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)
For Five years we’ve impatiently on David Robert Mitchell‘s follow up to It Follows . Now Under The Silver Lake has arrived, it may not tick all the boxes to be an instant cult classic, but it’s on the way to be one. This is one film you can file as a marmite film. Many… Read More Film Review – Under The Silver Lake (2018 )
Cinema loves creepy kids and through out film history, the cannon of eerie siblings wanting your every whim. In Lee Cronin’s The Hole In The Ground it will challenge you to ask yourself one question. Is that your child next to you? Are you sure?! The past few years its been quiet a resurgence for the horror genre.… Read More Film Review -The Hole In The Ground (2019)
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)
When it comes to historical moments in our history, we seem to talk more about that event than the people involved in it. In First Man, the focus does shift to them, Neil Armstrong the first man to walk on the moon. A story that’s not so much that one small step for man he… Read More Film Review – First Man (2018)
Every generation ‘stars are born’ or in the words of Jackson Maine ‘Talent Is Everywhere’, he would be correct. Last October, Bradley Cooper had a lot to say when he made his directorial feature debut, A Star Is Born, when it was released in the cinema, now you can own it. When the film was… Read More Film Review – A Star Is Born (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)
