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Film Review – Orphan: First Kill (2022)
Esther is back! 13 years after Juame Collet-Sera’s Orphan (2009), we have a prequel Orphan: First Kill. On paper this shouldn’t work, prequel sequels rarely do, many are only about keeping franchises alive a bit longer. William Brent Bell’s film is a highly entertaining thriller that exceeds all (low) expectations. Isabelle Fuhrman returns as the…
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Film Review – Day Shift (2022)
Bill Withers’ song Just The Two of Us could easily all about Day Shift. Starring Jamie Foxx and Vampire action comedy are like the perfect couple. That maybe on paper, on the small screen are they ‘fang-tastic’ together in Netflix’s latest Original? Foxx brings his Hollywood A game as Bud Jablonski a hard working blue…
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Film Review – Operation Mincemeat (2022)
Europe is on the brink of loosening Hilter’s grip on Occupied Europe in War thriller drama Operation Mincemeat. John Madden directs this one (Best exotic marigold hotel, Miss Sloane), starring Colin Firth and Matthew McFadyen. The tide of war changed all thanks to a dead body?! It’s 1943. The Allies plan one last all-out assault…
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Films Set On Trains (or Trains play big part of plot)
All Aboard! To celebrate the release of Bullet Train now out in cinemas everywhere. We have a list of films based on trains or trains play an important part of the films. This list isn’t complete or the films in specific order. There is an notables list at the end , these films fit the…
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Film Review – Fantastic Beasts: Secrets Of Dumbledore (2022)
The third installment of the first Harry Potter spin-off series Fantastic Beasts: Secrets Of Dumbledore. The Pre Harry Potter film franchise which started early 20th century , Mads Mikkelsen now has replaced Johnny Depp as the film’s antagonist Gellert Grindelwald all thanks to Johnny’s off screen troubles . This film takes place not long after…
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2022 Arrow FrightFest Must Watch Films
Later this month Arrow FrightFest weekend will take place from 25th August until 29th August. All taking place at London’s Leicester Square and Prince Charles Cinema for it’s 23rd year. Five days of the very best of global genre cinema. Unearthing liars and unholy terror, and we won’t be safe at any height. 80 films…
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Films With Phones Pivotal Part of Narrative
Along with the name of the film, the phone in all it’s shapes and sizes plays an important part of the film or that film has an important scene which the phone plays big part of the story. As ever it’s not a complete, nor is it in order nor the film might be considered…
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Film Review – Nope (2022)
Over the short space of five years, Jordan Peele has fast becoming one of the go to film-makers in metaphorical genre cinema. Call it psychological horror or horror with brains he’s doing something that’s open society’s eyes. Nope is his third foray into genre film-making empirical uncertainty. Jordan Peele is a comedian/actor who for years…
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Film Review: The Sparks Brothers (2021)
I’m sure many of us or the opposite even know who Sparks are. Last year Edgar Wright (Last Night In Soho, Shaun Of The Dead) released Documentary which premiered at 2021 Sundance Film Festival. How can one rock band be successful, underrated, hugely influential, and criminally overlooked all at the same time? Brothers Ron and…
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Film Review – Monstrous (2022)
Monstrous we originally watched at 2022 Glasgow Film Festival (part of Arrow Video FrightFest line up), now out on Digital in the UK and Ireland from Koch Films. This indie period based supernatural thriller that stars Christina Ricci in the lead role. NO longer is she just known for being Wednesday Addams. A role that…
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