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EIFF 2024 Review: Timestalker – “an absolute delight”

Posted by on Aug 27, 2024 in All, comedy, drama, fantasy, Film, Headline, Reviews, romance, sci-fi | 0 comments

Directed by Alice Lowe Starring Alice Lowe, Aneurin Barnard, Jacob Anderson, Nick Frost, Kate Dickie, Tanya Reynolds Written, directed by...

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EIFF 2024 Review: The Radleys – “A genuinely enjoyable entry in the vampire genre.”

Posted by on Aug 26, 2024 in All, Books, comedy, drama, fantasy, Film, Headline, horror, Reviews, thriller | 0 comments

Directed by Euros Lyn Starring Kelly MacDonald, Damian Lewis, Harry Baxendale, Jay Lycurgo, Bo Bragason, Shaun Parkes I was keen to see...

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EIFF 2024 Review: The Substance – “A remarkable, highly unusual, full-throttle, OTT but in the best way horror”

Posted by on Aug 23, 2024 in All, drama, fantasy, Film, Headline, horror, Reviews, sci-fi, thriller | 0 comments

Directed by Coralie Fargeat Starring Demi Moore, Margaret Qualley, Dennis Quaid This was another of the revived Midnight Madness strand of...

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Review: Blink Twice is an homage to Boogie Nights

Posted by on Aug 22, 2024 in All, comedy, drama, Film, Headline, Reviews, thriller | 0 comments

Blink Twice starts with a character scrolling their feed on the toilet, watching an apology video made by a billionaire, immediately...

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Edinburgh International Film Festival 2024 – Competition Shorts

Posted by on Aug 22, 2024 in All, animated, Film, Headline, Reviews, short film | 0 comments

I always find the live action and the animated short film section of the festival to be a fascinating one. The short work is often where...

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Blu-ray Review: Sting – “skittering stinging fun”

Posted by on Aug 18, 2024 in All, drama, Film, Headline, horror, Reviews, sci-fi, thriller | 0 comments

An aracno-horror written and directed by Kiah Roache-Turner, with a creature designed by WETA, and starring Furiosa’s Ayla Browne, Sting...

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Edinburgh International Film Festival 2024 Review: Oddity – “A horror fan’s delight of murder, revenge and the supernatural”

Posted by on Aug 18, 2024 in All, drama, fantasy, Film, Headline, horror, Reviews, thriller | 0 comments

Directed by Damian McCarthy Starring Carolyn Bracken, Gwilym Lee, Tadhg Murphy, Steve Wall, Jonathan French My first screening of this...

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What’s New in Home Video & Pop Culture – August 13th, 2024 – Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, If, The Bikeriders, The First Omen, Ted Lasso, Demons and more

Posted by on Aug 13, 2024 in All, DVD/Blu-ray, Film, Reviews | Comments Off on What’s New in Home Video & Pop Culture – August 13th, 2024 – Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, If, The Bikeriders, The First Omen, Ted Lasso, Demons and more

Now this is a week that has a little bit of everything! We’ve got major theatrical releases, classic cult films on 4K Ultra HD, some...

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Borderlands is unlike other video game movies (in a good way).

Posted by on Aug 9, 2024 in action, All, comedy, drama, Film, Games, Headline, Reviews, sci-fi, thriller, Video Game | 0 comments

About halfway through Borderlands, director Eli Roth holds the camera on Jamie Lee Curtis’s natural face, while her character, (Dr...

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What’s New in Home Video & Pop Culture – August 6th, 2024 – The Man From U.N.C.L.E., Back To Black, American Gigolo and Ultraman Taiga

Posted by on Aug 6, 2024 in All, DVD/Blu-ray, Film, Reviews | Comments Off on What’s New in Home Video & Pop Culture – August 6th, 2024 – The Man From U.N.C.L.E., Back To Black, American Gigolo and Ultraman Taiga

This week’s column is a short one, more because I was on vacation last week and I’m still playing catch up. Next week’s column should be...

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