When delivering big monster movies to the screen, screenwriters and directors can often forget that what people want to see are cool monster moments. This unfortunately means that we get a lot of human characters we don’t really care about, … Continue reading Godzilla: King of Monsters (2019) Review
There is a frustrating conflict at the heart of Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark. On one hand this is a generic horror movie, with forgettable teenagers forced to deal with a supernatural curse/power which nobody else believes and … Continue reading Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (2019) Review
The success of The Assistant comes in the ordinary. The film portrays a regular day in Julia Garner’s Jane, as she gets to her job as an assistant for a movie, before everyone else, carrying out the mundane but apparently … Continue reading The Assistant (2019) Review
Casting Octavia Spencer as an obsessed, creepy and twisted lady in this Blumhouse horror is a masterstroke. Playing against type and clearly enjoying every moment of the role, Spencer brings the role the right level of disturbed menace, as she … Continue reading Ma (2019) Review
The groundwork had been set so well in the first chapter that you couldn’t help but be excited for the possibility of return of Pennywise. The scares, the characters and the way relationships had been built in the first film … Continue reading IT: Chapter 2 (2019) Review
The best documentaries rely on credible and accurate information. If Fyre hadn’t been a documentary and hadn’t been filled with talking head interviews from people that witnessed the chaos and bizarre event first-hand, you’d think this was a wacky Seth … Continue reading Fyre (2019) Review
Some films have a concept so unique that you can’t help but find yourself intrigued. Yesterday is that sort of film, taking a very simple idea and developing it well. The film centres around Himesh Patel, who while blacked out … Continue reading Yesterday (2019) Review
Its a bold move to try to continue what is considered by many a perfect trilogy. Although Hollywood has always had a tendency to milk successful franchises beyond their creative limit, Pixar felt like it could have been different and … Continue reading Toy Story 4 (2019) Review
Midsommar is perfectly unnerving. It is horror in its purest sense, in that you are never really scared, there are no “cattle-prod” scares that jolt you in your seat or force a weak scream. Instead this film presents you with … Continue reading Midsommar (2019) Review
Taron Egerton is fast becoming one of the most exciting stars in Hollywood. From Eggsy in Kingsman through to Robin Hood, he has shown he has the required action credentials but it his work here as Elton John which shows … Continue reading Rocketman (2019) Review
