A Gang Story (2011)
A Gang Story starring Gérard Lanvin and Tchéky Karyo, is The Godfather (1972) transposed to rural France. Director Olivier Marchal’s thriller is a violent and [...]
October 2016
Lifeforce (1985)
Lifeforce, director Tobe Hooper’s foray into space based terror, is very much a product of its time. The Sci-fi / horror starring Steve Railsback, Peter Firth, [...]
Murder By Decree (1978)
Only a cynic would claim that a film which had disappeared from view for so many years, got an airing on DVD due to the Academy Award recognition in recent years of [...]
Treehouse (2014)
First off let me warn you that my review of Treehouse – the film by London born director Michael Bartlett, and featuring (to use the word ‘starring’ [...]
Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (2014)
Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit is, on paper at least, a film which shouldn’t work, and certainly not as well as it does. Jack Ryan (Chris Pine), unknown to even his [...]
Pacific Rim (2013)
In recent years Hollywood has come to believe that in order to satisfy the paying public it must give them more bang for their buck. If this is the case it would [...]
The Iceman (2012)
Watching The Iceman, the thriller by Israeli director Ariel Vromen starring Michael Shannon, Winona Ryder and Ray Liotta, one can’t help query the choice of such [...]
NEWS FLASH!
The 60th BFI London Film Festival opens tonight with the European premiere of British director Amma Asante’s A United Kingdom (2016). In [...]
NEWS FLASH!
Horror Channel, in conjunction with FrightFest, have just announced a weekend long celebration of nastiness to screen this Halloween, running from Friday 28th [...]
Star Trek Into Darkness (2013)
Star Trek Into Darkness dispels the general misconception that Sci-fi is, on the whole, the domain of geeks and teenagers. Here is a thinking man’s blockbuster [...]
Maleficent (2014)
You have to hand it to Disney. As a studio who can reinvent and put a new twist on old hits, they constantly manage to surprise; they injected new life into their animated [...]
Faces in the Crowd (2011)
With an increasingly multitudinous selection of films released every week, it takes something special to make a movie stand out from the rest. However, as with the aptly [...]
