Netflix can be a wonderful place to discover those ‘blink you miss’ cinema releases or those films that deserve a bigger audience. After watching Stanley Tucci‘s A Quiet Place clone The Silence, I stumbled across Final Portrait (2017). A little known charming indie directed by Tucci, probably seen more on the Festival circuit than cinema.… Read More Film Review – Final Portrait (2017)
Gerard Butler will forever be known for his trashy action flicks or forgettable rom coms. Could we ever see the day he pulls of some serious acting? Yes and it’s called The Vanishing! The Paisley born actor might flex his muscles in ancient Greece, saving American Presidents or chasing Drug lords. For this one he… Read More Film Review – The Vanishing (2018)
S.Craig Zahler is fast becoming the go to director for exploitative genre films, even if he calls them at times ‘Hybrids’. Bone Tomahawk a horror western, Brawl In Cell Block 99, a batshit crazy prison thriller. Now add Dragged Across The Concrete, that harks back to 1970’s violent pulpy thrillers. Another slice of corruption dented… Read More Film Review – Dragged Across Concrete (2018)
Originality is hard to come by these days, many would never think it could come from a man who wore a Papier Mâché head.Being Frank Frank: The Sievey Story is the story of that man Chris Sievey and his Papier Mâché alter ego Frank Sidebottom. Even nine years after his death Frank Sidebottom and Chris… Read More Film Review – Being Frank: The Chris Sievey Story (2019)
Based on his 2013 award winning short film of the same name, Vladimir De Fonteney’s Mobile Homes. A film based on those lost in the cracks of the American Dream, the forgotten and the impoverished. Life is full of pitfalls, wrong turns, bad choices and regrets. Imogen Poots stars as a young mother trying to… Read More Film Review – Mobile Homes (2017)
To many, the last great war was World War 2. If someone was to tell you there was another war that started a way back in 1953? You would probably their having a giraffe. The war in question is the Korean War , a product of the Cold War that ended ‘officially’ in 1991. It… Read More Film Review – The Spy Gone North (2018)
The end of the world will be no laughing matter, whatever causes it. The fear of what waits for you after an apocalyptic event especially what caused it is invisible. In Trey Edward Shult‘s It Comes At Night (2017) it seems the cataclysmic event was a plague. This film is more interested in the heightened tension ,… Read More Film Review – It Comes At Night (2017)
40 years ago in 1979, Ridley Scott directed Alien, a claustrophobic masterpiece that merged sci-fi with the horror which no one could hear you scream. Seven years later James Cameron gave us the near perfect sequel, Aliens (1986). It showed how adaptable the original film idea could be, now blending sci-fi with action thriller. Both… Read More Film Review – Alien Covenant (2017)
