Cert 15 | 89 mins | 2015
4 stars for this tense but sometimes slightly vague thriller.
Beneath is written by Patrick Doody and Chris Valenziano (Bugs, Call Of Duty: World at War) and directed by Ben Ketai (30 Days of Night: Dust to Dust).
“The following is inspired by true events. In 2013, a collapse at the Brackett Coal Mine left a group of workers trapped nearly 600…more
Cert 18 | 89 mins | 1964
4 stars for this beautifully converted Italian whodunit.
Blood and Black Lace was first released in 1964 and was directed by Mario Bava (Black Sunday, A Bay Of Blood). It was the spearhead of the Giallo genre (Italian murder/mystery/horror films) and became the prototype for what we now know as “slasher flicks”.
Blood and Black Lace has been lovingly converted from the…more
Cert 18 | 91 mins | 1973
4 stars of classic original vigilante action.
First released in 1973, Coffy is written and directed by Jack Hill (Foxy Brown, Spider Baby) and is an excellent addition to the Blaxploitation genre. It was also highly groundbreaking at the time of it’s release, featuring as it does a woman in the lead role of an action film.
In addition to it’s blaxploitation…more
Cert 12 | 106 mins | 2015
4 stars for this fascinating insight into the mind of an artist.
Big Eyes is directed by Tim Burton (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Big Fish) and written by Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski (Man on the Moon, Ed Wood).
This film tells the story of renowned artist Walter Keane (Christoph Waltz – Inglourious Basterds, Django Unchained), whose work depicting waifs with…more
Cert 15 | 102 mins | 2015
4 stars of top notch psychological thriller from Stephen King.
Based on a short story of the same name taken from the book “Full Dark, No Stars” by the master of storytelling and tension building Stephen King (The Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile) and directed by Peter Askin (Company Man, Certainty), A Good Marriage is a chilling tale of betrayal and deception…more
Cert 18 | 90 mins | 2015
4 Star Cops, Baddies and Hackney’s Finest.
From first time full length feature director Chris Bouchard (The Hunt for Gollum), comes Thorin Seex first venture into film writing and what comes out at the other end is a dark tale of drugs, corrupt cops and fuelled up Russians, where everyone knows every swear word in the book and uses the hardest…more
Cert 15 | 95 mins | 2015
4 Star Sci-Fi that you’ll have to watch Over and Over Again.
The Spierig Brothers (Daybreakers, Undead) have taken Robert A. Heinlein‘s book All You Zombies (Starship Troopers, The Puppet Masters) and written the screenplay and directed a timely piece of cinematic mastery.
This is a film that is dark, there maybe sunshine but it never really shines on our protagonists. Right…more
