Charlotte is an indie British thriller that premiered at Frightfest 2024 and is now available on Amazon Prime. Roy (Dean Kilbey) is a man who lives alone in the middle of the Yorkshire Dales. He is on the sex offenders register, banned from internet access, and is spot-checked by the police. One night a young […]
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Sound of Freedom Review
Sound of Freedom has become one of the most talked about films of 2023 and has been the centre of the culture war. The question is, is this attention justified? Tim Ballard (Jim Caviezel) is a Homeland Security Agent working in Calexico, California. When he arrests a paedophile, it leads the agent to stop a young […]
Hypnotic Review
Hypnotic is a mind-bending sci-thriller that cult filmmaker Robert Rodriguez had written back in 2002. Danny Rourke (Ben Affleck) is an Austin Police Detective whose daughter has been kidnapped and murdered. He gets a tip off that a bank is about to be robbed. This case is stranger than Rourke expected since the perpetrator, “Dellrayne” (William Fichtner) […]
How to Blow Up a Pipeline Review
The world is currently in eco-conscious times and more people are voicing and protesting about these issues. How to Blow Up a Pipeline explores the idea of people taking extreme action to save the environment. A group of disenfranchised young people brought together by Xochiti (Ariela Barer), a college student and activist. They arrive in West Texas […]
Missing Review
Missing is a standalone sequel to the screen time thriller Searching. June Allen (Storm Reid) is an 18-year-old girl with an overly protective mother, Grace (Nia Long). When Grace goes on a trip to Columbia with her boyfriend, Kevin (Ken Leung), June gets a week of freedom. However, Grace and Kevin don’t return, June is forced to […]
The Menu Review
The Menu is the second meal theme film to be released this year in the UK. The first was the Welsh film The Feast. Both films have their own take on the class divide. Hawthorne is an exclusive restaurant on an island. The chef is the celebrated Julian Slowik (Ralph Fiennes) and his meals always have […]
Don’t Worry Darling Review
Don’t Worry Darling, the ambitious new thriller that is as star-studded as it is scandal-ridden. At this point, it is nearly impossible to separate the film from the controversies surrounding it in the headlines. I’ll be the first to admit that I was looking forward to this movie prior to its current tabloid messiness. The […]
Beast Review
Sharks, whales, wolves, and bears served as the villains in the movies to show the rampart force of nature. Lions have also gotten this treatment with Beast. Nate Samuels (Idris Elba) is a doctor and widower who takes his daughters to South Africa. They met Nate’s old friend and gamekeeper, Martin (Sharlto Copley) who takes the […]
Nightmare Alley (2021) Review
Nightmare Alley is the first film made by Guillermo del Toro since winning Academy Awards for his monster romance The Shape of Water. This time he has made a neo-noir mystery involving people faking that they have mystical powers. In 1939 Stanton “Stan” Carlisle (Bradley Cooper) leaves his home and takes a job in a travelling […]
Vigil Episode One & Two Review
Vigil is the latest police thriller from World Productions, with Jed Mercurio, the creator of Line of Duty credited as a producer. The first two episodes were shown on Sunday and Monday night in the UK to ensure viewers would be hooked in. A fishing trawler sinks near where the British nuclear submarine, HMS Vigil, was patrolling. […]