It’s no secret that The Conjuring is one of my favourite scary movies, I think I’ve probably mentioned it when reviewing the many inferior entries that have arrived in The Conjuring universe since (see The Nun or some of the Annabelle movies). The Devil Made Me Do It is now the eighth movie set in […]
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The synopsis for Vanquish describes it as a “dynamic action thriller” about a former drug runner who’s forced into carrying out five very dangerous pickups in one night. Written and directed by George Gallo (Bad Boys, Midnight Run), Vanquish stars Morgan Freeman and Ruby Rose, so you would hope that it would at least be
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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Final Account is a Holocaust documentary film, made over the course of nearly ten years by Jewish filmmaker, Luke Holland (d. 2020). Holland travelled around Germany and Austria, interviewing ex-SS Officers, citizens, and civilian workers that participated in World War II. When I saw this film appear in the schedule at my local theater, my
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I went into The Unholy having seen nothing but a few screenshots and a brief synopsis, which described it as being a religious horror. To be honest, it was day one of Cineworld reopening its doors, and I hadn’t seen a movie on the big screen since last October when I watched another religious horror
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Guy Ritchie’s newest film, Wrath of Man, is based upon a French film called le Convoyeur, or ‘Cash Truck’. It’s one of the first ‘big’ films that’s only been released in theaters here in the US. The film was broken into chapters, with different timelines. The opening scene is a violent armoured truck robbery, which
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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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Profile is based upon the true story of a French journalist who went undercover online to report on how ISIS recruits young, recently converted, European women to the jihadi cause. This film uses the same narrative style as Searching, everything is witnessed via screens, and it really works for this story. In Profile, the journalist
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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I will preface this by stating I have not watched the Demon Slayer show, nor did I read a synopsis of what had happened prior to the characters getting onto the Mugen Train. I wanted to see this film for two reasons, 1) It’s the largest grossing Anime of all time apparently, in Japan and
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Since graduating four years ago, Michael (Charlie Tahan) hasn’t really done very much with his degree. His girlfriend Amy (Sarah Mezzanotte) left and moved to New York nine months ago and Michael now spends his nights driving the college campus bus, known as the “drunk bus”. The bus drives in a loop around Kent, Ohio,
You know when you watch a movie, and you’re completely entertained during it, but afterwards, all you remember is the action portions and none of the plot? That’s me right now, after watching this movie just a little less than three hours ago. I’ll get this out of the way, the plot was obviously forgettable.
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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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Movies taking place entirely on a laptop or mobile screen are nothing new. Probably the most impressive and effective example, in my opinion anyway, is the 2018 movie Searching starring John Cho. But then last year saw filmmakers embracing the restrictions imposed by the pandemic, resulting in the brilliant Zoom based movie Host. Safer at
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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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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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