Boss Level is a 2021 Amazon Prime original, a new take on the Groundhog Day format. In this film, it’s ex-soldier Roy (Frank Grillo) who repeats the same day over and over, with every day culminating in his death. It’s a format that has quite frankly been done to death, but despite this Boss Level […]
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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
Fear Street Part 3: 1666 is the final part of a trilogy of films that have been released weekly on Netflix, and is based on the book series of the same name by R.L Stine. My feelings towards parts 1 and 2 do differ slightly from Sarah, who reviewed both for us (see here and
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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
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,
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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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
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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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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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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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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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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