Halloween H20: 20 Years Later
Halloween H20: 20 Years Later is one of the world’s clumsiest titles, not least because the movie has nothing to do with water so it’s not even a pun. This […]
Author Archives: Dan Meier
Mirai
My Neighbour Totoro meets Addams Family Values in this Japanese tale of a young boy’s jealousy towards his new baby sister, until the family dog sees fit to intervene in […]
It Chapter Two
The It crowd is back (the coulrophobic rather than transphobic one) to battle an evil clown in It Chapter Two, or The Continued Decline of James McAvoy. 27 years after […]
Broadway Danny Rose
It’s hard to review a Woody Allen movie in the current climate without it seeming like we’re trying to make a point, so please rest assured there is no point. […]
Inna de Yard
From the director of Hannibal Rising comes another movie about going back to one’s roots, in this case a reggae supergroup (including Ken Boothe, Kiddus I, Judy Mowatt, Winston McAnuff […]
Don’t Look Now
First released in 1973 to give an entire generation a phobia of red raincoats, Don’t Look Now is restored in all its squirmy, permy glory. Based on Daphne du Maurier’s short […]
FrightFest 20: A Good Woman Is Hard to Find
It’s grim up north(ern Ireland) in Abner Pastoll’s thriller about young widowed mother Sarah (Sarah Bolger) whose home is invaded by a drug dealer (Andrew Simpson). This Belgian-Northern Irish co-production […]
FrightFest 20: Tales From the Lodge
A group of friends gather in the English countryside to scatter their friend’s ashes in horror anthology Tales From the Lodge. Writer/director Abigail Blackmore won this year’s Screen International Genre […]
FrightFest 20: The Black String
Malcolm in the Middle has a diddle and ends up riddled in this new chiller soon available at Lidl. Probably. After an advert for a dating service appears to address […]
FrightFest 20: Rabid (2019)
Today we go from rabbits to Rabid with the Soska Sisters’ remake of David Cronenberg’s classic armpit horror. “Why do we keep remaking old trends?” asks the self-referential opening line, […]
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