FrightFest 2014: ‘Extraterrestrial’ review
★★☆☆☆ Four years after making a respectable impact with his debut Timecrimes (2007), Nacho Vigalondo returns with Extraterrestrial (2011), a low-budget Spanish science fiction...
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23 April 2020
Film Review: Astronaut
★★★☆☆ Richard Dreyfuss stars in Astronaut, Shelagh McLeod feature film debut, in which she also doubles up as screenwriter. It’s a low-key affair that...
2 July 2019
Edinburgh 2019: Synonyms review
★★★★☆ Golden Bear-winning cultural assimilation drama Synonyms is expertly handled by its director Nadav Lapid. That of relocating, whether it be by city, country...
2 July 2019
Film Review: Mrs Lowry & Son
★★☆☆☆ Five years after portraying J.M.W. Turner in Mike Leigh’s award-winning biographical drama Mr Turner, Timothy Spall takes on the role of another English...
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Film Review: ‘What If’
★★★☆☆ Daniel Radcliffe continues to stretch his capacity in Michael Dowse’s What If (2013), a smart and funny American romantic comedy that puts a...
Film Review: ‘Sin City: A Dame to Kill For’
★★☆☆☆ Nine years after the release of 2005’s Sin City, directors Robert Rodriquez and Frank Miller (who also wrote the script) reunite for Sin...
DVD Review: ‘The Quiet Ones’
★★☆☆☆ After achieving relative recent success with 2010’s Let Me In (directed by Matt Reeves) and 2012’s Victorian frightener The Woman in Black, the...
Film Review: ‘The Unbeatables’
★★☆☆☆ Premièred at last year’s San Sebastian Festival, The Unbeatables (2013) – previously entitled Metegol (Foosball) – is a curious breed of animated adventure...
Film Review: ‘Hector and the Search for Happiness’
★☆☆☆☆ A misfiring Simon Pegg slips up yet again in Peter Chelsom’s Hector & the Search for Happiness (2014), a woeful excuse for a...
Film Review: ‘The Expendables 3’
★★☆☆☆ Sylvester Stallone and his ragtag team of aging action heroes return in the much-pirated The Expendables 3 (2014), the third and potentially final...
Film Review: ‘The Inbetweeners 2’
★★☆☆☆ The original Inbetweeners Movie (2011) surprised both critics and audiences alike with its financial success. The big screen version of British TV series...
