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 –...

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...

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,...

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...

Imagine they remade The Lavender Hill Mob. But they were all “fackin’ caaaaaants!”  And it’s not funny. In a nutshell, that’s Man On Wire director James Marsh’s King Of Thieves, the...

Incredibly silly, yet great fun and terrific entertainment at the same time, Final Score is practically the very epitome of ‘does what it says on the tin’ moviemaking. You want Dave Bautista taking out...

“GORDON’S ALIVE?” Yes, yes, he is. Nearly 40 years after the film that made and then broke him, filmmaker Lisa Downs goes in search of Saviour of the Universe, Flash Gordon aka Sam J. Jones. The...

By Tony Baker The legend of, and public fascination with, Elvis Presley shows no signs of abating anytime soon. And Presley really is the gift that keeps on giving for music fans, with every year...

An idea so good it’s almost surprising no one’s done it before, Egomaniac director Kate Shenton returns with 8-part web series Netfl!x And Kill, riffing on Gogglebox and The Collector to bring us a...

Adding to the burgeoning cupboard marked ‘sequels nobody actually asked for but here they are anyway’, Escape Plan 2 rolls into UK cinemas with the minimum of fanfare and fuss. Which is all well and...

Hotel Artemis? More like Hotel Artifice! Am I right? Goddamn right I’m right. Not exactly boding well for Starz’s rumored TV show The Continental, which will take us behind the front desk of the luxury...

When suave, hunky and confident gangster Gigi (Matthias Schoenaerts) meets beautiful, strong-willed racecar driver Bibi (Adèle Exarchopoulos) at the racetrack it’s love at first sight in Bullhead and The...

Fleeing their past, four English siblings – Jack (George MacKay), Jane (Mia Goth), Billy (Charlie Heaton) and Sam (Matthew Stagg) - and their ailing mother arrive in the sleepy little town on America’s...

Ten years after escaping the apocalyptic doomsday cult they were raised in, brothers Justin and Aaron (co-writers/directors Justin Benson & Aaron Moorhead) are barely getting by, living a practically...

Frazzled, forty-something mum of three Marlo (Charlize Theron) is a woman on the verge of a nervous breakdown. Perpetually exhausted, she’s already struggling as primary caregiver to daughter Sarah (Lia...

18 movies in 10 years, all the big guns at Marvel team up for the most ambitious and ominous instalment yet.

At some point in their adolescence, every teenager has wished their parents were dead. Rather than summon a demon straight from Hell however most of us just retreated to our rooms for a weep and a wank,...

It’s Spring Break Bitches! But rather than purchase some pink balaclavas and embark on a drug and sex-fuelled crime spree with a cornrowed sleazebag gangsta, good girl Olivia (Lucy Hale) and her cookie...

Released in the UK just in time for Easter, Lion director Garth Davis’ Mary Magdalene offers us a po-faced, would-be-feminist revisionist, New Age Passion Play that seeks to rehabilitate one of the New...

When a mysterious radio signal, beamed across the galaxy, is received by a human, but wholly alien civilisation, two scientists are selected to investigate the source of the transmission.  The products of...

I think we can all agree that streaming services are becoming increasingly important for the film industry. We're talking about Netflix, of course, the rental service that has, over the years, grown into a...