Following the real-life disaster that was 2020, are we really ready for a Gerard Butler disaster movie featuring a comet that is threatening to wipe out all of humanity? Well, Greenland certainly does prove to be a pretty intense two-hour watch, so much so that when I turned over to watch the 10 o’clock news […]
Following a successful worldwide premiere at Fantasia and a UK premiere at Soho Horror Fest in 2019, Sator is now set to receive a digital release on 15th February. The trailer for this one really grabbed me – atmospheric, with beautiful cinematography and a concept that promised to be something truly chilling. What further appealed
Crone Wood is a 2016 found-footage style Irish horror movie starring Elva Trill (Line of Duty) and Ed Murphy (Vikings), coming to DVD and VOD on February 1st. Danny and Hailey only met yesterday, but already seem to be getting on extremely well. Following a swim in the sea and some food in a cafe,
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Following South Korean zombie movie Train to Busan was always going to be a tall order. One of the most entertaining surprises of recent years and one of the best zombie movies of all time. Peninsula sets itself in the same universe as Train to Busan, ensuring the connection is made by prefixing is with
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Away is a multi-award-winning animation, single-handedly created by Latvian filmmaker and animator Gints Zilbalodis on a shoestring budget. It has earned a 100% fresh rating on review-aggregation website rotten tomatoes and, in what now appears to be something of a regular occurrence for me, it turned out to be yet another movie that I absolutely
The Exception is a Danish psychological thriller, based on the best seller by Christian Jungersen. It deals with four women who work for a Copenhagen based Non-Governmental Organisation investigating human rights and crimes against humanity. When two of these women receive death threats, they begin to suspect a Serbian war criminal who they have been
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Pieces of a Woman stars Vanessa Kirby and Shia LaBeouf as Martha and Sean, a married couple preparing for the imminent arrival of their first child. But a heartbreaking home birth leaves Martha struggling with grief and becoming increasingly isolated from Sean and her family. If you’ve heard anything about Pieces of a Woman recently,
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We decided to split our year-end roundup into individual posts this year, with each of the team providing their personal take on the entertainment that helped us through this crazy year. In this post, Lee discusses his top 5 movies and TV shows. Let us know if you agree or disagree with any of his
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Late one stormy night, DJ Rod Wilson is hosting Nightmare Radio, a show dedicated to horror. In between music and ads for local companies, Rod recounts creepy stories while inviting his listeners to phone in with their own tales of the paranormal. When he begins to receive strange calls from a child in desperate need
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After receiving a screening at FrightFest, way back in 2011, The Glass Man is finally getting a UK release, as it heads to digital download from December 7th. Andy Nyman stars as Martin, a businessman whose day is about to go from bad to much, much worse. It all starts off in a seemingly normal
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As I settled down to watch this sequel to the 2018 Netflix Christmas hit, I suddenly realised how very little I could actually remember about the first movie. I know that Kurt Russell starred as probably the coolest Santa I’d seen in a very long time, Christmas was in jeopardy and there was a brief
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After experiencing the incredible Wolfwalkers at last months London Film Festival, I vowed to correct the enormous mistake that I’d made of having never seen a Cartoon Saloon movie before. Director Tomm Moore followed 2009’s Oscar-nominated The Secret of Kells with Song of the Sea, which was also nominated for an Oscar in 2015 but
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I’m always excited when another new Christmas movie comes along, especially when it looks as fresh and exciting as Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey does. Writer and director David E Talbert originally conceived this story as a musical play, but it now finds its home on Netflix as a feature film, and just in time
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The Ringmaster, aka Finale, is a 2018 Danish horror feature film written and directed by Søren Juul Petersen. It is based on Steen Langstrups award-winning book from 2011 ‘Alt det hun ville ønske hun ikke forstod’ (Everything that she wished she did not understand’) and deals with themes involving man’s need for extreme entertainment and
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If by any chance you’re feeling nostalgic for the days of VHS videotapes, then Rent-A-Pal is here to satisfy that craving. Set in Denver during 1990, VHS video features rather heavily throughout Rent-A-Pal, from the retro font used in the opening titles to the closeups of videotapes being inserted into a VCR, the internal mechanism
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In New Zealand comedy, Dead, Marbles (Thomas Sainsbury) can see ghosts, thanks to a purple solution made up of marijuana and neurological medication, which when injected, gives him approximately one hour of seeing them. He’s currently using this precious gift to help people who have lost friends and family, and opening scenes see Marbles acting
