BFI London Film Festival 2018 Review: Widows – “The script is sharp as a knife”
Steve McQueen got the 62nd BFI London Film Festival off to an explosive start with his female fronted heist. Adapted from Lynda La...
Read MoreBlu-ray Review: Monkey Shines
Monkey Shines is released on Blu-Ray, alongside Troll: The Complete Collection and Night of the Creeps, on the 8th of October and we are...
Read MoreBarbara Crampton talks to LFF about channelling Trump in Dead Night, breaking down her acting process and her role in Channel Zero
Barbara Crampton is widely and rightly considered horror royalty. Her unforgettable mid-80s roles in Re-Animator, Chopping Mall and From...
Read MoreReview: Venom – “The film is all over the place”
Venom is problematic. We all knew that, as it’d be unusual for it to be anything else, post-production hell. Booted from owner to owner,...
Read MoreReview: A Star Is Born – “Cooper and Gaga redefine their careers”
We complain about the reboot/rehash/reimagining of films more than we can count these days – it’s a virulent go-to ploy for lazy...
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...
Read MoreDVD Review: Shock and Awe – “An important story to tell in these trying times”
Shock and Awe is the latest film from Rob Reiner: he made it back to back with his (still unreleased in the UK) LBJ biopic, which also...
Read MoreTIFF Review: Destroyer – “Nicole Kidman embodies this dark character in a haunting performance”
You’ve never really seen a cop drama quite like this one. Or at least not with this lead. Never before has a female cop been shown to be...
Read MoreReview: A Simple Favour – “Wickedly silly”
The trailer for A Simple Favour makes Paul Feig’s latest film look like a modern thriller in the Gone Girl vein. But it isn’t that. It’s a...
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