Reviews

Review: THE SHATTERING Is A Psychological Thriller With A Strong Script & Impressive Performances

Confined, precise and well staged, The Shattering marks the first feature film from writer-director Daria Nazarova. With just three cast members and one location, this psychological thriller manages to feel much broader in scope than it actually is. [...]

September 14, 2021

Review: Kung Fu Comedy THE PAPER TIGERS Is An Absolute Joy

There’s a serious amount of fun to be had with Tran Quoc Bao’s The Paper Tigers. The writer/director/editor delivers a hugely energetic and entertaining comedy which is a joy to watch from beginning to end. The film transcends its low [...]

September 8, 2021

Review: Phyllida Lloyd Just Can’t Help 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 [...]

September 6, 2021

Review: THOSE WHO WISH ME DEAD Starring Angelina Jolie Is Another Great Thriller From Taylor Sheridan

Everything about Taylor Sheridan‘s Those Who Wish Me Dead feels like it was made in 1998 and they somehow forgot to release until 2021. I mean that as a compliment, I really do. Sheridan’s film is one of the most well executed big [...]

September 2, 2021

Review: Oscar Winners Richard Dreyfuss & Mira Sorvino Tackle A Crime Story In The Revenge Thriller THE LAST JOB

The Last Job (aka Crime Story) took me by surprise. I was expecting a by-the-numbers revenge thriller with Richard Dreyfuss seeking revenge on those who wronged him. Yes, that’s the general plot to writer/director Adam Lipsius’ thriller [...]

September 1, 2021

Review: CRABS! – A Comedic Killer Crustacean Creature Feature

Look, let be preface this review by saying that Crabs! isn’t a very good movie in the traditional sense. It’s a film about mutated killer crabs after all – so it’s hardly going to be Citizen Kane. However, Crabs! is [...]

August 27, 2021

Review: Filip Jan Rymsza’s MOSQUITO STATE Is A Cronenbergian Psychological Thriller

A clinically precise piece of filmmaking, Filip Jan Rymsza’s Mosquito State is a psychological thriller which verges towards Cronenbergian body horror. Rymsza’s film is more than that though, it uses the 2007 financial crisis as a stepping-off [...]

August 25, 2021

Review: Nicolas Cage Excels In The Emotional Character Study PIG

In the last decade, no other actor has had the work ethic of Nicolas Cage nor the sheer eclectic selection of roles. From generic action movies to genuine cult curios like Mandy and Color Out Of Space, Cage has moved across the spectrum delivering [...]

August 22, 2021

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

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