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...

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...

“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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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...