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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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...

Remember Hostel? Where poor tourists are abducted and cut up in various fun but creepy and bloody ways? Then you don't need to watch Kidnap Capital, its timid little brother. I've seen some great reviews...

Set in the year 1926, writer Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne) arrives in New York having returned from a global adventure documenting an extraordinary array of magical creatures. However, Newt's fantastical...

Physically and psychologically scarred after a brutal attack, agoraphobic music journalist Andrew (Interstellar’s David Gyasi) lives a solitary existence, hermetically sealed in his high-rise flat, never...

After he is almost killed by an escaped psychopath, police detective Takakura (Hidetoshi Nishijima) gives up his career in Tokyo to become a university lecturer, teaching criminal psychology. But when he and...

Based on the novel released in 2011 by Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children tells the story of Jake, a teenager that just doesn’t fit in. Early on in the film Jake’s grandfather,...

Based on true events in Mississippi 1862, a farmer and medic for the Confederate Army, Newton Knight (Matthew McConaughey), flees his position which brands him an enemy of the State. Opposed to slavery and...

Based on true events in 1986, federal agent Robert Mazur (Bryan Cranston) must go undercover to infiltrate a money-laundering scheme led by infamous drug lord, Pablo Escobar. Posing as a wealthy businessman,...

“Nobody is who you imagine them to be. We are probably a bit of a mystery even to ourselves.  In the end what matters is how many marks you’ve left behind.” Someone trying to leave as few marks...

I think it's fair to say I have never walked out of a cinema and thought: "Wow. Turkey basters should be used in films more often", but that's exactly what happened after Don't Breathe.  Director Fede...

Having moved out of the city, a young reprobate by the name of Ricky Baker (Julian Dennison) and his reluctant foster father, Hec (Sam Neill), finds themselves at the centre of a ruthless manhunt after they...