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Rating
Title/Year
Author
1
2/5
Effects (1978)
2
3/5
The Blockhouse (1973)
3
4/5
Alone with You (2021)
It's an absorbing film that shows what can be done with limited environments and Bennett's performance is a tour de force. Well worth catching.
Posted Feb 1, 2022
4
4/5
Sing 2 (2021)
5
2/5
The Mangler (1994)
The Mangler is largely a dull, soulless and dated viewing experience.
Posted Jan 28, 2022
6
4/5
Sing a Bit of Harmony (2022)
Sing a Bit of Harmony is a delightful little story that, although not as powerful or as spectacular as some of its peers, still provides a heartful two hours of entertainment.
Posted Jan 28, 2022
7
2/5
The Midnight Swim (2015)
There's nothing dramatic here, no realisation of hidden horrors, just a slow, tangible tension that is disquieting if not exactly frightening.
Posted Jan 28, 2022
8
4/5
Nightmare Alley (2021)
9
2/5
The Wanting Mare (2020)
10
4/5
Whether you're a fan of classic horror or cinema in general, this is an essential watch.
Posted Jan 24, 2022
11
3/5
The Wasteland (2022)
12
5/5
Scream (2022)
2022's Scream is the best in the series since the original and, in this writer's view, is one of the best slashers of the century so far.
Posted Jan 20, 2022
13
3/5
Cyrano (2022)
So, while Cyrano is best left to theatre storytellers, the movie is nevertheless enjoyable, and with that, it gets three stars.
Posted Jan 20, 2022
14
3/5
Mother/Android (2021)
Low budget sci-fi flick Mother/Android, written and directed by Mattson Tomlin, is no masterpiece but it's a step in the right direction.
Posted Jan 20, 2022
15
4/5
The Devil to Pay (2020)
This first feature by co-writers and co-directors Lane and Ruckus Skye is an impressive and captivating debut.
Posted Jan 14, 2022
16
4/5
Forgiveness (2021)
Forgiveness is packed full of disturbing imagery with a surreal edge and is terrifyingly mesmerising.
Posted Jan 13, 2022
17
4/5
Petite Maman (2021)
18
4/5
Barbarians (2022)
Although it's superb to watch, this is one dinner party you'll be glad you weren't invited to.
Posted Jan 11, 2022
19
3/5
Sleep (Schlaf) (2020)
An intriguing visual cocktail of Kafka, Lynch and the Brothers Grimm.
Posted Jan 7, 2022
20
4/5
The King's Man (2021)
21
4/5
Don't Look Up (2021)
Don't Look Up is a sizzling, coruscating, and biting satire on the modern world and our collective priorities.
Posted Jan 7, 2022
22
3/5
The Kindred (2022)
There's a good story in The Kindred, but unfortunately, it misses the mark more than it hits.
Posted Jan 7, 2022
23
3/5
South of Heaven (2021)
The performances in South of Heaven - at least those of Sudeikis, Whigham, and Colter - are solid, if unflashy.
Posted Jan 7, 2022
24
4/5
Swan Song (2021)
Swan Song is a powerful, evocative story told in a measured, almost matter-of-fact fashion.
Posted Jan 7, 2022
25
1/5
The Matrix Resurrections (2021)
26
5/5
Titane (2021)
Julia Ducournau helms a thoughtful rumination on found family, gender, and sexuality that's rich in disturbing body horror and violent extremes.
Posted Jan 4, 2022
27
3/5
The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021)
Joel Coen helms a handsome but disappointingly passive adaptation of Shakespeare's Macbeth.
Posted Jan 4, 2022
28
4/5
Michele Soavi's eighties shocker is as visually stylish as you'd expect and more entertaining than you remember.
Posted Dec 23, 2021
29
4/5
No Time To Die (2021)
A big, ambitious, explosive endgame for Craig's fifteen-year tenure as Bond.
Posted Dec 17, 2021
30
5/5
Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021)
No Way Home not only meets those grand standards it boldly aims for, it swings over them in style and delivers maybe the greatest entry in the MCU.
Posted Dec 17, 2021
31
2/5
Puppet Killer (2019)
An uninspired yet amusing slasher take on Wet Hot American Summer.
Posted Dec 14, 2021
32
3/5
The Advent Calendar (2021)
33
1/5
The Ghosts of Borley Rectory (2021)
34
3/5
See For Me (2022)
Randall Okita's home invasion thriller treads little new ground - it's The Call by way of Panic Room - but boasts an interesting set of heroes and villains.
Posted Dec 13, 2021
35
4/5
Clifford the Big Red Dog (2021)
Beast filmmaker Michael Pearce's second feature offers another engaging, character-driven story wrapped in a genre-bending package.
Posted Dec 3, 2021
36
3/5
Castle Falls (2021)
A film with a killer concept, which despite getting tripped up by exposition, delivers thrills and decent action.
Posted Dec 3, 2021
37
4/5
Encounter (2021)
38
2/5
13 Minutes (2021)
What's odd about the film's finale is the lack of interest that it has in the themes of redemption or renewal.
Posted Dec 1, 2021
39
3/5
Isolation (2021)
It's a grim, often disturbing watch and very well made
Posted Dec 1, 2021
40
2/5
A faux-documentary comedy/horror that is neither funny nor scary enough.
Posted Nov 29, 2021
41
4/5
Repeat (2021)
This inventive independent British film punches well above its weight and is a welcome entry to the afterlife thriller subgenre.
Posted Nov 29, 2021
42
3/5
Lamb (2021)
If there's something Lamb has in abundance it's originality.
Posted Nov 29, 2021
43
4/5
Shepherd (2022)
Shepherd is a brooding, bleak, atmospheric nightmare that grips with ease.
Posted Nov 28, 2021
44
4/5
Clifford the Big Red Dog (2021)
[It] may not be quite Paddington level when it comes to masterful children's book-to-screen entertainment. But the audience will likely love it nonetheless.
Posted Nov 28, 2021
45
2/5
Habit (2021)
46
3/5
Encanto (2021)
Visually, Disney's Encanto sets the bar high for the studio's future animated efforts.
Posted Nov 19, 2021
47
1/5
Home Sweet Home Alone (2021)
Home Sweet Home Alone is as utterly forgettable as it gets.
Posted Nov 19, 2021
48
4/5
Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021)
Its ability to pull off an air of childhood magic without seeming twee or mawkish is one of Ghostbusters: Afterlife's greatest achievements.
Posted Nov 17, 2021
49
4/5
Prisoners of the Ghostland (2021)
Prisoners of the Ghostland is a hard film to take seriously. Thankfully, it doesn't take itself all that seriously either.
Posted Nov 12, 2021
50
3/5
Night at the Eagle Inn (2021)