Reviews

Initially, Darren Aronofsky’s symbolic nightmare is a driving force in shock and awe, garishly spinning the brain into a haze of exhausting disbelief trying to piece together the oddly macabre manifestation which takes the route of utter,…

Quentin Tarantino. Edgar Wright. Dan Bush. Spot the odd one out. Easy, right? Okay, so at the moment it might feel like a stretch, but the latter one may not be quite so odd or out in a year or so. Within the first two minutes of Dan Bush's…

Frightfest 2017 hosted the European Premiere of Royce Gorsuch's feature-length debut, the reality-altering Mindhack: #savetheworld.Or did it? It did. Lauded as a cross between Hackers and The Rules of Attraction (it's not), Mindhack finds…

Sometimes you can just tell when an artistic endeavour - a piece of art, music, literature or film - comes from the heart. There's something about it that just, works. Such is the case with The Terror of Hallow's Eve, the new fantasy…

Better Watch Out feels like two films stitched together, each of which, individually, would have made for an engaging - if slightly unoriginal - in-peril chiller. Instead the marriage of the two jars, as they simply don't sit together…

You take your life in your hands if, as a FrightFest attendee, you admit publicly that you neither get - or really like - films from the Hatchet franchise. The premieres of these gore laden exercises in ultra violence by creator / writer /…

From Con Air to Tomb Raider, to The Expandables, Simon West’s name is synonymous with the big budget Hollywood action films so to take on an extremely low-budget affair in an attempt to give it an injection of West explosives could have…

A story of love in the Yorkshire Dales rains down on its gloomy and lonely existence in the vast sprawling hills of homosexual encounters in first time director, Francis Lee’s Gods Own Country with a fierce yet calm ferocity reminiscent of…

Watching some films you can't help question the reasoning for - or even legitimacy of - its subject matter being used in what is, after all, a source of entertainment. Take for instance Jackals, the new horror / thriller from director Kevin…

Perhaps this new documentary / Hollywood exposé would have been better entitled 'Mansfield / LaVey 66/67'. Though its focus is clearly based around the confused and troubled final years of the American starlet Jayne Mansfield, much of the…