Movie Reviews

Mother Nature is a bitch! If there’s one lesson we can learn from the movies, it’s that. Go for a walk in the wilderness and you will end up having to use a penknife to hack off the arm you get...

In 1983, Theologian John Hull lost his sight just days before the birth of his first son. Having his entire world transformed by this development, Hull decided the only way he could process this adjustment and...

Baskin revolves around a team of five police officers whose evening is interrupted by a distress call from the rural town of Inceagac, a place haunted by rumours of strange occurrences and secrets. Upon...

Having lost their jobs at a University, paranormal researcher Abby Yates (Melissa McCarthy), and physicist Erin Gilbert (Kristen Wiig) set out to prove that ghosts exist following two mysterious sightings of...

A one-hit literary wunderkind coasting on the 25-year success of his first novel, author Sandy Duffy (Conleth Lee) makes a comfortable living as a TV personality, butting heads on a late-night arts review show...

In a time of tremendous turbulence in the British cultural and political landscape, awareness and comment in our cinema is vital. Even more so perhaps is a cinema that examines our identity, not only in terms...

Waking up from a coma after a devastating, near fatal, head injury, our unnamed protagonist (Tom Sturridge) finds himself a rich man, his lawyer friend Greg (Ed Speleers) having negotiated a massive £8...

Having spent a year collecting favourable reviews on the world festival circuit, one of the more interesting, challenging Brit flicks that played last year’s Edinburgh International Film Festival,...

It’s the End of the World as we know it. Again. But this time, instead of nuclear war, peak oil, disease or zombie apocalypse, the mechanism of our passing has been left rather ambiguous. Women seem to have...

Jealously ensues among a group of models when an aspiring 16-year-old, Jesse (Elle Fanning) takes Los Angeles by storm. Caught up in a fame and youth obsessed industry, both her innocence and vitality are...

Opening with Papa Was A Rolling Stone and a teenaged boy’s midnight wank disturbed by a naked, drug-addled porn star fatally crashing her car through his house before introducing us to it’s two scuzzy...

Not every film that gets made is released. Or deserves to be released. At least not right away. Somewhere, maybe in that warehouse we see at the end of Raiders Of The Lost Ark, there is a high, dusty shelf. On...

A disparate bunch of elite online gamers receive cryptic clues via their smartphones giving them the opportunity to test a new state-of-the-art Virtual Reality game and win a $100,000 cash prize in the...

Having witnessed a murder in an underground concert venue, a punk rock band are held up in a windowless green room. Forced to fight for their survival against a gang of dangerous skinheads led by Neo-Nazi,...

Remake culture is a particularly fascinating realm of modern cinema, particularly in terms of the horror film, the genre that unquestionably features the highest concentration of remakes. Remakes aren’t...

If you’ve ever read anything I’ve ever written, one thing should be abundantly clear – when it comes right down to it, at my dark little heart, I am a bitter, mean-spirited turnip. Sure, every once in...

When an unlikely American pickpocket in Paris, Michael (Game Of Thrones' ill-fated King In The North, Richard Madden), steals the bag belonging to Parisienne gamine Zoe (Charlotte Le Bon) he gets more than...

Laura (Fear The Walking Dead's Alycia Debnam-Carey) unwittingly befriends a mysterious girl from her college class on Facebook only to unfriend her when the relationship turns to stalking. Following the...

Couple In A Hole, Belgian writer/director Tom Geens’ second feature is, well, it’s about a couple who live in a hole. The couple, John (Paul Higgins) and Karen (Kate Dickie), are (formerly) middle class...

Set in a future where technology has failed and mankind has been plunged back into a rural existence of tribal survival, Pandorica follows three warriors of one such tribe as they head out into the wilderness...

Too many characters and too many story strands, it just doesn't know what to focus on.