Grimmfest 2018 Review – Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich – “Some of the most creative death scenes I’ve seen in a long time”
A reboot of the Charles Band’s Puppet Master franchise, Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich is the 13th film in the series… and quite...
Read MoreReview: Halloween – “Made with palpable care and obvious love and respect”
40 years after John Carpenter’s original Halloween changed the face of independent filmmaking and made an unforgettable impact on the...
Read MoreBFI London Film Festival 2018 Review: Wild Rose – “An engaging, investing and ultimately joyous film”
In Tom Harper’s Wild Rose, Jessie Buckley (star of the excellent Beast) plays Rose-Lynn, a woman fresh out of a year in jail who’s trying...
Read MoreBFI London Film Festival 2018 Review: Sorry To Bother You – “Margaret Atwood territory with a dash of Monty Python”
The word ‘genius’ is so casually thrown around that when a work of real genius arrives, it can get overlooked. Sorry To Bother You is a...
Read MoreBFI London Film Festival 2018 Review: Out Of Blue – “Flashes of brilliance”
Carol Morley is an investigator behind the camera; it’s the common thread that runs through her films. From the fragments of memories from...
Read MoreBFI London Film Festival 2018 Review: Thunder Road – “An outstanding feature debut”
There are plenty of reasons why Thunder Road is an outstanding feature debut – from its virtuoso one-take opening sequence to its...
Read MoreBFI 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 MoreBFI London Film Festival 2018 Review: Bad Reputation – The new Joan Jett documentary
Rock docs can often be a pretty standard cut-up of the archive and talking heads. Director Kevin Kerslake’s Joan Jett film Bad Reputation...
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,...
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