Movie Reviews

In recent years, the horror genre has moved towards a particular kind of style, especially in relation to supernatural thrillers, that arguably defines this generation. The style in question is the much...

“When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.” – The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, 1962, dir. John Ford. Quentin Tarantino is a filmmaker deeply concerned with legend. That is the legend of cinema;...

Hector McAdam (Peter Mullan) is making his way from Scotland to London for his annual visit to the Christmas homeless shelter. Having disappeared 17 years ago, leaving his family behind, he decides to stop off...

It’s 1957 and as American children learn to Duck And Cover in the classroom, the Cold War stalemate between the West and the Soviets threatens to heat up at any moment, both sides poised with their fingers...

A rural folk-horror that starts off strongly before losing its way in a mess of gooey effects, The Hallow really feels like a missed opportunity. It’s still an entertaining watch, don’t get me wrong,...

“You can choose your friends but you can’t choose your family!” As sayings go, it’s one my mother has always been fond of quoting, normally when an aunt or a cousin does something particularly...

By Chris Kenworthy Spectre - even saying the name brings a chill to the spine, makes a few hairs stand on end on the back of your neck. The film is cleverly built, from start to finish, around the story and...

By Ben Winkley Kids. Awful things. Who needs 'em? If they're not filling up the bus with their noise their parents are flooding your facebook with their oh-so-endearing antics. Kids in films? Even worse....

As Maud Watts, played by the captivating Carey Mulligan, turns to her husband in bed and asks, ‘if we had a daughter, what kind of life would she have had?’ I felt a pang of resonance with the fictional...

There’s a distinct level of uneasiness that comes with settling down to watch something put together by somebody you know personally. How do you break it to them if you didn’t think it was that good?...

When the two criminal empires that rule England’s gangland, John Claridge’s (Bernard Hill) Northern gang and Vic Clarke’s (Steven Berkoff) Southern mob, meet to bury the hatchet and discuss a fragile...

American travel writer and humourist, Bill Bryson (Robert Redford) decides to reconnect with his homeland by embarking on his first hike in nearly thirty years. Joined by an old friend, Katz (Nick Nolte), the...

In debt to some Russian gangsters BFFs and luckless douchebags Ajay (Ray Panthaki) and Shaan (Adeel Akhtar) have just one night to raise the money or else...well, that part was left kinda vague but these are...

William Shakespeare’s Macbeth is the story of a fearless warrior and inspiring leader who descends into madness as a result of his tyrannical ways. Director Justin Kurzel has created a thrilling yet somewhat...

Based on the true events of a 1996 disaster, Everest follows a team of adventurers led by experienced climber, Rob Hall (Jason Clarke) on their quest to summit Mount Everest. Hit by an unexpected snow storm,...

In the 23rd century, space travel is a thing of the past, replaced by the far quicker and cheaper ‘slipstreaming’, allowing our descendants to commute daily halfway across the solar system, teleporting in...

“I see dead people.” Remember that little kid from The Sixth Sense? Imagine he grew up. Imagine he still saw dead people. Imagine no one believed him. And imagine he grew up into a filthy,...

Estranged from his family and forced to live in a grotty tower block on a crumbling estate, struggling artist Mark (Lee Ross) is having a bad day. His alarm doesn’t go off. The power is out. The milk’s...

Based on the book, The Profession of Violence: The Rise and Fall of the Kray Twins by John Pearson, Legend explores the lives of notorious British gangster twins, Ronald and Reginald Kray (both played by...

In the wake of their mutual childhood friend Flora’s suicide and still haunted by something very, very bad that happened (that they did…) to Flora when they were kids, drug-addled hipster party girl...

It's 1986 in Compton, Los Angeles and an unlikely group of youths form a successful hip hop group by the name of NWA - a group that will revolutionise the genre forever. With different musical abilities,...