Sundance 2015 Review – I Am Michael (2015)
The first of two James Franco Sundance debuts this year is the Gus Van Sant executive-produced I Am Michael. Based...
Andrew McArthur
Obsessed with all things film, television, and pop music. Worshipper of John Waters, Roman Polanski, and classy French actresses.
Sundance Review: It Follows (2014)
The newest graduate from the school of mumblecore horror is David Robert Mitchell's It Follows which blends the low-key drama...
DVD Review – Jimi: All Is By My Side (2014)
John Ridley writes and directs this ambitious, stylistically-loose biopic of Jimi Hendrix's London years. In sixties New York, Linda Keith...
Sundance 2015 Review: Z for Zachariah (2015)
After the truly unsettling Compliance, director Craig Zobel turns his sights to the post-apocalyptic film. Avoiding the clichéd tropes that...
Sundance Review: The Witch (2015)
Sundance favourite The Witch takes us back to the days of classic earthy-folk horrors like Witchfinder General and The Wicker...
Sundance 2015 Review: What Happened, Miss Simone?
The troubled life of complex jazz chanteuse Nina Simone is given an immersive exploration in documentary, What Happened, Miss Simone?...
Film Review – A Most Violent Year (2014)
With most of the talk this week being centred on notable omissions from the 2015 Academy Award Nominations, nothing has...
Film Review – The Gambler (2014)
1974 James Caan crime-drama, The Gambler, is given an unexpected update from writer William Monahan (The Departed) and director Rupert...
DVD Review – Before I Go To Sleep (2014)
When looking at the careers of Hollywood icons it is always interesting to see how their work transitions over time....
DVD Review – Retribution (2014)
Kat Candler’s Retribution (formerly known as Hellion) boasts some strong performances but ultimately feels like an amalgamation of various indie tropes...
12 Days Of Christmas Horror (Day 10) – Santa’s Slay (2005)
As we reach the last few days of this countdown, I'll freely admit that my knowledge of Christmas themed horrors...
Film Review – Exodus: Gods and Kings (2014)
Following the slightly less conventional biblical epic Noah, Sir Ridley Scott directs Exodus: Gods and Kings - a retelling of the Exodus story has more in common...
12 Days Of Christmas Horror (Day 8) – Female Trouble (1974)
Whilst the films that John Waters makes are not horror films by a conventional standard, they contain enough trash to...
12 Days Of Christmas Horror (Day 6) -Home for the Holidays (1972 TV)
Little seen ABC television movie Home for the Holidays is up next on our alternative 12 Days of Christmas countdown...