Brawl In Cell Block 99 is the film that will cement the reputation of it’s director S. Craig Zahler. His directorial debut Bone Tomahawk was noted as being an impressive debut – mixing to...
Fresh off the success of N.W.A biographical film, Straight Outta Compton, the life of Tupac Shakur is finally brought to the big screen. The production underwent many creative changes over the years ...
How do you make widespread poverty, fear, labour camps and shootings seem funny? You create a comedy of terrors, of course. Armando Iannucci’s latest scathing satire succeeds in having you laug...
Slasher films for the most part follow a strict criteria of guidelines. Scream famously lampooned these guidelines as it reinvented the wheel, before becoming a victim of its own clichés. Happy Death...
When Hans Fallada sat down to write Every Man Dies Alone, he was creating one of the first anti-Nazi books to be published in post-war Germany. Having spent many years incarcerated in an insane asylu...
As Hallowe’en fast approaches, you may well find yourself running away from a crazed serial killer, an axe wielding stalker, a creepy clown or some sort of mutant creature (we have no idea what the k...
Romance sells, audiences love the predictability of the plot and expect the clichés presented to them. The Mountain Between Us doesn’t disappoint in this regard, but what makes it original is its pre...
It’s almost that time of year again where you have to close the curtains and switch off all the lights to stop kids in costumes chapping your door and asking for sweeties. Yes, it’s nearly Hallowe’en...
You have to ask why Josh Hartnett appears in movies like this. He is a reasonably well known actor and has appeared in a number of pretty good dramas over the years including I Come With The Rain, Pe...
Sometimes the portents of doom are correct. Stratton had a bit of a traumatic journey to the screen and in many ways it is a surprise it made it all. The lead role was originally filled by Henry Cavi...