Movies

Here is our archive of movie coverage, which includes reviews, explainers, features, lists, and more from the latest films.

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Review – The Babadook

October 9 2017, by Jonathon Wilson

What is surprising, poignant, provocative, and frightening about The Babadook is its honesty. Here is a film – a debut feature, no less, written and...

‘Martyrs (2008)’ Review – A Disjointed Slasher

October 8 2017, by Daniel Hart

It feels to me that the disfigured ghoulish woman will be used in horror films forever. In the case of Martyrs, it inflicts terror on a...

Review – My Little Pony: The Movie

October 8 2017, by Jonathon Wilson

Thanks to a series of incredibly bizarre events, earlier this evening I found myself in a screening of My Little Pony: The Movie, along with...

Review – Moonlight

October 7 2017, by

In this, a film chronicling the minefield of adolescence for a young boy struggling to find who he is, a young man with a difficult...

Review – The Evil Dead

October 7 2017, by Jonathon Wilson

When Ash (Bruce Campbell) and four of his friends decide to go and stay in the woods together for a week, they hope for a...

Review – The Conjuring 

October 5 2017, by Jonathon Wilson

This review also contains spoilers. The Conjuring follows paranormal investigators and demonologists Lorraine and Ed Warren to Rhode Island in 1971 to a farmhouse home...

Review – The Grand Budapest Hotel

October 4 2017, by Jonathon Wilson

The Grand Budapest Hotel follows the tale of eccentric hotel concierge M. Gustave (Ralph Fiennes) and a lobby boy he befriends whilst caught up in...

Review – The Departed

October 4 2017, by Jonathon Wilson

Frank Costello (Jack Nicholson) has practically run his part of Boston for years via dodgy dealings and violence despite any amount of police operations to...

Review – No Country for Old Men

October 3 2017, by Adam Lock

Why can’t a guy just find $2million and live happily ever after in his trailer with his wife? I’ll tell you why. Because if he...

‘Locke (2013)’ Review – Tom Hardy Does A Tremendous Job Of Playing A Regular Bloke

October 3 2017, by Adam Lock

It can take years to make a life for yourself, but it can take minutes to destroy it forever. Ivan Locke (Tom Hardy) has what...

‘Dallas Buyers Club’ Review – A Truly Unforgettable Classic Movie

October 3 2017, by Adam Lock

What would you do if you found out you had 30 days to live? That is what cowboy Ron Woodroof has to decide after he...

Review – The Accountant

October 3 2017, by Jonathon Wilson

Christian Wolff (Ben Affleck) is a man with a better affinity for numbers than people. On the surface, it would seem that he is your...

Opinion – The Book of Eli and Atheism

October 2 2017, by Adam Lock

The age-old debate of God and religion is something I tend to think about a lot. After having just caught the ending of The Book of...

Review – The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)

October 1 2017, by Adam Lock

Five friends visiting their grandfather’s house in the country are terrorised by a chainsaw wielding killer and his grave robbing, cannibalistic relatives. After hearing the...

‘Our Souls at Night’ Review – A Slow-Paced Movie That’s Charming

October 1 2017, by Daniel Hart

I have always imagined loneliness after the retirement age to be a private matter. Before retirement, regardless of social, family or love life, if you...

Review – Flatliners (2017)

September 30 2017, by Daniel Hart

On Wikipedia, it declares that Flatliners (2017) is a sequel of the same name. It is a reboot. Throwing in Kiefer Sutherland as a cameo,...

Gerald’s Game (2017) Review

September 29 2017, by Daniel Hart

Directed by Mike Flanagan, we review the 2017 Netflix movie Gerald’s Game, which does not contain any significant spoilers.  A sex game went inconceivably wrong....

‘The Bad Batch (2016)’ Review – Gruesome But Fascinating

September 28 2017, by Daniel Hart

There is a paltry amount of dialogue in The Bad Batch. This is a good tool. Convincing dialogue would not have been weighty or forceful enough...