Film Review

With A Good Woman is Hard to Find (2019), director Abner Pastoll demonstrates that his work is nothing if not surprising. Where his previously best known feature - the disturbing Road Games (2015) - let things bubble along with tones of…

Elijah Wood must face up to some extreme daddy issues in Ant Timpson's darkly comic horror Come To Daddy. It is nice to see Wood make a return to the horror genre following 2012's hugely underrated remake of Maniac. Norvel Greenwood…

Forensic pathologist Paul Herzfeld (Moritz Bleibtreu) is on the trail of a serial killer who has abducted his daughter Hannah (Barbara Prakopenka) and hidden her on a remote island off the north coast of Germany. With the help of Linda…

Eddie Marsan puts the "shock" into Shock Jock in Feedback, a thriller debuting at #Frightfest2019 by director Pedro C. Alonso that dials the tension all the way up to 11.

If you are one of those people that bemoan the fact the San Diego Comic Con has become too focused on film franchises and Funkos, then Geek, And You Shall Find is the documentary for you. As a famous comic book character once said,…

This year's Fighting Spirit Film Festival proudly presents special screenings of Loi Bao and The Mercenary at the Picturehouse Cinema, Stratford. The Fighting Spirit Film Festival (FSFF) is a celebration of martial arts and action…

With a career that spans almost 40 years, Pedro Almodóvar has established himself as a modern-day filmmaker. While his films are not CGI-laden blockbusters, they always deliver an emotionality that is both rare and unique. His latest film…

When it comes to cartoons turned live-action adaptations, Dora the Explorer doesn't exactly spring to mind. Created in 2000, it focuses on a seven-year-old Hispanic girl who loves exploring with her monkey and a talking backpack. But times…

Let’s face it, the age of innocence is over. With Stranger Things and IT: Chapter One showing that modern child actors can be more than just children. Now, thanks to the directorial debut of The Office US writer Gene Stupnitsky, the…

Based on the life of journalist Sarfaz Mansoor, Blinded by the Light focuses on Javed (Viveik Kalra), a British-Pakistani teenager living in Luton in the 1980s. Dreaming of being a writer, he struggles to find his voice until a classmate…