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.
Dune Drifter (FrightFest 2020) review – low budget action sci-fi that made me want more
Several years ago, the horror film festival world fell for Colin, the micro-budget zombie film. Last year, Nightshooters had us jumping and laughing equally. This...
Broil (FrightFest 2020) review – twisted supernatural drama that wants to be cool
Broil is an odd one. Directed by Edward Drake and written by Drake with Piper Mars, it doesn’t seem to know whether it’s about the...
For the Sake of Vicious (FrightFest 2020) review – great action, sketchy writing
Films with two distinct halves can be tricky: Will the pace be maintained? Will the story make sense? Will the audience still know who to...
The World We Knew (FrightFest 2020) review – spellbinding blend of crime and creepy
Nearly thirty years ago, I watched a film by a brand new director about gangsters regrouping after a job gone wrong, with glimpses of the...
Babysitter Must Die (Frightfest 2020) review – a fun home invasion slasher
Babysitter Must Die is a horror movie from director Kohl Glass who previously bought us You May Now Kill the Bride. Starring Sneaky Pete’s Riley...
Breeder (Frightfest 2020) review – a brutal onslaught
Breeder is a Danish horror movie from director Jens Dahl of 3 Things, starring TV Rita’s Sara Hjort Ditlevsen, Valerian and the City of a...
Woman of the Photographs (FrightFest 2020) review – a beautiful reflection of obsession
Woman of the Photographs is a Japanese film and the feature debut from director Takeshi Kushida, starring a relatively unknown cast of Hideki Nagai, Itsuki...
Dangerous to Know (FrightFest 2020) review – too long, too slow, too familiar
Dangerous to Know is a wannabe noir thriller, styled after the director’s David Fincher favorites. David Simpson – better known as a sci-fi novelist –...
The Brain that Wouldn’t Die (FrightFest 2020) review – a sci-fi horror that refuses to die
I must confess I hadn’t come across the 1960s sci-fi horror The Brain that Wouldn’t Die until I heard that a satirical homage-style remake was...
Cadaver review – an underwhelming, class-conscious Norwegian chiller
What’s this? Another Netflix international horror-thriller-thing built around a rather unsubtle class-division metaphor like The Platform? Check! But it’s also a couple of other things,...
Held (FrightFest 2020) review – love in the time of lockdown
In Held, we meet Emma and Henry Barrett (Jill Awbrey and Bart Johnson), a couple whose marriage has clearly hit a rocky patch after nine...
Redwood Massacre: Annihilation review – a bigger and bloodier sequel
Redwood Massacre: Annihilation is directed by David Ryan Keith who returns to bring us the second part in his slasher world, starring scream queen Danielle...
Synchronic review – their latest and biggest film, but not the best
Synchronic is a film that I’ve been looking forward to since I first heard about it just over eighteen months ago, infatuated as I am...
Pixie review – Quentin Tarantino does Father Ted
Pixie is a comedy thriller set in Ireland, directed by Barnaby Thompson and written by Preston Thompson. It follows Pixie, go-getting and ruthless, and her...
Rooting for Roona review – a powerful and important original documentary
In just 41 minutes, Rooting for Roona reaffirmed my faith in humanity. It reminded me that for all its faults, modern technology can be a...
A Babysitter’s Guide to Monster Hunting Review – low-effort family spooks
Should monsters be cute? I suppose it depends. The colourful critters in Netflix’s new on-trend family film A Babysitter’s Guide to Monster Hunting certainly are,...
Saint Maud second opinion – saviour of British horror cinema?
The long-anticipated Saint Maud is one of the best new horror films I’ve seen this year; and in case you didn’t know, I’ve seen a...
Chop Chop review – sorely unfulfilled potential
Chop Chop, the directorial debut from Rony Patel, opens with police on the lookout for a killer who likes to remove his victims’ heads. We...