Reviews

Gimmfest 2020 Review: TEN MINUTES TO MIDNIGHT

If you have any expectations going into director Erik Bloomquist‘s Ten Minutes To Midnight, then I suggest that you leave them at the door. On the surface, Bloomquist’s film is a vampire horror picture, but it’s really so much [...]

October 12, 2020

2020 BFI London Film Festival Review: SIBERIA

There’s a fine line between great art and pretension and Abel Ferrara’s Sibera walks it, often stumbling between the two like a snow-blind traveller navigating an unknown terrain. As you would expect from Ferrara, Siberia is a bold and [...]

October 11, 2020

Blu-ray Review: Ben Affleck Gives A Fearless Performance In FINDING THE WAY BACK

Gavin O’Connor’s Finding The Way Back (also known as The Way Back) might be a traditional sporting drama which uses the age-old trope of a coach taking a losing team to glory, but it manages to do it in a way that feels heartfelt and [...]

October 11, 2020

2020 BFI London Film Festival Review: RELIC

On the surface, Natalie Erika James’ Relic is a horror film – and for all intents and purposes it is. But there’s much more to unpack in this richly layered piece of genre cinema. Horror films always work best when they’re using the [...]

October 10, 2020

2020 BFI London Film Festival Review: HERSELF

Phyllida Lloyd’s Herself is a film which doesn’t quite know what it wants to be. On one hand it would like to be a gritty Ken Loach-style drama about surviving domestic abuse and on the other it wants to be an uplifting quasi-comedy littered [...]

October 9, 2020

2020 BFI London Film Festival Review: MANGROVE

Director Steve McQueen delivers another piece of powerhouse cinema with Mangrove, the first of five works from his Small Axe film collection. Chosen to open the 2020 BFI London Film Festival, Mangrove is front and centre at the festival, something [...]

October 8, 2020

Gimmfest 2020 Review: THE HORROR CROWD

Horror is a genre which shines a light on our darkest fears and nightmares. Horror films delve deep into human nature, taking the worst of humanity and bringing it to the fore. It also rips the most terrifying concepts from our imaginations and [...]

October 8, 2020

Blu-ray Review: Bryan Bertino’s THE STRANGERS Is A Modern Horror Classic & Second Sight Films Gives It The Release It Deserves

Writer-director Bryan Bertino made a hugely impressive and incredibly assured directorial debut with The Strangers. A home invasion horror, the 2008 film is loaded with a building tension and it’s definitely not one for the faint-hearted. [...]

September 30, 2020

Blu-ray Review: CIRCUS OF HORRORS Has Big Top Thrills & Horror Chills

Circus of Horrors is a gloriously grotesque British horror film from 1960. The Sidney Hayers directed film is part of what film critic David Pirie called Anglo-Amalgamated’s “Sadian trilogy” (the other two films were Horrors of the [...]

September 26, 2020

Blu-ray Review: Peter Bogdanovich’s THE GREAT BUSTER: A CELEBRATION Is A Wonderful Tribute To One Of The True Masters Of Cinema

The Great Buster: A Celebration is exactly what the film’s title says it is. Writer-director Peter Bogdanovich‘s documentary celebrates the life and career of the great Buster Keaton. While Bogdanovich’s doc touches on [...]

September 25, 2020

Blu-ray Review: BRAIN DEAD Is A Quirky Cult Horror Classic From Director Adam Simon

Director Adam Simon‘s Brain Dead is a gloriously mind-bending delight. A brain-scratcher of a psychological horror, the 1990 film is gory, funny and weirdly complex – especially considering it comes from legendary schlockmeister Roger [...]

September 17, 2020

Review: THE BLECH EFFECT Is A Fascinating Documentary About A Fallen Biotech King

David Greenwald’s documentary The Blech Effect is a fascinating portrait of David Blech, the so-called King Of Biotech. At his peak he was worth $300 million, but when Greenwald catches-up with him, Blech is millions of dollars in debt and on [...]

September 16, 2020

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