You’re Next
I wish I’d been around in the ’80s. Sure there’d be Thatcherism and bad hair to contend with, but there’d be a new slasher film in the cinema every week. […]
Category Archives: New Releases
What Maisie Knew
Directed by Scott McGehee and David Siegel, this new drama is a modernisation of a novel by Henry James. Onata Aprile plays Maisie, a child stuck in the middle of her […]
Elysium
It’s been a sad summer for cinema. Several major Hollywood films have slumped at the box office like The Lone Ranger, After Earth and White House Down while those that have […]
2 Guns
Another day, another comic book adaptation. But thankfully it’s not superheroes this time – it’s an action/comedy starring Denzel Washington and Mark Wahlberg as two criminals each hiding their true […]
Call Girl
No, Call Girl is not the sequel to last year’s big bag of hate For a Good Time, Call…, nor is it the long-awaited big-screen adaptation of ITV2’s Secret Diary of a Call Girl. It’s actually […]
Kick-Ass 2
In a summer full of identical superhero movies, it’s a relief to see 2010’s Kick-Ass followed up in its uniquely uncompromising style. Hit-Girl and Kick-Ass are back, but she’s starting high school and […]
Blancanieves
What’s this? Another Snow White movie? But we already had Snow White and the Hunstman and Mirror Mirror last year! Make something new already! Not so fast… In what has […]
Only God Forgives
As you may realise from the title, Only God Forgives is a look at the darker side of human nature. It starts out with a Bangkok drug dealer raping and […]
Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa
Aha! The long-awaited Alan Partridge movie has landed and it was well worth the wait. Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa sees Steve Coogan, Armando Iannucci and Peter Baynham reunite to bring us a […]
The Conjuring and The Marketing
The latest horror film to follow the grammatically questionable trend of having a title that follows “The” with a present participle is The Conjuring, directed by James Wan of Saw and Insidious fame. Or […]
Screen Goblin 