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UK Film Review
- Aug 17, 2018
- 2 min
Susan indie film
★ Directed by: Mahmoud Shoolizadeh Starring: Jennifer Preston, Mitchell Thornton and Holly Lawton Short Film Review by: Annie Vincent Susan: a kind, thoughtful woman who loses everything, is placed in the worst circumstances anyone can imagine, has her life fall down around her completely and still finds a way to carry on. When a ‘rising from the ashes’ family drama is dangled in front of me, I am hopeful. Aren’t we all? Dramas are great, even if they cost you a box of tissue
UK Film Review
- Jul 1, 2018
- 2 min
Spidarlings indie film
★ Directed by: Salem Kapsaski
Starring: Sophia Disgrace, Rahel Kapsaski, and Lee Mark Jones
Indie Film Review by: Owen Herman Spidarlings is certainly difficult to categorise, but it is perhaps best described as a horror-comedy-musical that takes a turn for the surreal. It tells the story of a couple, played by Sophia Disgrace and Rahel Kapsaski, struggling to make ends meet and pay rent. Matilda (Rahel Kapsaski) works in a seedy bar and is struggling with an oddball admirer
UK Film Review
- Apr 22, 2018
- 3 min
Reflections in the Mirror short film
★ Directed by: Aaron Pacentine Starring: Randy Bruce, Jason Smither and Rhonda Linda Clark Short Film Review by: Annie Vincent If you have never seen The Wizard of Oz or its sequel Return to Oz, you really, really should. The first film, a musical made in 1939 and starring Judy Garland, is a beautiful adaptation of Baum’s book from 1900 and follows Dorothy as a tornado transports her to Oz and she embarks on a journey to find the Wizard who can send her home, meeting a variet
UK Film Review
- Apr 20, 2018
- 2 min
Truth or Dare film review
★ Directed by Jeff Wadlow Starring Lucy Hale, Violett Beane, Sophia Ali, Tyler Posey, Hayden Szeto Film Review by Hope Madden Do people over the age of 8 still honestly play Truth or Dare? This idea surprises me. Aren’t there video games kids can be wasting time with? I suppose the real surprise is that it took four years for a film to rip off It Follows. The new PG-13 horror from Blumhouse, Truth or Dare, takes a stab at it. No, it’s not sex. But it is a curse that you pass
UK Film Review
- Apr 17, 2018
- 2 min
Rampage film review
★ Directed by Brad Payton Starring Dwayne Johnson, Naomie Harris, Malin Akerman, Jeffrey Dean Morgan Film Review by Matt Weiner Here’s something I never thought I’d say: I miss the cohesive vision of Battleship, a movie that is no longer the dullest adaptation of a game. That’s because Rampage exists, the latest video game adaptation to suggest that Hollywood is intentionally tanking these things to convince audiences that movies are a superior medium. To be fair, there are f
UK Film Review
- Feb 16, 2018
- 2 min
Fifty Shades Freed film review
★ Directed by James Foley Starring Dakota Johnson, Jamie Dornan Film Review by Matt Weiner Boiling down the Fifty Shades movies into a capsule summary has always felt a bit like playing Mad Libs with a head injury, and Fifty Shades Freed gleefully continues the trend. Anastasia Steele and Christian Grey (Dakota Johnson and Jamie Dornan, each blinking out Morse code to their agents throughout the franchise) are now married. Christian’s dominant side causes fresh problems for A
UK Film Review
- Feb 9, 2018
- 3 min
Winchester film review
★ Directed by The Spierig Brothers
Starring Helen Mirren, Jason Clarke
Film Review by Brian Degning The Winchester Mystery House in San Jose, California, is considered by many people as the most haunted house in North America. It was the former residence of Sarah Winchester, widower of firearm magnate William Winchester and heir to the companies’ massive fortune. After her husband’s death, she used her wealth to continually build many elaborate rooms and extensions which s
UK Film Review
- Nov 8, 2017
- 3 min
Geostorm
★ Directed by Dean Devlin Starring Gerard Butler, Jim Sturgess, Abbie Cornish, Ed Harris Film Review by Jack Bottomley When it comes to destructive movies, disaster master Roland Emmerich is the first name that springs to mind and the biggest surprise ahead of Geostorm was that the film was not helmed by him but instead by Independence Day co-writer Dean Devlin. Over the course of the last 20 years, the genre has really done a lot to our little planet, it has bombarded it wit
