Film Review

WARNING - SPOILERS AHEAD A dark comedy with an intellectual heart, Killing Poe is a wonderfully novel film with surprises at every corner. Five students all enrolled in the same lacklustre Edgar Allen Poe class work together to…

The directorial debut of Harvard John, Sticky Toffee Pudding follows a group of students in their final year of boarding school. While Shelby (Samuel Nicholls) is mourning the death of his best friend Hephzibah (Abi Watkinson), his friends…

Spy Intervention - a new action / comedy / adventure from director Drew Mylrea and writers Mark Famiglietti and Lane Garrison (don't worry, I've never hear of them either) - must make for one of the most painful viewing experiences I've…

Remember when Parasite won Best Picture at the Oscars? Seems like a world away doesn't it? In fact, that halcyon day was only five months ago. The day when Bong Joon-Ho's South Korean masterpiece became the first foreign language film to…

Jacki Weaver takes centre stage in Stage Mother. A bittersweet tale of acceptance and forgiveness, all wrapped up in hosiery, hairspray and high heels. When a conservative church choir leader inherits her late son's San Francisco gay…

Abby (Tuppence Middleton) is a troubled young woman who, when a child, witnessed the abduction of a boy at a beauty spot near the famous Niagara Falls. Scared of not being believed Abby kept what she saw a secret, only telling her sister…

Beanie Feldstein faces up to Sleeping With The NME in the big screen adaptation of Caitlin Moran's semi-autobiographical novel How To Build A Girl. Feldstein plays Johanna Morrigan, a 14 year-old girl desperate to leave the shackles of…

Nothing really happens in Lake of Death, much like nothing would one imagines, during a relaxing week spent on the tranquil shores of the lake at the heart of the new drama from Norwegian writer / director Nini Bull Robsahm. However,…

Black Water Abyss offers up a claustrophobic thriller for film fans chomping at the bit to get back to the cinema. The Descent meets Crawl as five friends exploring a remote cave system in Northern Australia find themselves in danger…

WARNING - SPOILERS AHEAD. Everyone wants good neighbours. When Sarah (Nicole Brydon Bloom), a young woman newly arriving in Los Angeles, finds a seemingly perfect apartment complex with friendly, helpful residents, she can’t wait to…