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.
‘Pledge’ | Grimmfest Film Review
Pledge is about a group of bright but socially awkward young men, new to their university and trying to find a fraternity which they’d feel...
‘Pengabdi Setan’ (‘Satan’s Slaves’) | Grimmfest Film Review
If you’re an ignorant Westerner like me, the title might lead you to expect a tongue-in-cheek film like Satan’s Cheerleaders, or a remake of Norman...
‘Piercing’ | Grimmfest Film Review
Piercing possesses expectedly solid performances from Mia Wasikowska (Alice In Wonderland) and Christopher Abbott (It Comes At Night) playing a prostitute and the man who planned...
‘Re-Animator’ | Grimmfest Film Review
What self-respecting horror fan gets to middle age without seeing Re-Animator? This one, that’s who… well, not until this week when it was screened at...
‘Scream 2’ (1997) | Film Review
Following up his smash hit, Scream, Wes Craven returned the next year with another meta-filled film. Much like the first film was a love letter to...
‘Office Uprising’ | Grimmfest Film Review
A quite wonderful mix of Office Space and Shaun of the Dead, Lin Oeding’s movie Office Uprising stars Brenton Thwaites (Titans) as a regular office...
‘Malevolent’ (2018) | Netflix Original Film Review
Malevolent is an unusual beast: it was made in the USA, filmed in Glasgow, directed by a man from Iceland; it stars just a couple...
‘Girls With Balls’ | Grimmfest Film Review
Grimmfest 2018 held the European Premiere of Girls With Balls and what a wonderfully entertaining end to the festival’s opening night it was. Director Olivier...
Serpent (2017) Review – an isolated-based thriller
Here is our review of the 2017 horror film Serpent, which does not contain significant spoilers or plot twists. The directorial debut of Amanda Evans...
‘Await Further Instructions’ | Grimmfest Film Review
I won’t leave this to the end, I’ll tell you now: Await Further Instructions blew me away. I knew little of what to expect, past...
The Kindergarten Teacher (2018) Review
Directed by Sara Colangelo, we review The Kindergarten Teacher (2018), which does not contain spoilers. The Kindergarten Teacher, written and directed by Sara Colangelo, is...
‘A Star is Born’ (2018) | Film Review
Jackson Maine doesn’t care where he drinks, as long as the bar is open and the alcohol is flowing. We can’t tell yet if Jackson...
‘The Exorcist’ | Film Review
In 1999, Entertainment Weekly declared that The Exorcist was the “scariest movie of all time”. It’s an accolade that many people would reiterate, even today. Directed...
‘The Wife’ | Film Review
The Wife opens with the fictional acclaimed writer and professor, Joel Casselman, waking up to a phone call from Stockholm, Sweden, in which he is...
‘The Fog’ (1980) | Film Review
By 1980, John Carpenter had taken the horror genre by storm with his low budget, big box office smash Halloween. The film, receiving another reboot...
‘Blaze’ | Film Review
During an interview, Townes Van Zandt said, “He was only deemed crazy once,” while his buddy Zee says, a tad judgmentally, “You should really know...
‘Marvel Rising: Secret Warriors’ | Film Review
First, a disclaimer. Marvel Rising: Secret Warriors is quite obviously pitched at kids in general and young girls in particular, and I’m a twenty-eight-year-old man....
‘Angel Heart’ | Film Review
If you are looking for a little something different to help you through to Halloween this year, you could do far worse than Alan Parker’s...