Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Before Buffy the Vampire Slayer became the greatest TV show of all time, it was a 1992 film, and the first big-screenwriting credit for a young Joss Whedon. As in “Whedon’t talk […]
Category Archives: Reviews
All Eyez on Me
After appearing in Notorious and Straight Outta Compton, it’s about time that Tupac got his own film. All Eyez on Me is a whistlestop tour of his entire life, from […]
Black Shampoo
Mr Jonathan (John Daniels) is a sexy hairdresser with a libido as big as his afro, who does more for his favourite customers than just their hair, presumably in violation […]
War for the Planet of the Apes
If you want a masterclass in how to update a classic franchise into a slick, modern, engrossing sci-fi thriller, look no further than the Apes trilogy, which began in 2011 […]
The Beguiled
Set in rural Mississippi during the Civil War, The Beguiled finds a wounded northern soldier (Colin Farrell) taken in by the ‘Farnsworth Seminary for Young Ladies’. Sofia Coppola remakes this Clint Eastwood film […]
It Comes At Night and Post-Horror Post-Mortem
The Guardian recently ran an article proclaiming the birth of “post-horror“, its chief example being Trey Edward Shults’ It Comes At Night. Set in a post-apocalyptic future where a virus […]
Spider-Man: Homecoming
Everyone’s favourite web-slinging wunderkind is back in his latest incarnation, played by plucky embryo Tom Holland. That’s right, the latest Spider-Man movie will bring the iconic superhero to a whole […]
Baby Driver
It’s standard practice: walking around, listening to music and imagining you’re in a movie. We’ve all done it; Edgar Wright’s gone and made it. Baby Driver is not a prequel […]
Video Nasty 59: Let Sleeping Corpses Lie
Let Sleeping Corpses Lie is a Spanish-Italian zombie film from 1974. It has more than 15 titles internationally, including Don’t Open the Window (the film has literally nothing to do with windows) and The […]
The Invention of Lying
Set in a world where no-one can tell a lie, or, apparently, withhold their opinion at all, The Invention of Lying follows a failing screenwriter, Ricky Gervais, playing a failing […]
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