1.5 Movie Review: The Mummy Matthew Hammond June 26, 2017 Movie Reviews “I have less and less respect for them …I think they don’t even do what they do very well anymore.” – Maggie Renzi, The Story of Film This quote truly encapsulates the hard truth that the corpse...
4.0 Movie Review: Wonder Woman Sophie Elizabeth June 1, 2017 Movie Reviews Once the Princess of the Amazons, Diana (Gal Gadot) looks back on her past as an unstoppable warrior. However, when a warplane carrying an American spy (Chris Pine) crash lands on her hidden island, she learns...
3.0 Movie Review: The Shepherd (El Pastor) David Watson May 30, 2017 Movie Reviews Solitary but content, middle-aged local shepherd Anselmo (Miguel Martin) lives alone in a shack just outside of town with his dog Pillo. It’s a tough but rewarding existence - Anselmo spending long days...
1.0 Movie Review: Spaceship David Watson May 15, 2017 Movie Reviews Still mourning the mysterious drowning/possible suicide of her mother, teenage cyber-goth Lucidia (Alexa Davies) mooches around Aldershot with her cyber-goth friends doing cyber-goth things, which seem to...
4.0 Movie Review: The Levelling David Watson May 9, 2017 Movie Reviews After the sudden and suspicious death of her brother Harry, young trainee vet Clover (Ellie Kendrick) returns to the Somerset family cattle farm and the man she thought she’d escaped years ago; her...
3.0 Movie Review: Letters From Baghdad David Watson April 25, 2017 Movie Reviews There’s a great film to be made about the life of Gertrude Bell. Born in 1868 to a wealthy family able to fund her education and adventures, at 17, Bell read history at Oxford (one of the few subjects...
4.0 Movie Review: Man Down David Watson April 2, 2017 Movie Reviews In the ruins of a post-apocalyptic America, former marine, Gabriel Drummer (a beefed-up Shia LaBeouf), still traumatised by his experiences serving in Afghanistan, searches for his missing wife (Kate Mara) and...
4.0 Movie Review: The Void David Watson March 30, 2017 Movie Reviews After a massacre at an isolated farmhouse, a disparate group of 80's stereotypes (the reluctant hero cop with "issues", his ex-wife, an arsey student nurse, a pregnant girl and her protective grandfather, the...
3.5 Movie Review: Don’t Knock Twice David Watson March 30, 2017 Editor's Choice, Movie Reviews After putting her in foster care as a child, successful artist and recovered drug addict Jess (Katee Sackhoff) is desperate to build some bridges with her now full-grown, stroppy teenage daughter Chloe (Lucy...
2.0 Movie Review: The Lost City Of Z David Watson March 27, 2017 Movie Reviews James Gray is a genius. He must be. Everyone says so. Since sloping onto the arthouse scene in 1995 with the comically melancholy Russian Jewish shoegazing hitman drama Little Odessa and earning a Silver Bear...
5.0 Movie Review: The Eyes Of My Mother David Watson March 24, 2017 Editor's Choice, Movie Reviews SPOILERS CONTAINED IN THIS REVIEW “Loneliness can do strange things to the mind.” Few films leave me breathless. Shocked. Speechless. Unsettled. Disturbed. Like I’ve been filled top-to-toe with...
4.0 Movie Review: Get Out Sophie Elizabeth March 23, 2017 Editor's Choice, Movie Reviews When Chris (Daniel Kaluuya) visits his girlfriend's parents for the first time, he is very quickly made aware of a large elephant in the room. As an African American, he is made to feel increasingly...
4.0 Movie Review: Seoul Station David Watson March 16, 2017 Editor's Choice, Movie Reviews More of an equal than a prequel or sequel, the events it depicts occurring simultaneously, Sang-ho Yeon's gritty animation Seoul Station charts at ground-level the runaway brushfire of the zombie apocalypse...
4.0 Movie Review: The Love Witch David Watson March 13, 2017 Editor's Choice, Movie Reviews Recovering from a broken heart and a nervous breakdown, sexy lovelorn witch Elaine (Samantha Robinson) relocates to a small town in Northern California intent on starting a new life up among the Redwoods...
3.0 Movie Review: 3 Dead Trick Or Treaters Matthew Hammond February 18, 2017 Movie Reviews The anthology film has enjoyed a resurgence in modern horror cinema, with the likes of ABCs of Death, Holidays and VHS channelling the classic portmanteau through a lens of decisively contemporary traumas and...
4.0 Movie Review: The LEGO Batman Movie Sophie Elizabeth February 10, 2017 Editor's Choice, Movie Reviews With big changes on the horizon from the new Commissioner of Gotham City (Rosario Dawson), there's not much room for a lone vigilante. Finding himself unfulfilled and alone in his island mansion, Batman (Will...
3.0 Movie Review: Toni Erdmann David Watson February 6, 2017 Movie Reviews When his beloved dog dies, aging hippy piano teacher Winfried (Peter Simonischek) decides to pay his estranged 30-something daughter, corporate high-flyer Ines (Sandra Hüller), an impromptu visit in an...
4.0 Movie Review: The White King David Watson January 27, 2017 Movie Reviews 1 Comment What a difference a year makes. Well, half a year. This isn’t what I was originally going to write about The White King. Not at all. I first saw husband-and-wife team Alex Helfrecht and Jorg...
3.5 Movie Review: Gold Sophie Elizabeth January 27, 2017 Editor's Choice, Movie Reviews Kenny Wells (Matthew McConaughey) is a prospector down on his luck. Having teamed up with a similarly eager geologist (Edgar Ramírez), the pair travel to the uncharted jungle of Indonesia in search of gold....
4.0 Movie Review 2: Rogue One – A Star Wars Story Chris Faers December 15, 2016 Editor's Choice, Movie Reviews As Disney’s new blank chequebook hits cinemas, there’s a sense of optimism around Rogue One. The Force Awakens put to rest any and all fears the masses may have had lingering from George Lucas’ toy...
4.5 Movie Review: Rogue One: A Star Wars Story Colin D Miller December 15, 2016 Editor's Choice, Movie Reviews I’ll be honest, I chickened out of reviewing The Force Awakens last year. As a huge Star Wars fan, I felt that I could not write a balanced and fair review. After the prequels, I had many concerns, but after...