Reviews

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