Film Reviews

Cert – 15, Run-time – 1 hour 38 minutes, Director – William Brent Bell The story of how ‘Esther’ (Isabelle Fuhrman) escaped from an Estonian psychological hospital and ended up committing killing sprees in America. The twist of 2009’s Orphan almost seems enough alone to have provided reason for the horror having become a much […]

Cert – PG, Run-time – 1 hour 45 minutes, Directors – Jared Stern, Sam Levine When Superman (John Krasinski) and the rest of the Justice League are kidnapped by a vengeful guinea pig (Kate McKinnon) his dog, Krypto (Dwayne Johnson), assembles a team of superpowered pets to save them. There’s an undeniably starry cast leading […]

Cert – U, Run-time – 1 hour 28 minutes, Director – Kyle Balda After stealing a powerful jewel from his favourite supervillain team, nearly-12-year-old Gru (Steve Carell) finds himself kidnapped, with only his team of minions (Pierre Coffin) to save him. Back in 2015 when the minions embarked on their first spin-off feature outing my […]

Cert – 12, Run-time – 2 hours 27 minutes, Director – Colin Trevorrow As dinosaurs and creatures with cretaceous DNA begin to wreak havoc across the world the risk of human extinction rapidly increases, with the cause linking back to a major genetic company Biosyn. I recently read somewhere on the internet someone claiming that […]

Cert – 15, Run-time – 1 hour 57 minutes, Director – Eskil Vogt A group of children who appear to have telekinetic powers begin to experiment with their abilities, however some find themselves less able to control their minds than others. Back in 2008 British horror film The Children explored the idea of child minds […]

Cert – 18, Run-time – 1 hour 22 minutes, Director – David Blue Garcia A group of young entrepreneurs looking to revive an abandoned, small Texan town encounter an angered and lingering, chainsaw-wielding Leatherface (Mark Burnham). “This is a chance for people to start over fresh, away from the madness and the violence” words spoken […]

Cert – 15, Run-time – 1 hour 47 minutes, Director – Joanna Hogg Student filmmaker Julie’s (Honor Swinton Byrne) graduation film becomes a lookback in multiple ways as she attempts to capture her past relationship, after her partner passed away from an overdose. 2019’s The Souvenir perhaps gained something of an eventually mixed reception. It […]

Cert – 12, Run-time – 1 hour 51 minutes, Director – Fran Kranz Six years after a school shooting the parents of one of the victims (Jason Isaacs, Martha Plimpton) meet with those of the shooter (Ann Dowd, Reed Birney) to discuss the tragedy, its effects and what built up to it. “The world mourned ten, […]

Cert – 15, Run-time – 2 hours 14 minutes, Director – Paul Thomas Anderson 25 year old Alana (Alana Haim) and 15 year old Gary (Cooper Hoffman) spark a budding friendship through various business ventures together after the latter asks the former out on a date. There’s something about a group of teenagers casually sitting, […]