Category: Reviews
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Porches and Private Eyes Review
Much like Desperate Housewives, Porches and Private Eyes aims to strike a balance between melodrama and dark satire. Read More >
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The Girl on the Train – Review
Tate Taylor takes on the unenviable task of adapting a bestselling novel, by bringing Paula Hawkins immensely popular The Girl on the Train to the silver screen – and he’s done so in an accomplished, if somewhat underwhelming fashion. Already changing the film’s location from London to New York, the lead role of Rachel Wilson… Read More >
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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 >
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The 9th Life of Louis Drax – Review
Not for the first time, director Alexandre Aja has presented a film indelible in tone and atmosphere with The 9th Life of Louis Drax, but one that struggles to engage or compel in a way that it really should. Read More >
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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 >
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Nerve – Review
Though Nerve is a flawed film, there’s certainly a pertinent, important message to this unique slice of contemporary cinema. Read More >
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Men & Chicken – Review
Madcap, grotesque and completely, and utterly bizarre – in the most wonderful way possible. Read More >
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Despite the Falling Snow – Review
The striking, intriguing narrative is cheapened by the presentation, and the way this story has been told. Read More >
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Three Days of the Condor – Review
Robert Redford is always on the move in his pictures. In Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, he was on the run from the law; in The Sting, he’s constantly circling his mark; and in A Walk in the Woods, he’s simply walking. The peak-Redford era hit Three Days of the Condor, receiving a magnificent… Read More >
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The Witch – Review
The Witch is chilling and eerie, and makes for distinctively uncomfortable viewing – but there are few genuine scares on show… Read More >
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