4.5
Thunder Road Review
Meet Jim Cummings: this generation’s Steven Soderbergh and
Kevin Smith and David Gordon Green. A voice that has arrived to shake up and
rattle the cage of independent American cinema. One that aims to help ens...
4.5
4.5
1985 Review
Yen Tan’s 1985 may
be presented in black and white, giving the illusion that this is a story that
takes place long in the past, but this is a narrative that is still startlingly
relevant in today’s society. Ad...
4.5
Top End Wedding Review
Yes, bloody yes, Lauren
(Miranda Tapsell) exclaims after overly excited fiancé-to-be Ned (Gwilym Lee) bends
down mid-sentence to ask her one simple question. Will you? Well I, too, say
yes, bloody yes, save th...
3
Breaking Habits Review
It’s a story that sounds too bizarre to be real: a
successful business woman transforms her life after her marriage of seventeen
years is suddenly brought to an end. In a bid to rebuild her life, she turns to
...
1.5
Hellboy Review
As much as I shouldn’t
be, I’m comparing Neil Marshall’s Hellboy
to the Guillermo Del Toro efforts of the mid 2000’s. I just can’t help myself.
What Del Toro did with those films was create a wonderful univers...
2.5
Missing Link Review
Laika Studios fifth film, Missing Link, is clear evidence of the natural evolution of stop
motion animation that made the studio a force to be reckoned with ten years ago
with their debut film, Coraline. The
a...
3.5
Us Review
Jordan Peele, the genius
behind Get Out comes back to scare
the bejesus out of us with, well, Us.
All he had to do to scare me though was just make a movie about people eating
toffee apple. That is gross.
U...
4.5
The Highwaymen Review
Netflix’s newest feature,
The Highwaymen, tells the story of
retired Texas Ranger’s Frank Hamer (Kevin Costner) and Maney Gault (Woody
Harrelson) as they take on a special assignment to track down and finally ...
5
Back of the Net Review
When asked to have a look
at Back of the Net, my main
motivation for doing so was a chance to interview the films director, Louise
Alston (My first ever interview). In fact, I jumped at the chance. I love
...
4.5
The Hole in the Ground Review
The Hole in the Ground, directed by Lee Cronin, is a tense look into the lives of single mum and apparent domestic violence victim, Sarah O’Neill (Seána Kerslake), and her young son Chris (James Quinn Markey),...