Honest Thief
Aaron Carruthers has a review for the latest Liam Neeson action outing, Honest Thief.
Hotly anticipated slasher sequel - Intrusion:Disconnected - Gets its Amazon Prime release!
Out on Amazon Prime now, Intrusion:Disconnected is an engaging, brutal slasher throwback that packs as many emotional punches as it does physical ones. See the poster, read our review and get the link to watch here!
The Old Dark House
The Hammer Horror loving Bloke Down The Pub is embracing the goofy and offering a hand across the ocean to cinematic huckster William Castle and his 1963 collaboration with Hammer, The Old Dark House.
Time Warp: The Greatest Cult Films of All-Time Vols. 1 - 3
Jon Cross reviews a trio of docs that are, once again, taking a look at the world of cult films - from midnight movies to campy comedies and Point Break… for… reasons.
The Snorkel
The Bloke Down The Pub, our Hammer Horror fanatic, ruminates on how casting can prove so vitally important to presenting a strong idea well, especially where The Snorkel, from 1958, is concerned.
Four Sided Triangle
When we need him most, the Hammer fanatic, The Bloke Down The Pub, is back and this time he’s gone back to the beginning, to when Hammer Films took their first tentative steps in to the realm genre film with the 1953’s Sci-Fi effort Four Sided Triangle. What did they learn, what mistakes were made? read on…
SUNDANCE REVIEW: David Bruckner’s The Night House
In another review of a movie that premiered at Sundance 2020, Lisa Gullickson takes a look at The Night House from Director David Bruckner, starring Rebecca Hall.
Sundance Review: Promising Young Woman
Lisa Gullickson looks at her third Sundance film, Promising Young Woman, a razor sharp satire and social commentary of female revenge and culpability in the heart of the #metoo era from writer/director Emerald Fennell and starring Carey Mulligan, Bo Burnham, Adam Brody, Molly Shannon and Clancy Brown.
At Twenty Five: Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight
TF Parent presents the next in his series of reviews looking at movies turning 25 years old. This month it’s the first and, arguably, the best of the Tales from the Crypt movies, Demon Knight starring William Sadler, Dick Miller, Billy Zane and Jada Pinkett.
SUNDANCE REVIEW: Minari
Lisa Gullickson, reviews Lee Isaac Chung’s childhood drama Minari from the Sundance Film Festival 2020
SUNDANCE REVIEW: Dick Johnson is Dead
Lisa Gullickson, at the Sundance Film Festival, looks at the documentary Dick Johnson is Dead by filmmaker Kirsten Johnson who takes a unique look at her father’s Alzheimer's disease and his inevitable passing.
At Twenty Five: Drop Zone
Our contributor TF Parent looks at one of our favourite genres: the nonsensical, high-adrenaline 90s action film. This month it’s Drop Zone with Snipes, Busey and Yancy (it’s like Nancy but, ya know… with a Y) Butler that turns 25 years old. Does it hold up? What are the pros and cons of 90s effects? Have a read and find out!
Blinded by the Light
Aaron Carruthers is back and taking a look at the new Blu-Ray/DVD release of Gurinder Chadha’s Blinded By The Light.
Teen Movie Hell
Michael Campochiaro looks at Mike "McBeardo" McPadden's indispensable tome to the sex romp, comedy, teen movies of the 70s, 80s and 90s, Teen Movie Hell, from publisher Bazillion Points, 2019
QT8: The First Eight
Jon Cross looks at the new documentary about the first eight films by Quentin Tarantino.
At Twenty Five: Heavenly Creatures
After making three underrated, surreal, splatter classics, filmmaker Peter Jackson turned to some true life horror for his fourth feature film in the Director’s chair. Heavenly Creatures launched the careers of Kate Winslet and Melanie Lynskey and it turns 25 years old this year. T F Parent, takes a look back…
At Twenty Five: Wes Craven's New Nightmare
In the month of its 25th Anniversary, contributor to the site, TF Parent, brings us a look back at the meta horror film that started 90s meta horror, revitalised a franchise and allowed an original filmmaker to respond to the sequels that were out of his control, Wes Craven’s New Nightmare.
Fantastic Fest Review: Thai Film The Pool is About a Guy Stuck in a Pool. What More Do You Need?
In her latest Fantastic Fest review, Lisa Gullickson contemplates being stuck in an empty pool for days, what kind of premise that is for a movie and how we’re all just one mistake away from having one of those “you’ll never believe this but…” stories. Read her review for Ping Lumpraploeng’s independent horror, The Pool.
Nurse 3D
Michael Campochiaro, the appreciator of the underappreciated, the excavator of the discounted and the curator of cult takes a look at what some consider the worst film ever made, the controversial, relatively new cult classic - Nurse 3D starring Paz de la Huerta, Katrina Bowden and Judd Nelson.