When I first saw the preview for The Sparks Brothers, I was instantly intrigued, and eagerly counted down until the release date, 18 June. Then, when I checked the showtimes, I realized it was not playing at the theaters that had advertised it, and I would have to drive 45 minutes to see it. As […]
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Unearth is a bleak story involving two struggling farming families in rural Pennyslvania, and the eco-horror that is unleashed when fracking unearths and something lying deep beneath their farmland. Unearth is the directorial debut of Dorota Swies, who teams up with John C Lyons for this horror drama, coming to DVD and digital download from
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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Full disclosure, I absolutely loved the first Peter Rabbit film. I found it completely hilarious and cackled numerous times. The sequel did not make me laugh. I typically don’t watch straight-up kid movies anymore, because they’re not funny, and they are as annoying as the kids in the audience. This movie completely reminded me of
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The Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard picks up relatively soon after The Hitman’s Bodyguard. Ryan Reynolds’ Michael Bryce attempts to take a sabbatical after the events of the first film. His sabbatical doesn’t last long, when Sonia, played by Salma Hayek, crashes his vacation to ask for his help to save her husband from the mob. After they
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Across the UK, a micro-revolution is brewing. Changes brought in by the licensing act 2003 meant that any building could apply for a premises licence. So, in 2005, Kent beer enthusiast Martyn Hillier took advantage of this change, turning his struggling off-licence into a micropub, The Butchers Arms. Martyn is credited with kicking off the
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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
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
While we patiently wait for the return of John Wick and another dose of bad guy ass-kicking action from Keanu Reeves, along comes another movie to fill the void. Written by Derek Kolstad, who actually created and wrote the John Wick franchise, Nobody has a very similar feel about it to the John Wick movies.
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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As I browsed my Regal app on Thursday evening, I saw a film that I hadn’t heard of before, Bo Gia, a Vietnamese film. I was intrigued that it was placed into the megaplex theater, rather than the indie theater, and there were also multiple showtimes. I figured that there must be something about this
Sailor Moon Eternal was basically the fourth season of the original anime, called Sailor Moon SuperS. This means that there was zero context. If you didn’t watch or read Sailor Moon, you would have no idea as to what was going on. I’ve been watching and reading Sailor Moon since the 1990s, so that wasn’t
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Back in 2018, A Quiet Place was just a wonderful surprise, full of prolonged edge-of-seat drama and tension along with wonderfully executed jump scares. And, if you were watching it in the cinema with a crowd of people, it also demonstrated that humans are in fact incapable of keeping quiet. Some people seem to be
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Cruella is the newest live-action adaptation of a cartoon character that Disney decided to give us. I only went to see the movie because there was nothing else out in the theater this weekend. At an overly long, bloated run time of 2 hours and 12 minutes, we get the entire life story of Cruella,
