Dr. Death is based upon the podcast by the same name and features the horrific neurosurgeon, Christopher Duntsch (Joshua Jackson). Duntsch is purportedly a great surgeon, as far as his mentors are concerned. This is quickly found to not be the case by Doctors Randall Kirby (Christian Slater), and Robert Henderson (Alec Baldwin), who was […]
Beckett is the latest Netflix release, an action thriller set in Greece about an American tourist who finds himself in the wrong place at the wrong time. After brilliant performances in the likes of Tenet and BlacKkKlansman, I watched this purely because of John David Washington. However, sadly this film is lacking in everything we’ve
Coming to Netflix on 25th August, Post Mortem: No One Dies in Skarnes is a vampire comedy-drama, the third Netflix title to come from Norwegian production company Motion Blue. For me, it definitely leans more toward drama than comedy, delivering an interesting and entertaining story of a girl who’s desperately trying to keep her newfound
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Prospect is an indie sci-fi thriller due for release on Amazon Prime. With a synopsis that promises an epic to rival the work of Ridley Scott and Christopher Nolan, expectations were incredibly high. And while this doesn’t really come close to these lofty ideals, for a low budget sci-fi it’s surprisingly good. The film is
Old is the latest release from M. Night Shyamalan, a mysterious tale of rapid ageing based on a graphic novel called Sandcastle by Pierre Oscar Levy and Frederik Peeters. With an intriguing premise and trailer, I was excited to see how Old turns out, especially as Shyamalan’s previous offerings have been both hit (Split, The
Altered Carbon is a Netflix sci-fi series based on the novel of the same name by Richard K. Morgan. Season 1 aired back in 2018, with the second, and sadly last, season following in February 2020. The main plot centres around the idea that in the future human consciousness is stored on ‘stacks’ – devices
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The Auschwitz Escape (AKA The Auschwitz Report) features the true story behind the Vrba-Wetzler report, which was instrumental in highlighting the atrocities taking place in Germany’s concentration camps, and was Slovakia’s submission for Best International Feature Film for the 2021 Oscar. While the film definitely illustrates the stark bleakness of the camps, the events depicted
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The film Stillwater is based upon and exploits the Amanda Knox story. Swapping Italy for the town of Marseille, France, Allison (Abigail Breslin), an American university student is convicted of killing her girlfriend, Lina. Bill (Matt Damon), Allison’s estranged father, visits her regularly in prison and is convinced of her innocence. The majority of the
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The Green Knight, based upon the poem, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, does the poem justice. We join our relatively pure-hearted Sir Gawain (Dev Patel) on Christmas morning, as he wakes in what appears to be a brothel. He rushes home to his Mother (Sarita Choudhury), to change for the Christmas Day feast with
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The Last Letter From Your Lover is the story of a doomed love affair, recounted over two different periods in time. It is an adaptation of the bestselling book by Jojo Moyes, who also wrote Me Before You, another novel that made it to the big screen and starred Emilia Clarke and Sam Claflin. Not
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Georgetown, based upon the true story of a grifter, starring Christoph Waltz, Vanessa Redgrave, and Annette Bening, is the directorial debut of Christoph Waltz. Waltz plays Ulrich Mott, who marries an older, affluent widow, Elsa Breht (Redgrave), to climb the social ladder in Washington DC. Elsa’s daughter, Amanda (Bening) is understandably suspicious of Mott, for
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Body Brokers is based upon the very real fraud scam that occurs in the Substance Use Disorder (SUD)treatment world in the USA. The situation itself may seem completely foreign to anyone outside of the USA, and probably extremely horrifying. For background, I am well aware of this scheme, because I work in health care fraud,
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Fear Street Part 2: 1978 is the second of a trilogy of films being released weekly on Netflix, based on the book series of the same name by R.L Stine. Despite claiming in my review for part 1 that I wouldn’t drop everything to watch the second film, curiosity got the best of me and
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Fear Street Part One: 1994 is the first in a trilogy of films released on Netflix, based on the supernatural book series by R.L Stine. Packed full of film references and 90s nostalgia, the first part of this trilogy is a fairly entertaining watch. The film opens on a young woman, Heather (Maya Hawke), working
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Alone is a tense thriller that follows a fairly simple narrative, the kind of thing you feel you’ve no doubt seen a hundred times before in other movies. I was definitely intrigued by the trailer, even though I felt it had possibly laid out far too many plot points. But while that is certainly the
Shadow and Bone is based upon the popular Young Adult series, The Grisha Trilogy, which takes place in a steampunk-ish, Russian fantasy world at war. The story’s main character is Alina Starkov (Jessie Mei Li), an orphan who discovers she has some magical powers when she journeys into something called the Fold with her childhood
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