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By day Chris handles press and PR for a trade association that represents pubs. By night he moonlights on various websites, including this one. Chris studied film at university and has a master's degree in journalism. He attributes his love of film to a man called Tim something and Dennis Weaver's panicky expression in Duel.

Film Review

Imitation Girl (2017)

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Life imitates art (literally) in Natasha Kermani’s thoughtful and dreamy Imitation Girl which sees a physically flawless but emotionally naïve alien reproduction of Lauren Ashley Carter’s porn starlet heroine crash land in the desert.…
DVD Review

XX (2016)

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The level of buzz surrounding XX has certainly outstripped anything greeting a portmanteau genre piece such as this for a while. Screened to much fanfare recently at London’s renowned Prince Charles Cinema, this all-girl horror anthology is…
Film Review

White Coffin (2016)

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White Coffin is less a movie and more of a free run at a buffet. It’s like a plate overloaded with snacks and savoury treats. Little horror sausage rolls balanced precariously on top of tiny horror quiches and crisps. It’s a triple-decker…
Film Review

Cell (2016)

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The 2016 edition of the annual gore-fest or schlock-fest or scream-fest, FrightFest got under way last night at its new digs adjacent to a branch of JD Wetherspoon in London’s glittering Shepherd’s Bush. One of the movies chosen to proudly…
Film Review

Ghostbusters (2016)

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You get the feeling that poor old Paul Feig was likely to face a mountain of criticism whatever the outcome of his Ghostbusters reboot. The remake of the universally-loved 1984 classic has come in for some pretty extreme flak in the run-up…
Film Review

The Club (2015)

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Pablo Larrain’s desolate drama The Club takes a windblown hike over the hills and down into the dark night of the soul. Dealing with a group of disgraced priests packed off, out-of-sight and out-of-mind, to a seaside retreat; this is…
Film Review

10 Cloverfield Lane (2016)

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It is becoming an increasingly rare treat for movies such as 10 Cloverfield Lane to fly under the radar and succeed in surprising an unexpected public. Producers J. J. Abrams and Lindsey Weber have succeeded in sneaking out a high profile…
Film Review

The Ones Below (2015)

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David Farr is clearly looking to make his audience squirm with The Ones Below, an aloof and frosty psychological thriller that sees suburban bliss turn into a nightmare for a couple of affluent Londoners. Full of passive aggressive tension…
Film Review

The Witch (2015)

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Sparse, fantastically eerie and boasting a hellish sense of isolation, this understated horror from debutante Robert Eggers is hypnotically unpleasant and absolutely superb. There’s such a peculiar sense of otherworldliness at work here,…
Film Review

Creed (2016)

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There is an interview available to watch on YouTube in which Sylvester Stallone, promoting the vastly underrated Cop Land, discusses his growth as an actor and transition to more serious work. Stallone talks interestingly about how he…