...
4.0 Movie Review: The Old Man & The Gun David Watson December 6, 2018 Editor's Choice, Movie Reviews Forrest Tucker (Robert Redford) is a helluva nice guy. Just ask any of the staff and patrons of the banks he robs. 70 years old and refusing to go quietly into that good night, gentleman thief and escape...
4.0 Movie Review: All The Devil’s Men David Watson December 3, 2018 Editor's Choice, Movie Reviews 1 Comment A former Navy SEAL-turned-black ops specialist, Jack Collins (Milo Gibson) tracks and assassinates terrorists for the CIA, handling the jobs that are too hot for official sanction, terminating with extreme...
3.5 Movie Review: Daddy’s Girl David Watson November 26, 2018 Movie Reviews Sub-text is everything. Horror, the best horror, has always reflected the times we live in. In the ‘40s and ‘50s, the spectre of Hiroshima loomed over the likes of Godzilla and Them! our nuclear sins...
4.0 Movie Review: Assassination Nation David Watson November 21, 2018 Editor's Choice, Movie Reviews Social media sex scandals, poisonous gossip, cyber bullying, toxic masculinity, paranoia and hysteria unite with deadly results in Sam Levinson’s post-modern millennial riff on the Salem Witch Hunt,...
5.0 Movie Review: Suspiria David Watson November 19, 2018 Editor's Choice, Movie Reviews Remakes. Remakes are tricky. We live in a risk averse world of franchise filmmaking, of reboots and remakes, of sequels and prequels. There’s nothing the Dream Factory likes better than a known quantity, a...
2.0 Movie Review: Siberia Casey Evans November 12, 2018 Editor's Choice, Movie Reviews Siberia is a romantic crime thriller directed by Matthew Ross, who also wrote and directed the 2016 film, Frank and Lola. Keanu Reeves stars as American diamond trader Lucas Hill, who after his partner...
4.0 Movie Review: Welcome Home Jake Sapsford November 9, 2018 Movie Reviews Let’s cut to the chase - Welcome Home proves to be a pleasant surprise. Gripping, full of exciting twists, turns and unpredictability, while even managing moments of humour. The premise of the film...
4.0 Movie Review: Columbus David Watson October 14, 2018 Movie Reviews When his academic/architect father collapses during a lecture tour, Korean-American translator Jin (John Cho) finds himself marooned in the titular city as his comatose parent hovers on the brink of death....
4.0 Movie Review: Halloween Simon Fitzjohn October 12, 2018 Editor's Choice, Movie Reviews Ever since word first surfaced that a new entry was planned in the Halloween saga, I have found myself more nervous than I can ever remember about a film’s release. The info kept dripping through –...
4.0 Movie Review: The Super Guest Writer October 11, 2018 Movie Reviews By Jake Sapsford ‘The Super’ is a horror/thriller which not only kept me gripped throughout, but also gave me one hell of a surprise at the end. The movie begins with an eerie and creepy atmosphere...
4.0 Movie Review: The Captain David Watson September 18, 2018 Movie Reviews In the dying days of World War 2, hunted by his comrades and the military police, terrified young German deserter Willi Herold (Max Hubacher) stumbles across an abandoned officer’s uniform and, freezing,...
2.0 Movie Review: Strange Nature Simon Fitzjohn September 13, 2018 Movie Reviews OK, I’ll cut to the chase here. When I get a press release asking me to check out a screener for a film billed as mutant frogs versus a former wrestler, veteran character actor Stephen Tobolowsky and Lisa...