Halloween review: fun and entertaining (when you ignore all the flaws)
Reading time: 3 minutes In 1978, John Carpenter took a simple idea, a micro-budget of around $300,000 and created a masterpiece of horror cinema. …
Bohemian Rhapsody review: If Wikipedia made films…
Reading time: 2 minutes Everyone knows Queen, but does everyone Freddie Mercury? That’s the question Bohemian Rhapsody aims to answer, following the rise to …
Revisiting The Hateful Eight: well-scripted discussion and disinhibiting moments of comedy
Reading time: 3 minutes Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight is a tense, western-themed waiting game that follows the forcing together of a group of …
Cannon Films’ unintentional homage to the work of Jack ‘The King’ Kirby
Reading time: 4 minutes In the history of the He-Man franchise, from the original cycle of storytelling and toy sales, there’s never been a …
Winona Ryder is the Halloween Queen
Reading time: 1 minute Synonymous with the spooky celebration, Winona Ryder’s weird and wonderful roles over the years still rank highly as some of …
Bad Times at the El Royale review: leave your expectations at the door
Reading time: 2 minutes Settling down to see this film in a near sold-out cinema, a feeling of comfort (partly due to the brand …
First Man review: showing emotion proves harder than going to space
Reading time: 2 minutes First Man chronicles Neil Armstrong and NASA’s rough ride to the moon. Disaster missions caused by tiny oversights and miscalculations …
One year later and we’re still not over how bad The Snowman is
Reading time: 3 minutes My god I really wanted to like The Snowman. Now, and only now (12 months after it was released) do …