Reviews

Review: Stephen Dorff Gives The Performance Of His Career In EMBATTLED

Director Nick Sarkisov’s Embattled is a punchy sports drama that delivers blow after blow. Stephen Dorff is fantastic as the MMA fighter who enters the ring to take on his 18 year-old son. Dorff delivers maximum impact in the fight scenes and the [...]

July 5, 2021

Blu-ray Review: Jennifer Kent’s THE BABADOOK Is A Modern Horror Classic

Jennifer Kent’s 2014 film, The Babadook draws on the rich history of horror cinema, delivering thoughtful scares and strong imagery to create one of the finest genre films in recent years. Even, William Friedkin, the director of The [...]

July 1, 2021

Blu-ray Review: Classic Silent Expressionist Horror THE HANDS OF ORLAC

The 1924 horror film The Hands of Orlac (Orlac’s Hände) reunited the star (Conrad Veidt) and director (Robert Wiene) of the 1920 masterpiece, The Cabinet Of Dr Caligari for yet another classic silent genre piece. Based on the novel [...]

June 24, 2021

Blu-ray Review: Michael Douglas & Sharon Stone Star In Paul Verhoeven’s Classic Erotic Thriller BASIC INSTINCT

Director Paul Verhoeven’s 1992 film, Basic Instinct is a seminal erotic thriller. The neo-noir effectively kick-started the thriller sub-genre in the 1990s and made a star out of Sharon Stone in the process. The middle instalment in what Michael [...]

June 18, 2021

Review: Tyler Savage’s STALKER Is An Entertaining Cautionary Tale About Modern Life

Director Tyler Savage’s Stalker is an entertaining cautionary tale about the perils of modern life. It’s part relationship dramedy and part psychological thriller that manages to comes across as a cohesive whole despite straddling these [...]

June 17, 2021

Review: SUPERNOVA Starring Colin Firth & Stanley Tucci Is Filled With Powerful Emotion

Supenova is a beautifully rich character drama with a pair of wonderfully emotive performances from Colin Firth and Stanley Tucci. The pair really impress in this exceptionally well-honed drama from writer-director Harry Maqueen [...]

June 13, 2021

Review: SHIVA BABY Is A Brilliant Claustrophobic Cringe Comedy

Writer-director Emma Seligman may be only 25 years old, but she has delivered a terrifically composed debut with the back comedy, Shiva Baby. It’s a perfectly realised film, loaded with brilliant insight and witty one-liners. There’s a [...]

June 12, 2021

Review: Pierce Brosnan Is Suave & Debonair In Renny Harlin’s Slick & Stylish Heist Thriller THE MISFITS

Pierce Brosnan delivers a suave and debonair performance in director Renny Harlin’s The Misfits. A slick and stylish comedy-thriller, Harlin’s film may scrimp on plot and character development, but it delivers some energetic [...]

June 8, 2021

Review: CAVEAT Is A Creepy & Captivating Irish Chiller

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 [...]

June 3, 2021

DVD Review: Get Lost In Space With Sci-Fi Thriller BLACK BOX

Back in 2014, director Angel Delgado showed huge promise with his feature film debut, Brothers’ Day. The gritty crime thriller shone a light on the gang culture which prevails across England. For his follow-up film Black Box, Delgado has opted for [...]

May 29, 2021

Blu-ray Review: Zack Snyder’s JUSTICE LEAGUE Is Epic In Scope

Zack Snyder’s Justice League is a film which shouldn’t exist – but here it is. For years it was a cinematic myth, an unfinished film that would never see the light of day and nothing but a future trivia quiz question for comics [...]

May 26, 2021

Review: Zack Snyder’s ARMY OF THE DEAD – A Stupid Movie With Stupid Characters Doing Stupid Things

Zack Snyder is probably the most divisive director of the century. Over the last 20 years, no filmmaker has faced the vitriol which has been targeted at Snyder or been embraced by the fervent adoration of their fanbase. It’s odd – [...]

May 23, 2021

Blu-ray Review: Andrew Kötting’s THE WHALEBONE BOX Defies Classification

Andrew Kötting’s The Whalebone Box is a film which defies classification. It’s a documentary, a fantasy, a quest film, a tone poem – and a mind-warping slice of arthouse cinema. When a whalebone box is found washed up on the [...]

May 20, 2021

Blu-ray Review: Ridley Scott’s ’80s Thriller SOMEONE TO WATCH OVER ME

Someone To Watch Over Me is something of a forgotten title within Ridley Scott‘s filmography (it comes between 1985’s Legend and 1989’s Black Rain. This 1987 thriller might not be as well known as his other efforts, but it’s [...]

May 19, 2021

Blu-ray Review: J-P Valkeapää’s Darkly Comic DOGS DON’T WEAR PANTS

Writer and and director J-P Valkeapää’s Dogs Don’t Wear Pants is a darkly comic look at life, love and S&M. It follows an emotionally detached surgeon named Juha (Pekka Strang) who gets caught-up in a twisted relationship with [...]

May 19, 2021

Blu-ray Review: Gaspar Noé’s IRREVERSIBLE Starring Monica Bellucci & Vincent Cassel

Cinema by its nature can entertain and provoke – and Gaspar Noé’s Irreversible definitely provokes. Noé’s 2002 film is a cinematic gut punch, a wrenching drama told in reverse with brilliant performances from Monica Bellucci, Vincent [...]

May 19, 2021

Blu-ray Review: Richard Burton Stars In The Screen Adaptation Of John Le Carré’s THE SPY WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLD

Based on John le Carré‘s 1963 novel of the same name, director Martin Ritt‘s The Spy Who Came In From The Cold is a low-key character study set in the world of espionage. The 1965 film sees Richard Burton play Alec Leamas, an ageing [...]

May 18, 2021

Blu-ray Review: JUSTICE SOCIETY: WORLD WAR II Sees Your Favourite DC Comics Heroes Battling The Nazis

If you’re in the mood for some DC animation, then fans of all ages will find much to enjoy in Justice Society: World War II. It’s an enjoyable romp featuring many of your favourite DC Comics heroes – but with the added twist that [...]

May 15, 2021

Review: ADVERSE Is Gritty Neo-Noir With A Great Turn From Mickey Rourke

Brian A. Metcalf has crafted a solid neo-noir with Adverse. The writer-director-producer offers a glimpse into the underbelly of Los Angeles as this dark thriller prowls the after hours streets of the City of Angels. Metcalf has managed to snag a [...]

May 14, 2021

Review: Chino Moya’s Dark Dystopian Sci-Fi Drama UNDERGODS

Chino Moya’s Undergods is a darkly comic dystopian drama which has a strong feeling of uneasiness running throughout. Set in an unnamed futuristic world, Moya’s film tells three stories which make The Tales Of The Unexpected seem like Looney [...]

May 9, 2021

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