Audiences are in a golden age of video game adaptations with The Super Mario Bros Movie pleasing fans, whilst The Last of Us and Fallout were critical hits on TV. Borderlands shows that video game adaptations are still tricky beasts to tame. Pandora is a planet with a legendary vault that was created by an […]
Author: Kieran Freemantle
Kneecap Review
Kneecap is a biographical film about the Irish hip-hop group of the same name. This film stars the group as it looks at their rise as a group and their importance during the campaign to make Irish an official language in Northern Ireland. Liam Óg Ó Hannaidh and Naoise Ó Cairealláin have been best friends since […]
Harold and the Purple Crayon Review
The film adaptation of Harold and the Purple Crayon acts as a sequel to Crocket Johnson’s popular children’s book of the same time. This live-action film sees Harold and his friends enter into the real world. Since he was a child, Harold (Zachery Levi) has lived in an animated fantasy world with a magic purple […]
Deadpool & Wolverine Review
It has been six years since Ryan Reynolds’ Deadpool appeared on the big screen and seven years for Hugh Jackman as Wolverine. They finally team up with Deadpool & Wolverine and become a part of the MCU multiverse. Since the events of Deadpool 2, Wade Wilson/Deadpool (Reynolds) developed a mid-life crisis. He has been rejected by […]
The Zone of Interest Review
The Zone of Interest is the fourth feature film from Jonathan Glazer, the man behind Sexy Beast and Under the Skin. With The Zone of Interest Glazer tackles the subject of the Holocaust. Rudolf Höss (Christian Friedel) is a senior SS officer whose family lives next to the walls of Auschwitz. He spends time with his family as well as managing the concentration […]
Twisters Review
1996 saw the release of Twister, a disaster film that many have nostalgic feelings for. 28 years later it has been given the legacy sequel treatment that focuses on a new generation of storm chasers. Kate Carter (Daisy Edgar-Jones) is a gifted meteorologist who gave up storm chasing after three of her friends died during a […]
Alice in Terrorland Review
Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is one of the most adapted novels to screen and it serves as the inspiration for the horror film Alice in Terrorland. Alice (Lizzy Willis) is a teenage girl who moves in with her grandmother (Rula Lenska) after her parents die in a house fire. Alice’s grandmother tells the […]
The Jetty Review
The Jetty is a female-centric police procedural starring and produced by Jenna Coleman. Ember Manning (Coleman) is a Detective Constable in a small town in Lancashire. The town is infamous for the disappearance of Amy Knightly 17 years prior. When Ember investigates an arson attack on the jetty it spirals into a case involving a pregnant […]
MaXXXine Review
Ti West’s X Trilogy comes to a close with MaXXXine and takes the series to a new genre and location. Six years after the events of X, Maxine Minx (Mia Goth) attempts to transition from pornography to professional acting. Maxine has her big break when she’s cast in the horror movie Puritan II, but this is put in jeopardy when a […]
Halo: The Master Chief Collection Review
Master Chief Petty Officer John-117 is one of the most recognisable characters in gaming and is the de-facto mascot for Xbox. His games were some of the big-ticket items for the consoles and as someone who recently changed from PlayStation to Xbox, Halo: The Master Chief Collection offered my first experience with the franchise. The Master […]