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Category: Reviews

  • Rings Review

    Interestingly, there are exactly seven reasons why Rings doesn’t work. Read More >

    Written by

    Nick Spake

  • The Wailing Review

    In addition to being an entertaining horror, The Wailing is far from a surface level experience, with ideas surrounding immigration, coming to terms with a colonial past, and the darkness in the heart of men all bubbling away in the background throughout. Read More >

    Written by

    Craig Skinner

  • The Girl With All the Gifts – Review

    The performances from Close, Arterton and Considine ensure this film transcends the tropes of the genre its placed within, to make for a strikingly relatable affair. Read More >

    Written by

    Stefan Pape

  • Morgan – Review

    Morgan is saved by the remarkable and unsurprisingly effective supporting performance by Toby Jones; though even he has to take second billing, as Paul Giamatti steals the show with an indelible cameo that makes for the most striking, compelling sequence within this feature. Read More >

    Written by

    Stefan Pape

  • The Childhood of a Leader – Review

    The Childhood of a Leader is a truly indelible, resourceful debut, that you certainly won’t forget in a hurry. Read More >

    Written by

    Stefan Pape

  • The Shallows – Review

    The Shallows is a film that while undoubtedly entertaining, veers so far from realism that it distances itself from the viewer. Read More >

    Written by

    Stefan Pape

  • The Transfiguration – Review (Cannes Film Festival)

    Somewhat assured direction and a good central performance from a young actor aren’t enough to rescue The Transfiguration from falling a little flat… Read More >

    Written by

    Craig Skinner

  • Bone Tomahawk – Review

    Here is a collective of actors striving to bring their director’s vision emphatically to the big screen, and they have all triumphed. Read More >

    Written by

    Stefan Pape

  • Victor Frankenstein – Review

    “Victor Frankenstein works better when overstated, revelling in the pantomime-esque elements, than it does in the latter stages when we broach the subject of humanity”… Read More >

    Written by

    Stefan Pape

  • Crimson Peak – Review

    “What can certainly be said of del Toro’s picture is that he’s created a visually striking feature that bears an enchanting, if harrowing ambiance.” Read More >

    Written by

    Stefan Pape