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TIFF Review: Baby

TIFF Review: Baby

Posted by on Oct 5, 2018 in drama, Film, indie, Reviews | 0 comments

While working at a hospital as a janitor Meng attempts to save a baby with the same genetic disorder as she has no matter the...

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Review: A Star Is Born – “Cooper and Gaga redefine their careers”

Review: A Star Is Born – “Cooper and Gaga redefine their careers”

Posted by on Oct 1, 2018 in All, drama, Film, Headline, musical, Reviews, romance | 0 comments

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...

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DVD Review: House of Salem – “An interesting, inventive and frequently creepy Brit-horror”

DVD Review: House of Salem – “An interesting, inventive and frequently creepy Brit-horror”

Posted by on Sep 27, 2018 in All, DVD/Blu-ray, Film, Headline, horror, Reviews, thriller | 0 comments

First debuting at FrightFest’s New Blood strand in 2016, James Crow’s Brit-horror House of Salem finally gets a DVD release....

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Review: The Captain – “Unforgiving, raw and brutally powerful”

Review: The Captain – “Unforgiving, raw and brutally powerful”

Posted by on Sep 20, 2018 in All, drama, Film, Headline, Reviews, thriller, war | 0 comments

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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DVD Review: Shock and Awe – “An important story to tell in these trying times”

Posted by on Sep 20, 2018 in All, drama, DVD/Blu-ray, Film, Headline, Reviews, thriller | 0 comments

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...

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TIFF Review: Destroyer – “Nicole Kidman embodies this dark character in a haunting performance”

TIFF Review: Destroyer – “Nicole Kidman embodies this dark character in a haunting performance”

Posted by on Sep 19, 2018 in All, drama, Film, Headline, Reviews, thriller | 0 comments

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...

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Review: A Simple Favour – “Wickedly silly”

Review: A Simple Favour – “Wickedly silly”

Posted by on Sep 18, 2018 in All, Books, comedy, drama, Film, Headline, Reviews, thriller | 0 comments

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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Review: Mandy – “If Jodorowsky mainlined DMT while listening to doom metal non-stop”

Posted by on Sep 18, 2018 in action, All, drama, fantasy, Film, Headline, horror, indie, Reviews, sci-fi, thriller | 0 comments

Mandy is the new film by Panos Cosmatos, director of Beyond the Black Rainbow — a film that still hasn’t been released in the UK despite...

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TIFF Review: Can You Ever Forgive Me? – “Melissa McCarthy delivers her best performance to date”

TIFF Review: Can You Ever Forgive Me? – “Melissa McCarthy delivers her best performance to date”

Posted by on Sep 15, 2018 in All, biopic, drama, Film, Reviews | 0 comments

At a literary party close to the beginning of Can You Ever Forgive Me? an author comments that he doesn’t believe in writer’s...

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TIFF Review: Her Smell – “Elisabeth Moss is mesmerizing”

TIFF Review: Her Smell – “Elisabeth Moss is mesmerizing”

Posted by on Sep 15, 2018 in All, drama, Film, indie, Reviews | 0 comments

There were a lot of music-centric films this year at the Toronto International Film Festival, most revolving around women musicians.  Vox...

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