Sundance London 2023 review – Talk To Me (2022)
We’ve probably all done it. Got together with some friends to dabble in the supernatural, courtesy of a Ouija board...
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Sundance London 2023 review – Passages (2023)
Warmth and beautiful observation have characterized Ira Sachs’ best films – Love Is Strange and Little Men in particular –...
Sundance London 2023 review – Fairyland (2023)
For his feature debut, director/writer Andrew Durham has taken us to somewhere we know, or at least feel we do...
The Overlook Film Festival 2023 Film Review – Godless: The Eastfield Exorcism (2023)
Based on true events this intense Australian possession picture analyses the destructive nature of religious zealotry and the horrific consequences...
The Overlook Film Festival 2023 Film Review – Clock (2023)
Stunning visual flourishes and masterfully interwoven themes make sure this edgy body clock shocker delivers an intense horror high. Ella...
The Overlook Film Festival 2023 Film Review – Trim Season (2023)
Seasonal hemp harvesters fall foul of a supernatural drug baroness in this transgressive horror engulfed in a miasma of ganja...
BFI Flare 2023 Review – Polarized (2023)
The collision of worlds – physical, cultural and everything in between – and the resulting fallout is a perennial favourite...
BFI Flare 2023 Film Review – Big Boys (2023)
Jamie’s 14 years old. We never see him at school, but it’s not much of a stretch to imagine that...
FrightFest Glasgow Review – Hunt Her Kill Her (2022)
Nightshift janitor Karen is targeted by a vicious gang of masked marauders in this nasty game of cat-and-mouse misogyny. Struggling...
Frightfest Glasgow – Film Review – Pensive (2023)
Pensive is a woodland maniac goes ballistic during a hedonistic rave in this refreshingly off-kilter slasher from Lithuania. A class...
Glasgow Film Festival 2023 Review – Blackberry (2023)
In Alien: Covenant, Michael Fassbender's character David said, "Big things have small beginnings." Aliens fans know what he was talking...
Review – The Ordinaries (2022)
Do you ever wish you could fit in somewhere other than where you are now? Sophie Linnenbaum's inventive feature debut,...
Review – The End Of Sex (2022)
It doesn’t seem so long ago that the question was “can men and women be friends without sex getting in...
Review – A Little Prayer (2023)
It’s a peaceful, residential road. Lots of trees, grass and well-tended family homes. The quiet is disturbed some mornings by...