Overlord follows a group of WWII soldiers on a mission to bring down a radio tower in a remote French town. It opens with our team of soldiers traveling by plane, one of a large number of aircraft and warships all heading towards enemy territory during the dead of night. As they near their destination, […]
I’m not familiar with the book that this Netflix show is based on, but then from what I understand this is meant to be more a ‘remix’ of the book anyway. All I can say though is, faithful to the book or not, this is without a doubt one of the most incredibly brilliant shows
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The El Royale is a bi-state establishment. A painted red line runs straight through the centre of the car park and right through the centre of reception, leading to a jukebox. One half of this hotel lies in Nevada, the other half in California. The rooms on the California side are a little more expensive
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As David Kim (John Cho) searches for his missing daughter, the investigation and discussions he has with others all unfolds before our eyes. Taking place entirely on computer and mobile phone screens, pulling together clues and information from social media, messaging services and CCTV. While there have been a couple of fairly decent horror movies
I’m a big fan of The Conjuring movies. The original is one of my favourite scary movies, and while I enjoyed the sequel, for me it just didn’t live up to the very high bar set by the first. Creepy doll Annabelle from the first movie landed her own disappointing outing, followed by a surprisingly
I’ve just left the cinema having seen the highly anticipated movie Hereditary and I’m in shock. Not because it’s scary, or unsettling, or any of the other things that so many other glowing reviews have mentioned. No, I’m in shock because I don’t think I’ve ever been in a cinema where so many people have
This review is possibly a little unfair, as I actually managed to fall asleep watching Murder On The Orient Express. In a busy cinema, early evening on a Sunday. I’ve only ever managed to do this a couple of times previously – once, while watching a midnight screening of Star Wars: The Force Awakens (I’m
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It’s not that scary, and there’s no real blood or gore for die hard horror fans to enjoy, but Happy Death Day – the latest offering from Blumhouse Productions – still manages to deliver a wildly entertaining mashup of Groundhog Day and Scream. College girl Tree Gelbman wakes up in the dorm of a boy
I’m a big fan of The Conjuring. It’s easily one of my favourite scary movies in recent years, successfully hitting the right notes for me when it comes to big scares. I wasn’t such a fan of the opening scenes featuring Annabelle though, and The Conjuring 2 didn’t quite do it for me either, so
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I headed into ‘It Comes At Night’ in a similar way to when I saw ‘Get Out‘ a few months back – having seen a lot of positive four or five star buzz about it on my news feeds, but without actually seeing the trailer. I skimmed a couple of reviews this time, just to
So, I’ve gone from absolutely hating American Gods after episode 1, to absolutely loving it after episode 4!
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I haven’t read the book, which probably explains why I hated this so much. Throwing stylised imagery, slow-mo bloody violence and sex at a viewer will only get you so far before you actually need to introduce some sort of point or plot to a show. I’ve read elsewhere that ‘You’re not supposed to know
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Amazingly, I managed to head into Get Out having not even seen the trailer for it. Posts about the movie had been appearing more and more frequently on my news feeds recently though, usually accompanied by a lot of positive buzz, and usually featuring an image of lead character Chris, wide eyed and terrified, with
I finally got the chance to watch the final two episodes of The OA yesterday. After its Netflix debut on December 16, and following only a brief mysterious trailer the week before announcing its impending arrival, I managed to watch the first six episodes in quick succession just before Christmas. Real life then took over
The past few months have seen wave after wave of five star reviews for Arrival following its various festival screenings. All of them offering such high praise as ‘a sci-fi masterpiece’, ‘an instant classic’, ‘must-see’, ‘beautiful, ‘the thinking persons sci-fi’. The simple trailer does a wonderful job of layering up the mystery and tension, without
Scarlett is a modern day Indiana Jones, a student of history and alchemy who likes to play at being tomb raider. The movie begins with her in Iran, investigating some underground caves moments before they are about to be blown up. Discovering a hidden room she finds the key to help her on the next
