Movie Reviews

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.

In the early hours, hungover and afflicted by existential ennui, Hollywood wunderkind Thomas (Garrett Hedlund playing the kind of terminally cool, critically feted actor/director/artist filmmaking polymath...

Michelle (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) wakes up in an underground bunker with two men, believing herself to being held captive by Howard (John Goodman). She soon learns that America has come under an apocalyptic...

In the golden Hollywood era, Eddie Mannix (Josh Brolin) works hard to cover up all of Capitol Pictures' studio scandals. As if dealing with disgruntled directors and bloodthirsty gossip columnists wasn't...

The horror genre is a deep well of emotion and stimulus, one that filmmakers dredge to conjure an experience directly focused on striking at our deepest fears and anxiety; at times for catharsis…and others...

Ballardian /ˌbæladiən/ adjective of James Graham Ballard (1930–2009), the British novelist, or his works   resembling or suggestive of the conditions described in Ballard's novels and...

Following the tale of two children whose world is suddenly thrown into doubt and chaos, Goodnight Mommy is an enigma. A beautifully composed piece, but also flawed in its composition; terrifying at times…but...

Awards season each year brings a field of esteemed productions, marked by the presence of cinema’s most accomplished directors, actors and writers, or touching on stories that are vitally important socially...