Brawl In Cell Block 99

Brawl In Cell Block 99

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...

All Eyez On Me

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 ...
The Death of Stalin

The Death Of Stalin

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...
Happy Death Day

Happy Death Day

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...
Alone in Berlin

Alone in Berlin

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...
Leatherface

How To Survive A Hallowe’en Horror

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...
The Mountain Between Us

The Mountain Between Us

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...
The Neon Demon

Six Of The Best: Hallowe’en on Netflix

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...

6 Below: Miracle On The Mountain

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...

Stratton

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...