Film Reviews

Adam Brodie 7 September 2012

★★★★★ Anna Karenina is a story about love, and its place in society. It’s also a whirling, passionate film that...

Andrew McArthur 3 September 2012

★★★☆☆ Len Wiseman's (Underworld, Die Hard 4.0) remake of the 1990 Paul Verhoeven sci-fi classic, Total Recall receives its UK cinema release...

Adam Brodie 3 September 2012

Lawless is one of those oh so tricky review subjects. It’s not a bad movie. But in terms of story...

Ian Schultz 2 September 2012

★★★★1/2 Orson Welles’ The Trial was his penultimate feature length film. His last proved to be Falstaff : Chimes at...

Ian Schultz 2 September 2012

★★★★★ That Obscure Object of Desire was Luis Buñuel’s last film in 1977 after a very long career. His career...

Ian Schultz 1 September 2012

★★★★★ Port of Shadows (Le Quai des Brumes) is a film directed by Marcel Carné in 1938. It stars well-known early...

David Rowley 31 August 2012

★★☆☆☆ There are few things as relaxing as sitting on the water with a fishing pool in hand. A sort...

Scott Clark 29 August 2012

★☆☆☆☆ In more skilful hands Pablo Proenza’s Dark Mirror could have come off as an average haunted house story, but...

Paul 29 August 2012

The debut feature from screenwriter Eron Sheean, who was responsible for penning The Divide for Xavier Gens (which also starred...

Paul 29 August 2012

The “found footage” flick. Possibly the most derided genre of horror, even more so than the slasher movie these days....

chris Banks 28 August 2012

★1/2☆☆☆ Backpacker David (Xavier Samuel) returns from his travels and announces to his friends that, following a whirlwind holiday romance,...

Paul 28 August 2012

The second film from the Manetti Brothers’ whose The Arrival of Wang played Frightfest Glasgow and is scheduled as part...

Paul 28 August 2012

L’enfant terrible Jennifer Lynch, whose previous flick Hissss is yet to see the light of day in many territories (at...

Andrew McArthur 27 August 2012

Found footage horror, V/H/S has completely revitalised a played-out, repetitive style of filmmaking with six chilling anthology tales. Ti West...