4.5 Short Film Review: MAB Simon Fitzjohn November 2, 2017 Editor's Choice, Movie Reviews 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...
2.0 Movie Review: BASE David Watson October 29, 2017 Movie Reviews 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...
4.0 Movie Review: Brawl In Cell Block 99 David Watson October 20, 2017 Editor's Choice, Movie Reviews 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...
4.0 Movie Review: In Between David Watson September 27, 2017 Movie Reviews 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...
4.0 Movie Review: Kills On Wheels David Watson September 15, 2017 Movie Reviews 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...
4.0 Movie Review: It Sophie Elizabeth September 14, 2017 Editor's Choice, Movie Reviews 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...
3.0 Movie Review: The Vault David Watson September 7, 2017 Editor's Choice, Movie Reviews 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...
4.0 Short Film Review: Jitterman Simon Fitzjohn September 5, 2017 Movie Reviews 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...
4.0 Movie Review: Bushwick David Watson August 23, 2017 Movie Reviews 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....
4.0 Short Film Review: Stolen Simon Fitzjohn August 18, 2017 Editor's Choice, Movie Reviews 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...
3.5 Movie Review: Atomic Blonde Sophie Elizabeth August 11, 2017 Editor's Choice, Movie Reviews 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...
5.0 Movie Review: A Ghost Story David Watson August 9, 2017 Editor's Choice, Movie Reviews 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...
5.0 Movie Review: Land Of Mine David Watson August 4, 2017 Editor's Choice, Movie Reviews 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...
5.0 Movie Review: Dunkirk Sophie Elizabeth August 1, 2017 Editor's Choice, Movie Reviews 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...
4.0 Movie Review: Scribe David Watson July 18, 2017 Movie Reviews After an alcoholic nervous breakdown at work, middle aged, mild-mannered accountant Duval (François Cluzet) finds himself unemployed and unemployable. Two years later, he’s living an almost monastic...
4.0 Movie Review: David Lynch – The Art Life David Watson July 14, 2017 Editor's Choice, Movie Reviews A visionary director and true artist of the form, things have been a bit quiet on the cinematic front from David Lynch for the last decade or so. Sure, he's been banging the drum for the joys and benefits...
5.0 Movie Review: Song To Song David Watson July 10, 2017 Movie Reviews It’s become almost a sport to hate Terrence Malick, to mock him, to dismiss him as a parody of his own reclusive, enigmatic image, his films nothing more than pretentious, philosophical wool-gathering. For...
4.0 Movie Review: Spider-Man: Homecoming Sophie Elizabeth July 8, 2017 Editor's Choice, Movie Reviews Following his cameo with the Avengers in Civil War, a young Peter Parker (Tom Holland) returns home under the supervision of Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr). Struggling to adapt to a normal routine, Peter is...
5.0 Movie Review: Baby Driver Sophie Elizabeth July 2, 2017 Editor's Choice, Movie Reviews Baby (Ansel Elgort) decides to leave his life of crime behind when he meets the love of his life, Debora (Lily James). However, being the best in the business causes problems for Baby when his crime lord boss,...
3.5 Movie Review: All Eyez On Me Guest Writer June 28, 2017 Editor's Choice, Movie Reviews By Lillie Almond All Eyez on Me, a biopic about Tupac Shakur, follows his rise to fame, his highs and lows, his time with Death Row Records, and some intimate facets of his love life. By taking you on so...
4.0 Movie Review: A Good Day To Die, Hoka Hey David Watson June 27, 2017 Movie Reviews "Hoka hey!" It's a commonly held misconception popularised by Buffalo Bill and his travelling show, by dime novels and B-movies, by the organic mythology of the Old West, that this Sioux saying that Crazy...