In The Earth is the latest film from director Ben Wheatley, a hallucinogenic trip into the woods that you definitely want to forget the next morning. Despite an intriguing opening act, the film descends into utter confusion which had me leaving the cinema scratching my head in despair. Known for unusual and/or cult films like […]
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My Heart Can’t Beat Unless You Tell It To is a 2021 horror drama and first feature film from writer-director Jonathan Cuartas. While the trailer might make this out to be a tense and terrifying horror, what actually unfolds is a slow-burning yet rather captivating family drama with a little vampirism thrown in. The film
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Godzilla vs. Kong is the fourth entry in Legendary Picture’s MonsterVerse, and promises a monster showdown that many have been waiting for (or in my case, vaguely interested in). While it definitely delivers on its promise of a monster brawl, unfortunately, we have to wait far too long and sit through a pointless story before
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Raya and the Last Dragon is the latest original animated offering from Disney Pixar, now available for general streaming on Disney+. It throws us into a stunning mythological eastern Asian world replete with quests, dragons and a thought-provoking story. The end result is everything you’d expect from a Disney Pixar film, it’s sadly just missing
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Triumph is a 2021 wrestling drama inspired by the true story of screenwriter Michael D. Coffey overcoming his disability. It’s a truly heartwarming and inspiring watch, although sadly it suffers from all of the usual clichés you see in an underdog sports film. The story follows Mike, a boy with cerebral palsy, and we first
Mare of Easttown is an American crime drama limited series that premiered on HBO and Sky Atlantic back in April. Starring Kate Winslet and a stellar supporting cast including the likes of Guy Pearce, Evan Peters and Julianne Nicholson, I was initially sceptical. However, while on the surface appearing to be a run of the
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Spiral: From the Book of Saw is, unsurprisingly, the latest film in the Saw movie franchise. Instead of being a reboot, remake or direct sequel, Spiral is set within the same universe a number of years after the death of John Kramer. The brainchild of self-confessed Saw super fan Chris Rock, I had high hopes
The Roads Not Taken is a 2020 drama from director Sally Potter, starring Javier Bardem and Elle Fanning. It is a tragic and painfully heartbreaking story of a writer with early-onset dementia, that sadly doesn’t quite fully realise its potential. The film follows Leo (Javier Bardem), a writer with early-onset dementia living in a grim
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Things Heard and Seen is a 2021 Netflix original released at the end of April. It’s part gothic horror, part supernatural drama, part thriller, with a bit of art history and religious iconography thrown in. While it sounds interesting, sadly this eclectic mix of themes and genres makes for nothing more than a rather confusing
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It’s been a long time since a blockbuster “of the Dead” zombie film hit our screens (since 2009 with Romero’s Survival of the Dead), so expectations of Zack Snyder’s Army of the Dead were high. I’m a huge fan of zombie films and after a mixed bag of a trailer I had my concerns, and
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Initiation is a 2020 horror film set within an American fraternity and sorority, that appeared in the trailer to be a generic trashy millennial horror that we’ve seen countless times before. However, the end result is a surprisingly serious yet gory horror with a very powerful storyline that sadly isn’t quite fully realised. Set on
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The Woman in the Window is a 2021 thriller that follows a similar story to that of the Hitchcock masterpiece Rear Window, but unfortunately despite a great cast, this doesn’t come close to the 1954 James Stewart classic. This Netflix original stars Amy Adams as Anna Fox, an agoraphobic child psychologist living in a large
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End of Sentence is a hearty indie drama set around a family road trip across Ireland, that originally premiered at the Edinburgh Film Festival in 2019. While the plot might not be particularly unique, the strength of this film is in the performances. The film opens on Sean Fogel (Logan Lerman), currently serving time in
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Love and Monsters is a 2020 monster apocalypse adventure film that hit the UK screens on Netflix in mid-April. With a low key, non-A list cast, it was released to fairly little fanfare or advertisement, which is a shame as many might miss what is in fact a hugely fun and entertaining watch. Directed by
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You’d have to have been hiding under a rock to not know that the much-awaited series 6 of Line of Duty has hit our screens. After all the hype, cliffhangers and the promise of finally revealing who the elusive “H” is, was it worth the wait? Yes… and no. Line of Duty is probably the
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Tom Clancy’s Without Remorse is, unsurprisingly, the latest film adaptation of a Tom Clancy novel, telling the origin story of a popular character, John Clark, from the Jack Ryan universe. While the popularity of Clancy’s novels is undeniable, Without Remorse is sadly one adaptation too far and offers us nothing but a dull, unoriginal take
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