Reviews

Review: JAKOB’S WIFE Is A Role Barbara Crampton Can Sink Her Teeth Into

The general consensus is that when a female actor hits the age of 40, their career is pretty much over – or at the very least they’ll stop getting really juicy material. If anyone has been able to prove that belief wrong, it’s [...]

August 16, 2021

Review: Niamh Algar Impresses In Prano Bailey-Bond’s Hallucinogenic Horror CENSOR

Prano Bailey-Bond makes a powerful cinematic statement with her feature length directorial debut, Censor. This 1980s-set horror is a lyrical piece of nightmare poetry, one which draws you into its dark and hallucinogenic heart. At the centre of it [...]

August 9, 2021

Review: BOYS FROM COUNTY HELL Is An Irish Vampire Film With Bite

Writer/director Chris Baugh delivers a hugely entertaining comedy/horror with Boys From County Hell. The Irish vampire film is perfectly balanced – it’s loaded with laughs, scares, gore and a lot of heart – and this makes it a [...]

August 2, 2021

Review: MIDNIGHT IN THE SWITCHGRASS Starring Megan Fox, Emile Hirsch & Bruce Willis Is Dire

Another week brings another movie that sees the once great Bruce Willis sleepwalk his way through 12 minutes of screen-time for a $1 million payday. This time around the film is Midnight In The Switchgrass, a serial killer movie which marks the [...]

July 29, 2021

Review: Bruce Willis & Jamie King Are OUT OF DEATH (Whatever That Means)

Mike Burns’ directorial debut, Out Of Death sees Jaime King and Bruce Willis chased through the woods by a bunch of crooked cops when a drug deal goes bad. Those with a passing knowledge of Willis’ ever-growing list of VOD credits know that [...]

July 20, 2021

Blu-ray Review: Bryan Bertino’s THE DARK AND THE WICKED Is An Excellent Multilayered Horror That Resonates

Bryan Bertino’s The Dark And The Wicked is a horror film which is constructed from creepy atmosphere and and honest of emotion. A family drama enshrouded in a dark cloak, Bertino’s film is an intelligent horror which is as much about the [...]

July 14, 2021

Review: Ross Munro’s Short Film EUROPEAN TOUR ’73

Canadian filmmaker Ross Munro delivers a lovely little short in European Tour ’73. The 15 minute film is energetic, witty and heartfelt – packing as much into its running time as his family did into their 1973 summer vacation. European [...]

July 6, 2021

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

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