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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Wow, just where do I start on a review of MAB? Do I wax lyrical about it being a ‘folksy’ horror that practically bubbles with menace, playing with an audience’s imagination and expectations like a...

For globe-trotting playboy wastrel JC (Alexander Polli) and best bud Chico (Carlos Briceno Schutte) life is one endless party. Rock stars of the BASE jumping community, they roam the world, visiting iconic...

After a drug deal with Mexican gangster Eleazar (Dion Mucciacito) and his trigger-happy goons turns messily violent, stoic, principled drug runner Bradley Thomas (Vince Vaughn) is forced to kill one of his...

Empowered Muslim lawyer Leila (Mouna Hawa) and lesbian Christian DJ Salma (Sana Jammelieh) share a flat and a party-girl lifestyle, rejecting the patriarchal strictures of their respective traditions in favour...

Two young disabled men working together on their own comic book, wheelchair user Zoli (Zoltán Fenyvesi) and Barba (Adám Fekete) who has cerebral palsy, find life imitating art and their lives turned upside...

In the Summer of 1989 in the small town of Derry, Maine, children are disappearing under mysterious circumstances. Knowing the culprit to be an evil, shapeshifting clown, seven young misfits (known as the...

Estranged sisters Leah (Francesca Eastwood) and Vee (Taryn Manning) are forced to put aside their simmering resentment when brother Michael (Scott Haze) screws up and finds himself owing a lot of money to some...

Moving on from co-directing wildly entertaining ‘haunted house’ chiller The Tour, writer/director Alex Mathieson returns to the short film format with new shocker Jitterman. And what a treat he’s...

Bringing her boyfriend home to meet the grandmother who raised her, it seems like a normal day for college student Lucy (Brittany Snow) as she steps off the subway train in Brooklyn’s Bushwick neighbourhood....

Ramping up the mind games, while throwing in some impressive bloodshed for good measure, writer/director Damon Rickard returns with his latest effective short, Stolen. Bigger, and arguably better, than his...

Lorraine Broughton (Charlize Theron) is an elite spy working in MI6 during the Cold War. Following the murder of a fellow agent, she is sent to Berlin to retrieve a valuable dossier containing sensitive...

A Ghost Story is a hard film to review but a deceptively easy one to summarise. A young couple, C (Casey Affleck) and M (Rooney Mara) live and love in a small rented house in smallish town Texas. A musician...

History is always written by the victors. It’s a sad fact but war crimes are only ever the preserve of the losing side. In the Summer of 1945, at the close of the Second World War, the Western coastline...

Told from the perspective of land, air and sea in June 1940, 400,000 British and French troops are stranded on the beaches of Dunkirk. With the enemy closing in and attacking from the air, the clock is ticking...