Movie Reviews

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 is a horror movie from director Kohl Glass who previously bought us You May Now Kill the Bride. Starring Sneaky Pete’s Riley...

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 is a Japanese film and the feature debut from director Takeshi Kushida, starring a relatively unknown cast of Hideki Nagai, Itsuki...

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 –...

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...

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,...

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 is directed by David Ryan Keith who returns to bring us the second part in his slasher world, starring scream queen Danielle...

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 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...

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...

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,...

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, the directorial debut from Rony Patel, opens with police on the lookout for a killer who likes to remove his victims’ heads. We...

If there’s one thing you can rely on Netflix for it’s true-crime and a consistent depiction of Mexico as a lawless frontier. After the incredible...

When I watched Blue & Malone with my son the other day, he asked me why it was included in a horror film festival programme....

Rent-A-Pal is odd, no getting away from that. I like and admire odd films, but figured it’s best to warn you: although it’s billed as...