The Guest
Starring a bloke from that programme I’ve never watched (Downton Abbey) and that girl from It Follows, The Guest is an uneven but somewhat enjoyable slice of daft action nonsense. […]
Category Archives: Mystery
The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane
If you were to disagree with my theory that children are scary, I could point you to any number of films…and this, is definitely one of them. The Little Girl […]
Julia’s Eyes
Starring Belén Rueda (The Body), this Spanish language film tells the story of Julia, a woman with a degenerative eye condition that will eventually leave her blind. The film opens following the […]
Gone Girl
I watched Gone Girl last weekend. It’s quite good, isn’t it? I’m not going to outline the plot because there are virtually hundreds of reviews on my Reader right now […]
Sexy Evil Genius
So, while scrolling through Netflix I saw a picture for a film starring Oz and Dawn from Buffy the Vampire Slayer and I thought to myself ‘how cool, that could […]
The Cry of the Owl
Starring Paddy Considine and Julia Stiles (both of whom I really like, and how often does that ever happen?), Cry of the Owl is a decent enough old school thriller. […]
Absentia
Before last year’s Marmite horror film, Oculus, writer-director Mike Flanagan brought this weird little film. It centres on Callie – the wild one visiting after a long absence – and her […]
Oldboy (2013)
No, no, no, no, no! This is even worse than I feared. Not only is this OBVIOUSLY terrible, it’s also HILARIOUSLY terrible. What a blow. Oldboy tells the story of […]
The Traveler
Ah, poor Val Kilmer. Wasn’t he a pretty big star, at one point? I feel kind of bad because he although he remains prolific, this isn’t Willow-level film making, we’re […]
Calvary
Calvary is the second offering from writer-director John Michaeal McDonagh and iconic Irish actor Brendan Gleeson, and is a very different beast from its predecessor, The Guard. We join Father James Lavelle […]
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