When half-siblings Andy (Billy Barratt) and Piper (Sora Wong) lose their father to cancer they find themselves placed with foster parent Laura (Sally Hawkins) and her other foster child Oliver (Jonah Wren Phillips). Andy immediately finds Laura not only eccentric but rather exclusionary in her attention. Laura has also recently suffered the loss of her … Continue reading Bring Her Back
Four years after Finn (Mason Thames) fought off and killed ‘The Grabber’ (Ethan Hawke) he is struggling to deal with his trauma from those events. His sister Gwen (Madeleine McGraw) then begins to have mysterious dreams about some young boys that died at a camp that may be linked to their mother and ‘The Grabber’. … Continue reading Black Phone 2
Downtrodden janitor Winston (Peter Dinklage) finds himself thrown into a vat of toxic waste and transformed into the horrifically deformed superhero The Toxic Avenger. The Toxic Avenger is a rather hilarious and fun homage/reboot of the 1984 low budget horror movie of the same name. It is a B-movie, splatterfest with an awful lot of … Continue reading The Toxic Avenger: Unrated
Cameron Cade (Tyriq Withers) is the next up and coming American Football Quarterback. A glittering College career looks set to make him the number one draft pick, until someone dressed as a mascot gives him a career threatening brain injury with a mighty thwack on the head. But as hope is fading, legendary player Isaiah … Continue reading HIM
Ed and Lorraine Warren (Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga) return for one final terrifying case of paranormal possession. Last Rites opens in 1964 to show us the Warrens in one of their first ever cases. A case that is interrupted by Lorraine going into labour earlier than anticipated and their daughter Judy being stillborn, before … Continue reading The Conjuring: Last Rites
In the near future an environmental collapse leads to crippling food shortages and health crises. The world is forced into the difficult decision of forcing governments to facilitate the reduction of the population by 20% via new euthanasia schemes that financially reward the families of those that volunteer. Cue the patriarch of the York family, … Continue reading Humane
Fifty young men compete annually in “The Long Walk” to win riches and a singular wish of their choosing. Walk continuously at a speed of 3mph or be shot dead. Last man standing wins. The Long Walk is set in a dystopian version of the United States of America now run by a totalitarian regime … Continue reading The Long Walk
It is May 2020, the height of the Covid Pandemic and in the small town of Eddington, New Mexico a feud between the town’s Mayor and Sheriff threatens to destabilise the entire town and its citizens' way of life. I will start my review by simply stating that Eddington is a superb movie. One that … Continue reading Eddington
When Millie (Alison Brie) gets a job as a teacher in the countryside, her and her partner Tim (Dave Franco) take the plunge and leave the city behind for a new life. But will their strained relationship survive the big move? Tim has recently suffered a traumatic experience when discovering the body of his dead … Continue reading Together
At 2.17am in Maybrook, Pennsylvania, seventeen children from the same class simultaneously wake up and run away from home. Only their teacher Justine Gandy (Julia Garner) and a boy named Alex Lilly (Cary Christopher) arrive at school the next day. After thirty days of the school being closed as investigations take place and no closer … Continue reading Weapons
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