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Category: Reviews

  • The Long Good Friday – Review

    Think of a classic gangster film. If The Godfather, or perhaps its sequel, or maybe even Goodfellas crosses your mind, you wouldn’t be wrong in judging those as the genre’s giddy apexes – but if you look to the other side of the Atlantic, then you’ll find something far more insidious and dark, gnarling its teeth at any… Read More >

    Written by

    Gary Green

  • Survivor – Review

    Abiding, frustratingly, by genre conventions, Survivor is a film devoid of any true identity, with such an unbearable inclination for cliché. Read More >

    Written by

    Stefan Pape

  • Poltergeist – Review

    “Poltergeist offers few scares to the audience, and instead thrives in the more intimate, emotional sequences.” Read More >

    Written by

    Stefan Pape

  • Bloodline: Season 1 – Review

    “so brilliantly executed, you’ll be missing your bedtime just to quench your urgent need for more”… Read More >

    Written by

    Teri Rosenbaum

  • Return to Sender – Review

    “the hackneyed means of storytelling seeks only in devaluing and cheapening the experience, taking a fascinating idea and presenting it in such a cliched fashion.” Read More >

    Written by

    Stefan Pape

  • A Royal Night Out – Review

    V.E. Day has only recently been explored in cinema, in the Oscar winning drama The King’s Speech, as the entire feature builds up towards the big night, and King George’s prominent and celebrated speech to the British public. But what we know somewhat less about, is what his daughters got up to on that very… Read More >

    Written by

    Stefan Pape

  • The Connection – Review

    If you think you’re going to be seeing the charming, ebullient, iridescent Jean Dujardin of The Artist fame, then think again. In the Cedric Jimenez thriller The Connection, we see a very different incarnation: an obsessive, ruthless, deeply moral character, proving that Dujardin is a wonderfully versatile actor not to be typecast. Based on a true… Read More >

    Written by

    Joanna Marcus

  • Child 44 – Review

    “investing in this title is nothing short of a struggle. With the intensity of this narrative and credentials of the cast and crew, it’s really quite remarkable that’s even possible in this instance”… Read More >

    Written by

    Stefan Pape

  • John Wick – Review

    “John Wick is, and rightly so, being billed as one of the action thrillers of the year”… Read More >

    Written by

    Stefan Pape

  • Good Kill – Review

    “regrettably the generic means of storytelling combined with a mediocre screenplay make for an ultimately unfulfilling experience”… Read More >

    Written by

    Stefan Pape