Shaun the Sheep: Farmageddon
There are certain characters you wouldn’t dream of sending into space (Sister Mary Clarence, James Bond) and others for whom it makes a strange kind of sense. It worked for […]
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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 […]
Quiz Call: 976-EVIL
Category is: ‘Films with numbers in the title’ – ironic that a Quiz Call answer would be a film about a cursed phone line. Freddy Krueger himself (Robert Englund) directs […]
Memoirs of a Geisha
A young girl, Chiyo (Suzuka Ohgo), is sold to a Kyoto geisha school by her struggling parents where she’s kept as a slave, eventually becoming a top geisha, threatening the […]
ROH: Frankenstein
Frankenstein is one of the most-told works of classic literature. On this blog we’ve reviewed the Boris Karloff version, a Christopher Lee version, the Gene Wilder/Mel Brooks version and even […]
Incredibles 2
When it comes to sequels, Pixar and baby Jack-Jack have something in common: the Terrible Twos. Monsters University was about as welcome as Freshers’ Flu, and the less said about […]
Truth or Dare
A group of cocky teenagers are lured into a cursed drinking game in Truth or Dare, a horror film about as palatable as a dirty pint. Blumhouse’s Truth or Dare […]
Princess Mononoke
A demonic curse leads the young prince Ashitaka (Yōji Matsuda) to San (Yuriko Ishida) AKA Princess Mononoke; a raised-by-wolves eco-warrior and a princess in name only, like Leia or Eugenie. The war between civilisation […]
Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story
Celebrities dabbling as inventors is nothing new; who can forget Will.i.am’s smart watch that (inadvertently) doubles as a needle for drawing blood, or Gwyneth Paltrow’s bath salts that mask natural […]
Pearl Jam: Let’s Play Two
Highlighting Pearl Jam’s two-night stint at Wrigley Field, which coincided with the Chicago Cubs’ World Series victory in 2016, Pearl Jam: Let’s Play Two is a unique cross between a concert film and a baseball […]
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