2024 is turning out to be a stellar year for horror genre fans, and four months in, we’ve already been treated to some solid scares. Now, it’s time for some good’ ol vampire fun with the arrival of Abigail, which promises ballerinas, blood, and plenty of bite. A group of would-be criminals kidnaps the 12-year-old daughter […]
Movie Reviews
‘Challengers’ – Review
Acclaimed filmmaker Luca Guadagnino brings the energy and switches things up with his striking romantic-tennis-psycho drama Challengers. This film has a hell of a pulse that will have you turned on and sweating hard with its passion that moves with absolute force. Tashi Duncan (Zendaya), a former tennis prodigy turned coach, is married to a […]
‘Civil War’ – Review
At the moment, the world feels like a fraught and turbulent place, and celebrated writer/director Alex Garland captures the zeitgeist of that energy with Civil War, his unique science-fiction take on a new millennium American-civil war, and the whole experience will take you by surprise. In a dystopian future America, a team of military-embedded journalists […]
‘The First Omen’ – Review
The horrors of the devil come face-to-face with audiences in The First Omen, making for an utterly frightful experience that gets under your skin in the gnarliest way possible. A young American novice nun (Nell Tiger Free) is sent to work at a church in Rome who uncovers a sinister conspiracy to bring about the […]
‘Monkey Man’ – Review
Dev Patel is a performer who is unafraid of risk and whose passion for the cinematic craft has rung through his performances all his life. Now he takes the next step in his career and looks to bring his burning passion for the action genre, martial arts and his Indian heritage to Monkey Man, his […]
‘Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire’ – Review
There’s trouble in Manhatten of a very spooky kind, and the Ghostbusters, both new and old, will have to assemble to take on this world-ending evil before its too late in Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire. The Spengler family returns to the iconic New York City firehouse where the original Ghostbusters have taken ghost-busting to the next […]
‘Wicked Little Letters’ – Review
The truth is often stranger than fiction, and that’s especially the case for Wicked Little Letters, a hilarious, foul-mouthed dramedy of a scandalous episode that shocked an entire nation and that reminds one to always be careful what they post. Based on a true scandal that stunned 1920s England, the story centres on neighbours Edith […]
‘Road House’ – Review
Jake Gyllenhaal brings the cool as he steps out of the Octagon and takes his spot on the door in Road House, a brand new re-imagining of the classic 1980s action romp, and Gyllenhaal and director Doug Liman make this one a pure pop-corn smashing success! Dalton (Jake Gyllenhaal), an ex-UFC fighter trying to escape […]
‘The Great Escaper’ – Review
When it comes to utter legends of the British thespian class, Sir Michael Caine and the late great Glenda Jackson are two of the utter best of the best, and they both give two incredible final performances in The Great Escaper, which is a perfect film on every single level. In the summer of 2014, […]
‘Imaginary’ – Review
Childhood horror rises to the surface in director Jeff Wadlow’s Imaginary, and this is a scary film with a serious bite to it that will freak audiences out. When Jessica (DeWanda Wise) moves back into her childhood home with her family, her youngest stepdaughter, Alice, finds a stuffed bear named Chauncey. As Alice’s behavior becomes […]