After 20 plus years playing the boy wizard, Daniel Radcliffe has done his best to make sure when Hogwarts door closed for him he wouldn’t be forgotten. Same could be said about Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson with Twilight Saga. One could argue about the qaulity of those films, which we’ll leave you to decide.… Read More Film Review – Escape From Pretoria (2020)
When it comes to crime thrillers, some of the best ever made have come from Hong Kong. Thought provoking, action packed, noir tinged, captivating sometimes even slow burning and comedic. The sub genre has given us some film auteurs actors who have ventured into Hollywood, most of all great films. To coincide with Running Out… Read More Best Hong Kong Crime Thrillers
Would you dangle from a rusty 2000 foot tower to pose for a selfie? Like majority of us the answer will be know unless you’re an adrenalin junkie. Like the two girls in Scott Mann’s survival thriller Fall and one ‘edge’ you don’t want to go over! Fear reaches new heights, for this one that… Read More Film Review – Fall (2022)
Released as part of their brilliant Masters of Cinema series, Eureka Entertainment give us the slick cat and mouse thriller Running Out Of Time. Directed by Johnnie To and a film that was released in 1999 and was one of Hong Kong’s biggest box office hits of that year and now released in the UK… Read More Film Review – Running Out Of Time 1+2 (Masters Of Cinema)
2021 was a busy year for Edgar Wright with wooing as well as educating us with The Sparks Brothers documentary. Ending the year with the genre mixing psychological thriller Last Night In Soho. As the ghosts of the past terrorise a young aspiring fashion designer or is it all in her mind? Many cities all… Read More Film Review – Last Night In Soho (2021)
For many years I’ve not hideen my dislike for the majority of Adam Sandler‘s filmography. I could easily count all his films I’ve enjoyed on one hand with several fingers to spare. 2020 that hand now has one less spare finger with the Safdie Brothers Uncut Gems. Ben and Josh Safdie introduced themselves to the… Read More Film Review – Uncut Gems (2020)
‘Never judge a book by it’s cover’, it’s a saying you can use in many situations including describing films like Kleber Mendoca Filho and Juliano Dornelles‘ Bacurau. A film you may think you about, but you really don’t. All about wealthy inequality, class struggle, dripping in blood-lust and Udo Kier! More and more we’re seeing… Read More Film Review – Bacurau (2019)
‘Smile be happy‘, you will be if your the CEO of Warner Bros Pictures. Todd Phillips Joker may not be your ‘average comic book movie’. Nor does it have to be or need CGI or spandex characters to deliver. As I write this review, the film has just picked up two Oscars…Best Actor, Best Score.… Read More Film Review – Joker (2019)
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)
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