Every year some movies fall through the cracks and fail to reach wider audiences due to a lack of solid marketing. I had no idea of this film’s existence until it hit Netflix at the end of last month. I took a punt expecting the worst for some late night entertainment, and was left dumbfounded […]
Author: Clay Bones
Without Remorse – Review
A Tom Clancy thriller involving a plot that pits USA against the Russians and questionable morality matters centred around the CIA and US armed forces. It’s not the 80’s kids, but damn does it feel like it again. Adapted from the ’93 novel of the same name, Without Remorse is the latest of Clancy’s work […]
Stowaway – Review
With a story that fades into the nothingness of its setting, Netflix’s latest space drama comes up short despite the good work put in from its short handed cast. Stowaway starts off on an intriguing adventure, but is just left floating and desperately gasping for air for its duration. Marina Barnett (Toni Collette) leads a […]
Love and Monsters – Review
It’s another end of the world drama, only this time it’s presented in the teen-comedy formula. Netflix’s fair budgeted apocalyptic comedy, directed by Michael Matthews, is light in entertainment and thrills but rich in ideas. It’s a sophomore feature effort from the director, and stars teenager’s favourite poster boy, Dylan O’Brien (The Maze Runner trilogy, […]
Sound of Metal – Review
The fear of losing your hearing will be instilled in all of us. For some of us though, like Ruben (Riz Ahmed) here, it’s an integral part of our livelihood. Ruben is the drummer of a duo punk-metal band named Blackgammon, with his girlfriend Lou (Olivia Cooke) being the lead singer and only other member. […]
Thunder Force – Review
Melissa McCarthy (Spy, The Heat) has made an entire career out of playing a clown, and it seems Thunder Force certainly wasn’t going to break that mould. Written and directed by her husband Ben Falcone (Superintelligence, The Boss), the latest effort from the couple is perhaps their least humorous and most cringe inducing to date. […]
Two Distant Strangers – Review
This Oscar nominated short touches on two commonly discussed topics. From a filmmaking perspective, this takes the time-loop route. Happy Death Day and sequel, Palm Springs, The Map of Tiny Perfect Things and now Two Distant Strangers are some of the more recent examples of time related anomaly storytelling. And from a (not so) current […]
Run – Review
Seeing such a simple concept being expertly crafted and fundamentally resourceful with what constraints it has, is a rare thing to come by. Director Aneesh Chaganty has managed to achieve that for the second time, first being with his surprise hit Searching (2018). Yet again his scope is small, with the majority of the events […]
Train to Busan Presents: Peninsula – Review
If it wasn’t for the title and a little in movie exposition, you’d have likely flown through this zombie flick having no knowledge of its connection to 2016’s Train to Busan. What perhaps you further wouldn’t realise, is that this is a threequel to director Sang-ho Yeon’s chaotic Korean zombie horror franchise. The lesser known […]
Finding the Way Back – Review
Certain films can speak to us in ways that can’t always truly be explained or understood. Gavin O’Connor and Ben Affleck’s Finding the Way Back (or The Way Back as it is known outside of the UK) is one of those movies for me. Jack Cunningham (Ben Affleck) spends his days as an ironworker and […]
