Film Review

B-movies are not known for keeping it simple and the unknown is an apt description of Brandon Slagle's crime/sci-fi/dystopian action thriller. Beginning in a SWAT team van, we have our protagonists labelled out to us as this unit of law…

Rene van Pannevis places the stark reality of the life of a young carer centre stage in his powerful film, Looted. In his debut feature, van Pannevis draws from his own life experiences with this Hartlepool set story. It tells of Rob,…

New Zealand has a long line of great comedy horrors. Bad Taste, Black Sheep, What We Do In The Shadows. This year's FrightFest sees another good entry to that list. Dead good. Marbles, a hapless stoner, can see ghosts. Tagg, a recently…

Karl Holt finds that it's child's play to deliver the highlight of this year's FrightFest with Benny Loves You. In 1995, the must-have toy was Buzz Lightyear from Toy Story. In 2020, everyone will want a Benny. This film plays on Toy…

When The Craft was released in 1996, it became a surprise box office hit. Over 20 years since its release, it has been labelled as a 'cult classic'. Now, American actress-filmmaker Zoe Lister-Jones is taking on a contemporary take on The…

In space no one can hear you scream. On stage however, and at Frightfest, everyone can hear you scream... and laugh at Alien On Stage. This charming documentary follows a group of Dorset bus drivers put on their amateur dramatic…

Six years on from 2014's The Redwood Massacre, the Burlap Killer returns to terrorise a new audience at this year's Frightfest in Redwood Massacre: Annihilation. A stranger obsessed with the unsolved Redwood murders convinces a group of…

Frightfest's second digital festival of 2020 began with the tense and thrilling home invasion (or is it home entrapment) film Held. Looking to reignite the spark for their ninth wedding anniversary, Emma and Henry check in to a remote…

Sofia Coppola's latest film On the Rocks marks the first film produced under Apple's partnership with studio A24. Starring Rashida Jones and Bill Murray, the film follows Laura (Jones), a mother who has doubts about her suspicious husband…

This year's Closing Film at the BFI London Film Festival is Ammonite, Francis Lee's follow-up film to his 2017 drama God's Own Country. The film stars Kate Winslet as palaeontologist Mary Anning, who embarks on a relationship with…