2.0 Movie Review: King Of Thieves David Watson September 12, 2018 Editor's Choice, Movie Reviews 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...
3.0 Movie Review: Final Score Simon Fitzjohn September 10, 2018 Editor's Choice, Movie Reviews 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...
3.0 Movie Review: Life After Flash David Watson August 20, 2018 Editor's Choice, Movie Reviews “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...
5.0 Movie Review: Elvis – ’68 Comeback Special Guest Writer August 17, 2018 Movie Reviews 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...
5.0 Review: Netfl!x And Kill David Watson August 4, 2018 Editor's Choice, Movie Reviews 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...
2.0 Movie Review: Escape Plan 2 Simon Fitzjohn July 23, 2018 Editor's Choice, Movie Reviews 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...
2.0 Movie Review: Hotel Artemis David Watson July 23, 2018 Editor's Choice, Movie Reviews 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...
3.5 Movie Review: Racer And The Jailbird (La Fidele) David Watson July 16, 2018 Movie Reviews 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...
2.0 Movie Review: The Secret Of Marrowbone David Watson July 16, 2018 Editor's Choice, Movie Reviews 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...
5.0 Movie Review: The Endless David Watson June 25, 2018 Editor's Choice, Movie Reviews 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...
4.0 Movie Review: Tully David Watson May 5, 2018 Editor's Choice, Movie Reviews 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...
4.5 Movie Review: Avengers: Infinity War Colin D Miller April 26, 2018 Editor's Choice, Movie Reviews 18 movies in 10 years, all the big guns at Marvel team up for the most ambitious and ominous instalment yet.
2.5 Movie Review: Pyewacket David Watson April 22, 2018 Editor's Choice, Movie Reviews 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,...
3.0 Movie Review: Truth Or Dare David Watson April 18, 2018 Editor's Choice, Movie Reviews 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...
2.5 Movie Review: Mary Magdalene David Watson March 15, 2018 Movie Reviews 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...
4.0 Movie Review: Native David Watson February 27, 2018 Editor's Choice, Movie Reviews 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...
Movie Review: Bright Simon Fitzjohn February 27, 2018 Movie Reviews 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...
2.5 Movie Review: The Mercy David Watson February 8, 2018 Editor's Choice, Movie Reviews You know how it is. You wait decades for a movie about doomed amateur yachtsman and conman Donald Crowhurst and then two come along at once. Still to find a release date, we can look forward to Simon...
4.0 Movie Review: The Commuter David Watson January 18, 2018 Editor's Choice, Movie Reviews Despite Liam Neeson’s threats to retire from being everyone’s favourite superannuated action man, The Commuter proves there’s ludicrous life in the old brawler yet, reuniting Neeson with his Unknown and...
5.0 Book Review: Yuletide Terror Simon Fitzjohn January 11, 2018 Editor's Choice, Movie Reviews Spectacular Optical have done it again with their latest offering, which takes on the far-from-easy task of attempting to drag together all (or as many as they could find at least) the horrific big and...
4.0 Short Film Review: The Quiet Zone Simon Fitzjohn November 17, 2017 Movie Reviews Short, sharp and brutally effective, writer/director Andrew Ionides’ The Quiet Zone is a lesson in taking a simple concept and maxing it out to its full potential. After all, it riffs on a scenario most...