Movie Reviews

Movie reviews are our specialty and passion. We deliver ratings and insights on films of all genres and sizes—from blockbuster hits to independent gems and streaming platform originals. Here is our extensive collection of reviews where we give our final opinion on many movies.

We also do TV Reviews too.

Door Lock (Mayhem 2019) Review: Slow Start Becomes High Tension

October 16 2019, by Alix Turner

Door Lock is not a typical home invasion film, though that’s what I had been expecting from the description in Mayhem Film Festival’s programme. A...

Zombieland: Double Tap Review: A Real Gut Buster

October 16 2019, by M.N. Miller

So, that’s where all the summer fun has been hiding! Since the end of this season’s big heat — or: “when studios pay their bills”...

Holiday Hell Review: A Mixed Bag Of Horror For The Holiday Season

October 15 2019, by Jonathon Wilson

Being a big fan of horror anthology movies and Christmas horror movies, I was very much looking forward to viewing Holiday Hell which is a...

The Gangster, the Cop, the Devil (Mayhem 2019) Review: Near-Perfect Serial Killer Thriller

October 14 2019, by Alix Turner

The Gangster, The Cop, The Devil opens with what appears to be road-rage that viciously turns into manslaughter; however, one young police detective spots similarities...

Sword Of God (Mayhem 2019) Review: Tough But Beautifully Made Historic Drama

October 14 2019, by Alix Turner

Sword of God (that’s how it was advertised at Mayhem, though The Mute appeared on the screen) is set in an unspecified time and place;...

The Pool (Mayhem 2019) Review: The Crocodile Movie Rocks

October 14 2019, by Alix Turner

Ping Lumpraploeng’s The Pool has a very simple premise: a couple (young and beautiful, of course) find themselves unable to get out of an abandoned...

Daniel Isn’t Real (Mayhem 2019) Review: Psychological Or Supernatural Horror — Or Both?

October 12 2019, by Alix Turner

Daniel Isn’t Real is one of those very rare films that is virtually impossible to spoil: I could probably retell the whole thing right here...

Gemini Man Review: A Deeply Admirable, Flawed Experience

October 11 2019, by Jonathon Wilson

Ang Lee is no stranger when it comes to attempting to integrate his very individual artistic vision with experimental technology. His last two feature films...

El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie (2019) Review

October 11 2019, by M.N. Miller

Directed by Vince Gilligan, we review the 2019 Netflix film El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie (2019), which does not contain spoilers.  When Walter White...

The Influence Review: A Horror Stemming From A Troubled Childhood

October 11 2019, by Daniel Hart

The Influence / La influencia was released on Netflix on Oct 11, 2019. It wouldn’t be a Netflix Friday without a decent-sized budget foreign horror...

Fractured Review: Another Boilerplate Netflix Thriller

October 11 2019, by Jonathon Wilson

Casting Sam Worthington in a nuts-and-bolts thriller like Fractured (Netflix) is almost a joke — and not a particularly funny one. The actor is known...

Dead Dicks Grimmfest 2019 Review: High Concept, Low Budget Winner

October 10 2019, by Alix Turner

Dead Dicks is not as flippant as the title suggests, not by a long way. To be honest, that’s pretty clear even before the film...

Little Monsters (Grimmfest 2019) Review: Not Just Another Rom-Zom-Com

October 6 2019, by Alix Turner

Little Monsters is about a zombie outbreak that just happens to kick off right next to a kids’ petting zoo. That description might either put...

The Wretched (Grimmfest 2019) Review

October 6 2019, by Jonathon Wilson

If there’s one movie monster that feels criminally underrepresented in the mainstream lexicon of horror creatures, it has to be the witch. Particularly in the...

Darlin’ (Grimmfest 2019) Review: The Unnecessary Sequel To The Woman

October 5 2019, by Alix Turner

Pollyanna McIntosh, who starred as the eponymous Woman in Lucky McKee’s 2011 film (and indeed the earlier Offspring), has written and directed the sequel, which...

Blood Vessel (Grimmfest 2019) Review: Death on the Water

October 4 2019, by Jonathon Wilson

Blood Vessel is a wartime horror from director Justin Dix (Crawlspace) and stars Alyssa Sutherland (Vikings), Robert Taylor (The Meg), Christopher Kirby (Dora and the...

Every Time I Die (Grimmfest 2019) Review: A Body-Hopping Murder Thriller That Works

October 4 2019, by Alix Turner

Every Time I Die is one of those excellent little thrillers that only involves a handful of characters. The love triangle, gorgeous sisters, murderously jealous...

Quiet Comes the Dawn aka Rassvet (Grimmfest 2019) Review: A Pretty But Shallow Dreamer’s Ball

October 4 2019, by Alix Turner

Quiet Comes the Dawn (original title Rassvet) starts off with an incredible atmosphere: a pregnant woman escaping from something in the middle of a rainy...