The team that made the Fisherman’s Friends films has moved up from Cornwall to Somerset for their recent comedy-drama inspired by true events. The Drover Arms is a struggling pub in the village of Birchbury. The landlord, Mick Harley (Martin Clunes), is on the verge of losing his family business. Tensions within the family erupt […]
Author: Kieran Freemantle
EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert Review
Elvis Presley is recognised as one of the most popular musicians in history. He was the subject of a successful biopic in 2022. When making the film, Baz Luhrmann discovered lost footage and used it for a concert film. I would normally write a plot synopsis when writing reviews. That’s impossible with EPiC since it was […]
Scream 7 Review
Neve Campbell returns to the Scream series after sitting out the Ghostface massacre in New York City. Sidney Evans, nee Prescott (Campbell), lives a quiet life in the town of Pine Grove. She is married to Mark Evans (Joel McHale), the chief of police, has three children, and owns a successful coffee shop. Sidney’s relationship […]
How to Make a Killing Review
How to Make a Killing is an ensemble black comedy inspired by the 1907 novel Israel Rank: The Autobiography of a Criminal and the Ealing Classic Kind Hearts and Coronets. It’s a film aiming to tap into the growing ‘Eat the Rich’ sentiment Becket Redfellow (Glen Powell) is the illegitimate son of the Redfellow dynasty. […]
Hoppers Review
Hoppers is the first of two films to be released by Pixar in 2026. This offering is an environmentally themed comedy. Mabel Tanaka (Piper Curda) is an animal lover and passionate environmental activist. She is determined to preserve The Glare from being turned into an expressway. When Mabel discovers her university professor, Dr. Sam (Kathy […]
Cold Storage Review
Cold Storage is a sci-fi horror comedy from screenwriter David Koepp, adapting his own novel for the big screen. After an infectious fungus kills everyone in a small town in Australia, the US military takes it and puts it in a facility in the Atchison Caves. Over the course of 20 years, the facility has […]
Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die Review
Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die is a zany time travel comedy from Gore Verbinski, making his first film in 10 years. In a diner in Los Angeles, a man (Sam Rockwell) enters, claiming he’s from the future and needs volunteers to help him save the world. He leads a gang of six different people […]
Wuthering Heights (2026) Review
The 2026 version of Wuthering Heights is Emerald Fennell’s third feature and is already seen as one of the most controversial adaptations ever. The Earnshaws are an old landed gentry family in Yorkshire. Despite their prestigious name, their estate has fallen into a state of disrepair, and the family patriarch (Martin Clunes) is a gambler […]
Run Away Review
Run Away is the 11th adaptation of a Harlan Coben novel by Netflix. This adaptation transfers the story of a man looking for missing drug addicted daughter from New York to England. Simon Greene (James Nesbitt) is a successful finance advisor whose oldest daughter, Paige (Ellie de Lange), has been missing ever since she got hooked on […]
Whistle Review
Whistle is an Irish-Canadian horror film from the director of The Nun and the showrunner of the second season of Gangs of London. Chrysanthemum “Chrys” Willet (Dafne Keen) has moved in with her extended family after the death of her father and time in rehab. On her first day of school, she finds a strange […]










