Movie Reviews

Winner of the 2015 Sundance Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl is the story of Greg Gaines (Thomas Mann), an awkward high school senior whose mom forces him to spend time...

It is the peak of the Cold War and tensions and hostilities following World War II are high. American CIA agent, Napoleon Solo (Henry Cavill) and the Russian KGB's Ilya Kuryakin (Armie Hammer) find themselves...

‘Gore Orphanage’s writer and producer Cody Knotts had already told me the movie was a mixture of a local legend and the story of British schoolgirl-turned-murderess Mary Bell, so I had a very good idea who...

Amy (Amy Schumer) is a promiscuous, commitment-phobic career woman who is forced to face her fears of settling down when she meets a genuinely good guy. Having been made to write a feature on a talented young...

Based on actual events, True Story follows an ambitious and successful writer of the New York Times, Michael Finkel (Jonah Hill). Having been fired when it is revealed one of his articles is a fabrication,...

The spy game is a tough one. Spending your time lost in the wilderness of mirrors ages you. These days, old spies don’t so much come in from the cold as get put out to pasture, replaced by younger, nimbler...

Carly's rock-star boyfriend Brad has had a breakdown. Although Carly doesn’t realise it, Brad has stopped taking his medication and is experiencing vivid flashbacks of a brutal childhood. He is also secretly...

Fifty, friendless and in thrall to his foul-mouthed domineering mother, things couldn’t get much worse for Barney Thomson (Robert Carlyle). Once Bridgeton’s top barber, he lacks the banter and small talk...

In the aftermath of a zombie pandemic, farmer Wade (Arnold Schwarzenegger) discovers his eldest daughter, teenager Maggie (Abigail Breslin) is among the infected, detained in a city hospital, the festering...

When a young American girl called Audrey (Dana Jamison) arrives in the Philippines to hunt down the mythical kingdom of the Diwata (a race of Gods who weave stories that manipulate the fates of man) she...

The vogue for found footage, teen friendly horror has been a mainstay of the horror genre ever since Blair Witch burst into the zeitgeist, and over the years, with the likes of the Paranormal Activity series,...

I often get strange looks when I proclaim that some of the best horror films are hilarious. Of course, those who are familiar with all things horror will know that this is entirely possible. Not so bad it's...

In the annals of modern horror, one (unexpected) franchise has drawn more revulsion, confusion, downright disgust, and a strange little place in the 21st zeitgeist above all others: The Human Centipede. Yes,...

If there’s two things I love, its romance and zombies. A weird mix I know, but you can at least now imagine how much I love a comedy zom-rom. Comedy and classic horror go hand in hand in Joe Dante’s...

Beneath Water is a gripping short story that packs plenty of emotion into it's 15 minute running time.

When I saw the title ‘Second Coming’ placed alongside its one-line synopsis, “A look at the life and struggles of a family living in London” I was both intrigued and bemused and those feelings stuck...

Simply put, Kung Fury is a love letter to bad 80s cinema packed tightly into 30 insane minutes and it is simply amazing.

It’s been 30 years since Mad Max disappeared into the wasteland one (seemingly) last time. In the resulting void, the landscape of commercial blockbuster cinema has transformed; its artificiality...

A year after the hit-and-run death of his teenage son, Tom Carver (Aidan Gillen) is crippled by grief. A talented photographer, his marriage to Rachel (Amanda Mealing) disintegrated in the wake of the tragedy...

While Marcus (Josh Myers) leads his gang of multiracial cardboard cutout, bish-bosh-bash, diamond geezer armed robbers on a spree of daring smash-and-grab heists of upmarket jewellery stores across London,...

Aaaaaaaand the prize for most blandly cynical title change of the year goes to writer/director (& Gwynnie’s little bruv) Jake Paltrow’s slow-burning Sci-Fi/Western/Greek Tragedy, Young Ones, hastily...