For those of you who have been following me for a while you’ll already know that I am a big fan of mystery screenings, they are a great opportunity to watch films that might otherwise slip under the radar and whilst not every mystery screening delivers the goods, I have been able to discover some…
Tag: Thriller
Knock At The Cabin (2023)
Personally I quite enjoyed M. Night Shyamalan’s last two films, Old (2021) and Glass (2019), but neither of them set the box office alight or received much acclaim from critics and fans alike so it kind of feels as though Shyamalan needs something of a win. His latest endeavour Knock At The Cabin is an…
The Menu (2022) Film Review
Despite being what one might consider a ‘fussy eater’, I do like food and I’ve watched enough episodes of cooking programmes such as Masterchef and Great British Menu to have at least a basic understanding of, and appreciation for, fine dining. So, when I first saw the teaser trailer for screenwriter’s Will Tracy’s The Menu,…
The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window (2022)
As fans of cinema and TV we do have a certain level of tolerance for the ridiculousness that sometimes comes with our favourite form of escapism. We like to poke holes in the logic of science-fiction, roll our eyes at the bad guy’s terrible aim in action movies and throw our hands up in exasperation…
Scream (2022) Film Review
Twenty-five years ago Wes Craven’s Scream breathed new life into a flagging genre spawning three sequels and the hilarious parody series Scary Movie. For many, this franchise sparked a love of horror but for eight-year old me it gave me a suitably terrifying boogeyman and something of a love-hate relationship with the slasher genre as…
Clickbait (2021) Series Review
A few weeks before the Korean series Squid Game exploded onto our screens and dominated the Netflix top ten, Clickbait was enjoying it’s fifteen minutes of fame. The eight-part limited series, created by Tony Ayres, is a clever suspenseful thriller that is kicked off in quite spectacular fashion after a video appears on the web…
Voyagers (2021) Film Review
From invading aliens attacking the White House to a runaway virus turning the world into flesh-eating zombies to forcing children to fight each other to the death for the entertainment of the rich and wealthy, catastrophe and global destruction is not really anything new in the world of cinema but one common concept is becoming…
The Guilty (2021)
Jake Gyllenhaal is one of Hollywood’s most consistent, and consistently under appreciated, actors working today – and I’ll admit I am guilty of it myself (pun not intended) – but he, once again, delivers the goods in Antoine Fuqua’s remake of the 2018 Danish film The Guilty. Joe Baylor (Gyllenhaal) is a disgraced police officer…
Beckett (2021) Film Review
As someone who writes about film and TV you would think that I would try and keep on top of all the upcoming films but I really don’t. Part of the reason is because I want to try and go into a movie with no prior expectations or pre-conceptions, the other (somewhat larger) part is…
Whiplash (2014) Film Review
Even though Damien Chazelle’s Whiplash was one of those ‘Best Picture’ films that I felt like I should watch just because it was nominated for a best picture Oscar, I never really had much inclination to do so and so it stayed on the outer edges of my, mentally kept, watchlist. When I recently found…
Promising Young Woman (2020) Film Review
Each year there always seems to be one particular film that everyone, and I mean everyone, is either talking about or hearing about. Last time it was Bong Joon Ho’s history making Parasite, this time it’s Emerald Fennell’s #metoo era black-comedy thriller Promising Young Woman that was making all the waves. Now I’ve been wanting…
Below Zero (2021) Film Review
To take the stress out of deciding what movie to watch, and save a certain someone from getting the blame if the film turns out to be sh*t, I decided to create a lucky dip and the first test of our new system was the new Spanish drama film Bajocero aka Below Zero. Set over…
Film Review: The Devil All The Time (2020)
I’ll admit that I’ve been going through a bit of a movie slump at the moment but if there was anything to help entice me out of that slump it was the fantastic line up of Netflix’s latest film, The Devil All The Time, directed by Antonio Campos. If Tom Holland and Robert Pattinson is…
Film Review: Parasite (2019)
One of the worst things about being a film fan in the UK is that we typically get theatrical releases some time after our American cousins. Thanks to my American blogger friends Parasite was on my must watch list long before it started making its landmark waves on the awards circuit. When it was finally…
Parasite (2019) Film Review
One of the worst things about being a film fan in the UK is that we typically get theatrical releases some time after our American cousins. Thanks to my American blogger friends Parasite was on my must watch list long before it started making its landmark waves on the awards circuit. When it was finally…
Hidden Gem: Chloe (2009)
Director: Atom Egoyan Starring: Amanda Seyfried, Julianne Moore, Liam Neeson Tagline: Desire Can Be Dangerous At first glance, Catherine (Julianne Moore), a gynecologist, and David Stewart (Liam Neeson), a college professor, and their musically talented teenage son (Max Thieriot) are the perfect family; happily married, wealthy and well-respected by their peers. But when David misses…
Film Review: Secret Obsession (2019)
One of the best things about streaming services like Netflix and Amazon is that you have so many new films and TV programmes literally at your fingertips. It is the perfect place to simply wile away an afternoon when really you should be hoovering up the cat hair and clearing the mound of washing up…
Series Review: Bodyguard (2018)
The British thriller series, Bodyguard, has been on my must-watch list since it first aired on the BBC back in August of last year but it always seemed to take a back seat. This weekend, we finally got around to watching it on Netflix and I’ll be honest, it had me hooked from the beginning,…
Film Review: Us (2019)
Whilst I love a good psychological thriller, I am not a fan of stereotypical jump-scare films that have little-to-no plot. This means that the horror genre is a little bit of minefield for me, and one that will usually get pushed to the side in favour of a less hide-under-my-coat film. That being said, Jordan…