Review: 1945 – “Simmers slowly through deep emotions of guilt, anger and grief”
Directed by Ferenc Török. Starring Péter Rudolf, Bence Tasnádi, Tamás Szabó Kimmel, Dóra Sztarenki, Iván Angelus, Marcell Nagy. If someone...
Read MoreReview: Dario Argento’s Opera – “So distinctive and visceral”
Directed by Dario Argento. Starring Cristina Marsillach, Urbano Barberini, Ian Charleson, Coralina Cataldi-Tassoni, William McNamara. A...
Read MoreReview: Stan and Ollie – “It celebrates the pure joy that Laurel and Hardy brought to millions”
This is one of 2019’s films which I have been eagerly awaiting. I should explain that my father ensured as a youngster that I was...
Read MoreReview: The Favourite – “A delicious delight to watch”
My first film of the New Year and, oh boy, it was a damned good one too! You wait ages for a good historical, period film with strong...
Read MoreBook Review – Aardman: An Epic Journey: Taken One Frame at a Time
Aardman Animation has, rightly in my opinion, become a national, and indeed international, treasure, a bastion of quality animation – most...
Read MoreReview: The Secret of Marrowbone – “A deliciously atmospheric, chilling drama”
This is the directorial debut of Sergio G. Sánchez, but I am sure many film-lovers, especially horror fans, will already be familiar with...
Read MoreReview: Bohemian Rhapsody
Directed by Bryan Singer and Dexter Fletcher. Starring Rami Malek, Lucy Boynton, Joseph Mazzello, Ben Hardy, Gwilym Lee, Tom Hollander,...
Read MoreReview: The Snarling – “An absolute hoot of a Brit comedy-horror”
Directed by Pablo Raybould. Starring Julia Deakin, Joel Beckett, Chris Simmons, Laurence Saunders, Ste Johnson, Albert Moses. Ferocious...
Read MoreDVD Review: House of Salem – “An interesting, inventive and frequently creepy Brit-horror”
First debuting at FrightFest’s New Blood strand in 2016, James Crow’s Brit-horror House of Salem finally gets a DVD release....
Read MoreReview: The Captain – “Unforgiving, raw and brutally powerful”
Written and directed by Robert Schwentke (The Time Travelers Wife, Flight Plan, Red, Insurgent), The Captain – Der Hauptmann, to give it...
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