Coming to select cinemas and on-demand from 1st November, Cellar Door certainly looked interestingly ominous from the trailer, with a couple who acquire a wonderful new home, on the condition that they must not open the locked cellar door. It’s an intriguing-sounding idea, but unfortunately, the final result falls way, way short of the mark. […]
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A pregnant woman experiences some spooky happenings while alone in her new home, before uncovering a disturbing family secret down in the basement and finding herself in a whole heap of nightmares in this German horror movie. And it turned out to be a very well-done and enjoyable thrill ride too. As always, things start
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From French director Alexandre Aja comes Never Let Go, starring Halle Berry as a mother trying to protect her sons in a post-apocalyptic world and hidden away in the woods. It’s a bit of a slow-burner for a while, while the rules of the world are established and repeated over and over again, before suddenly
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Low-budget filmmaker Graham Hughes follows up his 2019 movie ‘Death of a Vlogger’ with ‘Hostile Dimensions’, another found-footage horror involving the same cast and crew. Featuring some fun and clever ideas, it certainly gets off to a promising start. But sadly, the script and the acting eventually let it down, especially when the final act
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Alien: Romulus is the latest and seventh instalment in the Alien franchise to hit our screens. Directed by Fede Alvarez, the man behind Don’t Breathe and 2013’s Evil Dead, this film is set between the events of Alien and Aliens and is by far the best entry into the franchise since these two stellar originals.
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Harold and the Purple Crayon is based on a 1955 children’s picture book, which follows a curious young boy named Harold who has the power to create a world of his own simply by drawing it with his magic purple crayon. The film version stars Zachary Levi as a grown-up version of Harold and surprised
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A Quiet Place: Day One takes us right back to the moments leading up to, during, and after, the alien invasion that devastated Earth and left it in the state we found it in when the first movie was released back in 2018. While that movie, along with its 2020 sequel, focused on the Abbott
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Demonic possession and exorcist films appear to be experiencing a revival of late, with last year’s The Pope’s Exorcist and sequel The Exorcist: Believer. The Exorcism is the latest film in the genre to hit our screens and with an unofficial link to the original Exorcist and Russell Crowe hot off the surprisingly successful The
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In the mid-1990s, awkward seventh grader Owen (Justice Smith) meets ninth-grader Maddy (Brigette Lundy-Paine) at an afterschool event. Maddy is reading a guide for the popular teen show The Pink Opaque. While Owen hasn’t seen the show, he’s intrigued by a commercial he saw on television. Maddy invites him over to watch an episode. The
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When a young actress finds herself dumped after living through a cancer diagnosis, her life falls apart. Until she meets her unexpected new housemate, the Monster hiding in the closet. Melissa Barrera finds herself at the centre of another comedy-horror, following her work in the newer Scream films and her lead role in this year’s
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My Old Ass recently came to London as part of this years Sundance London Festival. Starring Maisy Stella and Aubrey Plaza, we follow Stella’s Elliott on her final summer before college as she partakes in hallucinogenic mushrooms and forms an unlikely connection with her future self, played by Plaza. Stella is insanely charismatic on screen.
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Releasing this week, Will Smith and Martin Lawrence are back for the fourth instalment in the Bad Boys franchise. Directors Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah return to the action following 2020’s Bad Boys for Life, picking up the over-the-top, fast-flying stunts from the opening scene. As a first-time viewer of the franchise, I found
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From female screenwriter and director Coralie Fargeat comes The Substance, a body horror film that follows an aging celebrity (Demi Moore) who happens across a black market drug that will allow her to temporarily become a younger, better version of herself. Everything about The Substance is loud, from the bright primary colours of Elizabeth (Moore)’s
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Sting is the latest horror film to hit the cinemas, a creepy creature feature reminiscent of some of the 80s and 90s classics. While it doesn’t quite live up to those classics, it’s still a surprisingly fun and gory tale. The film opens in an apartment building in the middle of winter, with an old
Megalopolis exists. A film that renowned filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola has been trying to make for a rumoured 40 years, beset time and time again by delays and budgetary confinements, it finally got its world premiere at the recent 2024 Cannes Film Festival. Was it met with rounds of applause, a final victory lap for
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Anora is the latest film from Sean Baker, which stole the show at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival as an almost unanimous crowd pleasure and winner of the coveted Palme D’or. The film follows exotic dancer Ani, who meets Vanya, the son of a Russian oligarch and forms an unlikely connection and romance. Unfortunately, not
