Film Review – Sound Of Violence (2021)
Alexis, a young deaf girl, witnesses the savage butchering of her family. She realises her hearing can be rebooted by...
Film Festivals
Alongside our in-depth reviews from some of the world’s biggest film festivals, you’ll also find the latest film news, exclusive features, trailers, interviews, and everything in between. We cover festivals from across the globe, including the Glasgow Film Festival, Edinburgh International Film Festival, Sundance Film Festival, BFI London Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), Fantasia International Film Festival, and FrightFest, bringing you the latest from the world of cinema all year round.
Mad God Review (Fantasia Film Festival)
An intrepid operative on a sabotage mission enters a rudimentary capsule and is lowered for miles into a depraved world...
Review – The Deer King (2021 Edinburgh Film Festival)
Masashi Ando and Masayuki Miyaji’s The Deer King may not be the only animation at this year’s EIFF, but it...
The Sadness Review (Fantasia Film Festival)
Steel yourself for The Sadness, the blood-spattered death of morality and the rise of animalistic gratification in the most profoundly...
Edinburgh International Film Festival 2021 review – The Beta Test (2021)
The Beta Test is the latest from that most independent of independent film makers, Jim Cummings. After his portrait of...
Martyrs Lane Review (Fantasia Film Festival)
Leah is a ten-year-old vicar's daughter who feels strangely ostracized by her own family. Playing second fiddle to the needs...
Review – The Justice Of Bunny King (2021, Edinburgh Film Festival)
“I need you to keep fighting,” says the paramedic in the ambulance. “You’re a fighter.” She’s not wrong. She’s talking...
Hellbender Review (Fantasia Film Festival)
Teenage wildling Izzy lives with her mother in the depths of the Catskill woodlands. Cocooned from social interaction due to...
Raging Fire Review (Fantasia Film Festival)
Tenacious super cop Bong will stop at nothing to apprehend Ngo, a former protege hell-bent on a ruthless rampage of...
Brain Freeze Review (Fantasia Film Festival )
Welcome to Peacock Island. Welcome to its idyllic gated community with a golf course that remains operational year-round thanks to...
Film Review – Zola (2021)
It all began with a tweet. No, not those pesky birds that squawk endlessly on your rooftops, but with Twitter:...
Sundance London 2021 Film Review – Pleasure (2021)
“Business or pleasure?” an American immigration official asks 19 year old Linnea – soon to re-invent herself as Bella Cherry...
Film Review – Riders Of Justice (2020)
It’s a Mads Mikkelsen summer. OK, there hasn’t been an official announcement, but the arrival of his two most recent...
Tribeca Festival 2021 – Film Review – Agnes (2021) World Premiere
A cynical priest with an unsavory past and his timid neophyte are dispatched to a traditionalist convent. Their unwanted mission...