Movies

Seventeen (Netflix), also known as Diecisiete, tells the story of a troubled young boy named Hector during his time in a juvenile detention center, where...

When the Panama Papers were released, I don’t believe the general public was shocked, so Netflix film The Laundromat is hardly a fictional revelation of what...

Eli (Netflix), a new film by Ciarán Foy, opens as many horror movies do: with a nightmare. Foy wastes no time telling you that this...

Yes, the new, and I emphasize it’s a stretch to use the word “new” when describing this comedy from the team behind Bad Moms, film Jexi...

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...

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”...

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

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;...

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 is one of those very rare films that is virtually impossible to spoil: I could probably retell the whole thing right here...

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...

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

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

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...