Movie Reviews

The Possession of Hannah Grace begins how most movies of this type end: With an exorcism. You can picture the scene. The ill-fated title character...

Matthew Modine is in urgent need of codeine in Brian Miller’s Backtrace, a workmanlike genre flick in which he plays an amnesiac bank robber who...

As cash-grabs go, Once Upon a Deadpool is better than most, mainly because it takes one of the most entertaining films of the year (which...

One of the shows I remember most fondly from when I was a kid is Stingray. I went to see Aquaman today expecting a similar...

To give this film a little bit of credit, scarecrows are an underutilized feature in horror films. They’re naturally pretty unsettling, what with their burlap...

Mirai is the new anime written and directed by Mamoru Hosoda; known by some for a number of the Digimon films, and by others as the...

You can tell when a romantic comedy is going to crash and crash badly. It’s the moment when the couple meets, and two can things...

When Jonah settles in on top of his father’s lap, who lays back in his chair in front of his work desk, he asks him,...

There’s a common and very silly misconception about critics that posits their job is to be objective; to put aside their taste, their preferences, and...

Netflix is not messing around this year! The Christmas holidays are upon us, and the streaming giant wants us to know about it. After the...

This is how I like to spend my early mornings. Feet up, a nice warm brew, some miserable soggy porridge, and immersing myself into Netflix...

Intensive Care is directed by Jared Bentley, who worked on the special effects of Army of Darkness, with this being his feature film debut. It...

Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Nobody Knows is one of my all-time favourite films; on paper, it sounds like one of the world’s most depressing films (five children...

Elves delivers an unsurprisingly messy and cringe film telling the story of seven Christmas Elves that only have one thing on their mind: punishing those on...

Blood Brother is a film that is a little bit better than you’d think and a lot worse than it might have been. Any low...

When the first teaser trailer dropped for Lee Chang-Dong’s Burning, it was a shock to the senses. As trailers go, Burning ticked all the right boxes,...

My love for battle rap predates my current career as a mean-spirited producer of words, but the two things are inextricably linked. The underground world...

There are moments in Chloe Zhao’s The Rider that is so beautifully shot that I have a feeling the character Ricky from American Beauty would...