Reviews

Review: Jon Hamm Excels In The Comedy-Mystery CONFESS, FLETCH

Confess, Fletch is a fun, breezy, star-driven comedy-mystery with a magnificently charismatic turn from the mighty Jon Hamm. This adaptation of Gregory Mcdonald’s 1976 novel is a cool throwback movie – the type of film which was the [...]

September 17, 2022

Review: Colson Baker & Kevin Bacon Are Only Going ONE WAY

Director Andrew Baird delivers a strong neo-noir in the shape of One Way. A gritty thriller which is essentially set within a single location – a bus – Baird infuses the film with enough visual flourishes and energy to make it feel like [...]

September 3, 2022

Blu-ray Review: Neil Marshall’s DOG SOLDIERS Is Still An Absolute Howl After 20 Years

Neil Marshall’s Dog Soldiers was a major breath of fresh air when it was released in 2002. At the time British horror films were in the doldrums and Marshall came along and delivered a punchy, visceral and monumentally entertaining film which is [...]

August 29, 2022

Blu-ray Review: RED SONJA – Swords, Sorcery & Schwarzenegger

Swords, sorcery and Schwarzenegger – the 1980s were a time of high adventure when it came to fantasy films. You could never call Red Sonja a great piece of art, but if you grab this adventure by the reins and kick-in your heels, then you’ll [...]

July 17, 2022

Blu-ray Review: Ryan Gosling Takes The Hot Seat In Second Sight Films’ Release Of Nicolas Winding Refn’s DRIVE

Based on James Sallis’ novel of the same name, Nicolas Winding Refn’s 2011 thriller, Drive sees Ryan Gosling play a character only known as Driver, a stuntman by day and getaway driver at night, whose relationship with single parent Carey [...]

June 10, 2022

Review: Nicolas Cage Comedy THE UNBEARABLE WEIGHT OF MASSIVE TALENT Excels As An Appreciation Of One Of Hollywood’s True Mavericks

You might like him, loathe him, love him or be totally nonplussed by Nicolas Cage – but you can’t deny that he’s an actor who likes to put himself out there by selecting off-beat projects. From cult actor and Oscar winner to action hero [...]

April 20, 2022

Review: Mel Gibson’s THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST Is A Cinematic Miracle

Mel Gibson’s The Passion Of The Christ is a powerful piece of cinema. It’s a breathtaking, bravura biblical epic which resonates on multiple levels. Gibson’s film has no compromises. The filmmaker set out to tell a story and he [...]

April 15, 2022

Review: Kurt Russell Is Snake Plissken In John Carpenter’s ESCAPE FROM L.A

Time is a great healer. John Carpenter’s Escape From L.A may not have set the world on fire when it was released back in 1996, but the film has aged incredibly well in the subsequent years. The follow-up to Carpenter’s 1981 classic, Escape From [...]

April 11, 2022

Review: BROADCAST SIGNAL INTRUSION Is An Impressive Retro Chiller

Broadcast Signal Intrusion really delivers on slow creeping atmosphere. Directed by Jacob Gentry and written by Phil Drinkwater and Tim Woodall, it riffs on a few classic movies (The Conversation, Blow Out and Zodiac to name a few) but it’s a [...]

April 5, 2022

Review: Peter Bogdanovich ‘Lost’ Final Film SQUIRRELS TO THE NUTS

It appeared that Peter Bogdanovich‘s final narrative feature was the enjoyable but lightweight 2014 film, She’s Funny That Way. Starring Owen Wilson, Imogen Poots, Kathryn Hahn, Will Forte, Rhys Ifans and Jennifer Aniston, the screwball [...]

April 5, 2022

Review: Ben Affleck & Ana de Armas Impress In The Entertaining Thriller DEEP WATER

After a 20 year sabbatical from directing, the great Adrian Lyne returns with a film which sits very nicely within his wheelhouse. Fitting nicely beside the likes of Fatal Attraction, Indecent Proposal and Unfaithful, Deep Water gives Lyne yet [...]

March 15, 2022

Review: THE BATMAN Is A Refreshing But Flawed Take On The Dark Knight

The Batman is the latest big screen incarnation of Bob Kane and Bill Finger’s iconic comic book hero. Over the last 30-odd years there have been multiple film takes on Batman from Tim Burton’s brooding gothic noir and Joel Schumacher’s [...]

March 8, 2022

Blu-ray Review: Irish Horror CAVEAT Will Give You The Creeps

Damian Mc Carthy makes a wonderful feature length directing debut with Caveat, a creepy and captivating horror film which has scares as well as a few well-placed chuckles. This low budget independent Irish film delivers the goods, making it a [...]

February 26, 2022

Review: Short Film REAVEY BROTHERS Focuses On A Tragic Moment In Northern Ireland’s History

Short films are cinematic sketches, a way of telling stories in an abbreviated fashion with the same dramatic momentum as a feature length narrative. At their best they can take complex themes and ideas and condense them into bite-size tales which [...]

February 7, 2022