Brian Duffield’s No One Will Save You brings two classic horror tropes together, by approaching extra-terrestrial horror with a home invasion tweak that is both ingenious but irritating with its offering. Following Brynn – played by a solid Kaitlyn Dever – as a more earthbound Ellen Ripley, as she protects herself (and childhood home) from […]
Tag: Horror
Bird Box: Barcelona – Review
2018’s Bird Box was a blockbuster hit when it broke viewership records on Netflix. With its meme-heavy marketing, and a superstar in Sandra Bullock, Bird Box burst onto the streaming site and skyrocketed to success seemingly overnight, only to be soon forgotten about. The film felt like more of a passing fad than it was […]
The Menu – Review
Ralph Fiennes cooks up a storm in this darkly comical thriller as chef Julian Slowik. Head chef of the Hawthorn, chef Slowik invites a group of individuals to eat (sorry chef, ‘taste’ or ‘savour’) his most elaborate and personal menu yet. What these hand-picked guests will soon realise however, is that this is a dining […]
Top 5: Favourite Horror Films
Spooky season is upon us. It’s that time of year when we remember that Mike Myers isn’t just that funny guy that voiced Shrek and our current economic and political crisis perhaps isn’t the scariest scenario we could be faced with (subject to argument). This brings up a specific genre which celebrates the scares and […]
Werewolf by Night – Review
For years I’ve been saying that Marvel is getting too comfortable and have become stagnant and stubborn in their ways. Once they found monumental success with The Avengers in 2012 it felt like they finally had a formula that worked and took the superhero sub-genre to new heights. But since the turn of its 4th […]
Prey – Review
It was only four years ago that director Shane Black (Iron Man 3, The Nice Guys) tried to reinvent the Predator franchise and bring it back to fine form after decades of failing to replicate the success of 1987’s ‘Predator’. But much like the many sequels/redesigns that have come and gone without leaving much of […]
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness – Review
The surgeon superhero Steven Strange is back for his long anticipated direct sequel. A sequel that truly sticks to its namesake. A multiverse hopping trip that feels mad, mysterious and creates a map for the future of Marvel. Helmed by a director that is no novice to the comic book world having directed the original […]
Texas Chainsaw Massacre – Review
Following the fad of classic franchises retconning their projects to give us a ‘true’ sequel – something the Ghostbusters, Terminator and Halloween franchises have most recently attempted – The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is the latest to receive a futile facelift (pun intended) with the chainsaw wielding psychopath ‘Leatherface’ making a reappearance. Ignoring the many other […]
Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City – Review
Ah the 90’s. The decade that gave us Nokia mobile phones, 4 Non Blondes and a video game that would be a starting point to one of the most successful gaming franchises of all time, Resident Evil. We’re going back to 1998 to the fictional setting of Raccoon City. A derelict city in the Midwest […]
Last Night in Soho – Review
Even before I knew what Last Night in Soho was really about, it became one of my most anticipated movies slated for release this year. Edgar Wright has been one of the most consistently fresh and thoroughly entertaining director’s of the modern era. He found his style with his ‘Cornetto Trilogy’, and has since changed […]
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