Chris (Mel Gibson) is starting to lose faith in humanity as he finds less and less people deserving of the gifts he delivers at Christmas time. Billy (Chance Hurstfield) is a neglected twelve year old whose reaction to receiving a lump of coal from Santa is to hire a hitman (Walton Goggins) to kill the … Continue reading Fatman
Kate Pierce (Darby Camp) is now a teenager who is unhappy about the fact that her mother has started dating a new man and they are spending Christmas in sunny Cancun. Exiled elf Belsnickel (Julian Dennison) aims to use Kate's new found cynicism as a way back to the North Pole to destroy Santa Claus. … Continue reading The Christmas Chronicles: Part II
Teenager Charley Brewster discovers that his new neighbour Jerry Dandridge is actually an ancient vampire who preys on the people of his neighbourhood. Can he enlist the help of the "famous" vampire killer Peter Vincent who stars in the tv/stage show Fright Night to vanquish the town of this evil? As part of the Halloween … Continue reading Fright Night (1985) and Fright Night (2011)
Small Axe is a collection of films from British writer/director Steve McQueen set between the late 1960’s and mid 1980’s that focus on the West Indian community in London. The Small Axe of the title is a proverb made famous by a Bob Marley song, “if you are the big tree, we are the small … Continue reading Small Axe: Lovers Rock
Twelve strangers wake up in a clearing without any memory of how they got there or who each other is. In the middle of the field is a crate with weapons and then The Hunt begins. The Hunt has a very simple set up, some mild allusions to class war and an awful lot of … Continue reading The Hunt (2020)
When Abbey (Kristen Stewart) is invited to her girlfriends home for Christmas she is excited and plans to propose on Christmas Day. Unfortunately what she does not know is that Harper (Mackenzie Davis) has not yet come out to her parents and is not quite ready to yet. Happiest Season took me by surprise as … Continue reading Happiest Season
Small Axe is a collection of films from British writer/director Steve McQueen set between the late 1960’s and mid 1980’s that focus on the West Indian community in London. The Small Axe of the title is a proverb made famous by a Bob Marley song, “if you are the big tree, we are the small … Continue reading Small Axe: Mangrove
When magical toy maker Jeronicus Jangle’s latest creation is stolen by his apprentice his life falls apart. Years later on the verge of bankruptcy it is up to his granddaughter Journey to save him. The films story is framed around a Grandmother reading her grandchildren a story that she has not told them before. It … Continue reading Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey
New Years Eve 2008, the final day in the life of twenty-two year old Oscar Grant III (Michael B. Jordan) who was shot and killed by a police officer in the early hours of New Years Day 2009. Before Ryan Coogler brought to our screens the power house films of Creed and Black Panther his … Continue reading Fruitvale Station
When the zombie apocalypse comes to Little Haven, Anna (Ella Hunt) and her friends have to fight and sing their way to safety. Anna and the Apocalypse is a relatively low budget film that I missed on release in 2017 due to its small cinema distribution but was absolutely delighted to stumble upon on Sky … Continue reading Anna And The Apocalypse
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