Kindred is a psychological thriller/horror about the reluctantly pregnant Charlotte (Tamara Lawrance) after her boyfriend, Ben (Edward Holcroft), dies in a workplace accident. After this accident, Charlotte is taken in by Ben’s mother (Fiona Shaw), and creepy stepbrother, Thomas (Jack Lowden). They proceed to basically torture her and question her sanity. Prior to the accident, […]
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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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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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
Mare of Easttown is an American crime drama limited series that premiered on HBO and Sky Atlantic back in April. Starring Kate Winslet and a stellar supporting cast including the likes of Guy Pearce, Evan Peters and Julianne Nicholson, I was initially sceptical. However, while on the surface appearing to be a run of the
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Before I began writing my review for season two of Black Summer, which arrives on Netflix later this week, I checked over my review for season one. To be honest, I could pretty much copy most of what I wrote for that season and paste it into the review for this one, as it all
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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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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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Things Heard and Seen is a 2021 Netflix original released at the end of April. It’s part gothic horror, part supernatural drama, part thriller, with a bit of art history and religious iconography thrown in. While it sounds interesting, sadly this eclectic mix of themes and genres makes for nothing more than a rather confusing
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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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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,
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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After joining forces with Netflix in 2017, Mark Millar (of Kick-Ass and Kingsman fame) now brings the graphic novel he created along with artist Frank Quitely in 2013 to the small screen, with all 8 episodes are now available to stream. Spanning 90 years, Jupiter’s Legacy is an epic story of six ordinary people who
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You’d have to have been hiding under a rock to not know that the much-awaited series 6 of Line of Duty has hit our screens. After all the hype, cliffhangers and the promise of finally revealing who the elusive “H” is, was it worth the wait? Yes… and no. Line of Duty is probably the
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