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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Back in March 2020, we featured the trailer for an animated movie called Connected in one of our TrailerChat posts, an action-comedy about an ordinary family tasked with the job of saving the world from a robot apocalypse. Scheduled for an October release, team CineChat were all well and truly sold on the trailer… well,
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After months of hype and award nominations, Sound of Metal has finally arrived on our screens courtesy of Amazon Prime. And boy was it worth the wait. Written and directed by Darius Marder (writer of The Place Beyond the Pines), Sound of Metal follows Ruben Stone (Riz Ahmed), a heavy metal drummer in a fairly
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Fear of Rain is a 2021 psychological thriller written and directed by Castille Brandon, which follows a young woman with schizophrenia struggling to deal with her hallucinations. While this tries very hard to make you as a viewer question what’s real and what isn’t, ultimately it comes off as a little too predictable. Madison Iseman
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“FEAR has two meanings: Forget Everything And Run. Or, Face Everything And Rise. The choice is yours” A sickness has spread, restricting travel and resulting in the introduction of curfews and checkpoints. The military had to get involved, building walls through the mountains before leaving, cutting people off from the outside world. As more people
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I feel like I have been waiting a really long time to write this review. But nowhere near as long as us poor Brits have been waiting for the release of this film. Promising Young Woman finally arrives in the UK today via Sky. If you managed to avoid any and all spoilers over this
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Here Are the Young Men is a 2021 Irish drama written directed by Eoin Macken, based on the book of the same name by Rob Doyle. With its surreal scenes, it almost feels like it’s trying to be a modern-day Irish version of Trainspotting for the younger generation, and while it no doubt represents teenage
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In Planes Trains and Automobiles, there’s a moment when Neil Page (Steve Martin) finally snaps, ripping into his annoying travel companion Dell Griffith, (John Candy). He tells him the way people usually approach telling stories, saying “You choose things that are funny or mildly amusing or interesting”, before hitting him with the line “you’re a
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Arriving on Netflix today, Thunder Force is a superhero comedy about two childhood friends who reunite as adults to become a superhero team. It stars real-life friends of more than 20 years, Melissa McCarthy and Octavia Spencer and is written, directed and produced by McCarthy’s husband, Ben Falcone. Taking us back to 1983, much of
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From the team that brought you V/H/S, Sea Fever and Becky, Portal (FKA Doors) is a collection of four separate stories, from four different directors, but all related to the same worldwide event. That event is the arrival of a number of mysterious alien “doors” that suddenly appear around the globe and follows our attempts
Antebellum is a 2020 thriller film from debut writer-directors Gerard Bush and Christopher Renz, the trailer for which implied it was a mind-bending, time-travelling horror story set during the times of slavery in America. However Antebellum never manages to live up to what it promised, turning out instead to be a rather dull and predictable
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The wait is finally over, after what feels like eons since the US release, Run finally arrived on UK shores via Netflix on the 2nd April. Was it worth the wait? Teenager Chloe (Kiera Allen) lives at home with caring mother Diane (Sarah Paulson). Chloe is driven and independent, but due to a myriad of
The Mauritanian is a slow procedural drama that at times can be incredibly slow, but this pace feels earned when the shocking developments in the film arrive. A defense attorney and her associate (Jodie Foster and Shailene Woodley respectively) investigate the case of a suspected 9/11 terrorist imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Throughout their investigation,
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“The noise is a man’s thoughts unfiltered and without a filter, a man is just chaos walking.” From director Doug Liman, Chaos Walking is based on the first of a trilogy of young adult science fiction books – 2008’s ‘The Knife of Never Letting Go’, by Patrick Ness. Starring Daisy Ridley and Tom Holland, along
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If you’ve already seen the Korean zombie survival movie #Alive, currently streaming on Netflix, you’ll begin to get a strong feeling of deja vu as you watch Final Days (FKA Alone). It turns out that Matt Naylor, who wrote #Alive, also had a hand in writing this American version, with both movies coming out during
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Sensation is a 2021 sci-fi thriller from Slovakian director Martin Grof, the latest in a long line of films to feature people with superhuman abilities. The plot here focuses on a group of people with newly discovered sensory powers that can influence and control the senses of others, as they’re confined within a large manor