UK Film Review
- Oct 25, 2017
- 4 min
The Taker's Crown indie film
★ Directed by Josiah Swanson Starring Tim Kaiser, Tiffany Burns, Jared Withrow, Eric Moyer, Noah Robbie, Greg J. Wolfe, Mike T. Tremblay, Alethea Varner Indie Film Review by Jack Gibbs Sometimes a movie comes along and swiftly proves itself entertaining for all the wrong reasons. These films can emerge from anywhere, from well-financed Hollywood creations sporting magnetic names to independent productions made free from the restraints of studio executives. In this case, it co
UK Film Review
- Sep 11, 2017
- 3 min
The Case for Christ
★ Directed by Jon Gunn Screenplay by Brian Bird Based on The Case For Christ by Lee Strobel Starring Mike Vogel, Erika Christensen, L. Scott Caldwell, Robert Forster, and Faye Dunaway Film Review by Euan Franklin Respected journalist Lee Strobel (Mike Vogel) has dinner at a restaurant with his wife, Leslie (Erika Christensen), and his daughter. Preparing for pudding, the daughter chokes on a jawbreaker and a nearby nurse, Alfie (L. Scott Caldwell), rushes over to save the lit
UK Film Review
- Aug 27, 2017
- 3 min
Apotheosis indie film
★ Directed by Catherine Vaughan and Ben Vaughan
Starring Catherine Vaughan, Sarah Banerjee, Lillie-Louise McKeague-Pittman
Indie Film Review by Annie Vincent Apotheosis is the debut feature film from 15 year old Catherine Vaughan who, together with her father Ben, has set out to produce a musical (of sorts) which explores mental health issues in teenagers, with a particular focus on schizophrenia. When a teenage girl, played by Vaughan, has been driven to her wits end by the
UK Film Review
- Aug 4, 2017
- 7 min
The Emoji Movie
★ Directed by Tony Leondis Starring T.J. Miller, James Corden, Anna Faris, Sofía Vergara, Film Review by Jack Gibbs The simplest questions are often the most profound. In the immortal words of the Bard, brevity is the soul of wit, and from this thing's conception to release one short, enduring question was on the tongues of those who followed its development with abject disbelief and those who left theatres with ashen faces and mortified minds. Why? Why, in another hapless bi
UK Film Review
- Jul 10, 2017
- 2 min
Picture of Beauty indie film
★ Written & Directed by Maxim Ford Starring Taylor Sands, Danielle Rose, Pawel Hajnos Indie Film Review by Andrew Galvin The rise of the ease of access to hardcore pornography has caused a lot of problems for Western society, but it’s had one advantage: soft porn nonsense posing as art has died away in recent years. Clearly no one has told writer-director Maxim Ford, whose debut feature Picture of Beauty has pretensions to musing on the nature of repression. It isn’t. Instead
UK Film Review
- Jun 16, 2017
- 3 min
The Mummy
★ Directed by Alex Kurtzman Starring Tom Cruise, Sofia Boutella, Annabelle Wallis, Russell Crowe, and Jake Johnson Film Review by Niall Maggs So The Mummy is the first entry into a new cinematic universe, known as 'The Dark Universe' in which a series of films will be released, based on 'Universal Monsters' that will feature Frankenstein, Dracula, The Invisible Man etc. The first entry is a big disappointment. First of all, the film did have some good aspects about it. It loo
UK Film Review
- Apr 22, 2017
- 2 min
Nutshells indie film
★ Directed by Rob Carpenter Starring Casey Manderson, Michael Brian Indie Film Review by Lucas Wilson Friedrich Nietzsche once declared that every book can be summarised by one sentence and that the rest was merely babble. If time travel were possible and he were willing to extend his wit to film, I’d defy him to summarise either the essence or the point of Nutshells, a comedy-drama inflicted on the world by Rob Carpenter. It isn’t just that Nutshells makes you ask yourself w
UK Film Review
- Feb 25, 2017
- 3 min
Delusion indie film
★ Directed by Christopher Di Nunzio Starring David Graziano, Jami Tennille, Irina Peligrad, Kris Salvi, Carlyne Fournier and Renee Lawrie Indie Film Review by Michael Fiott Delusion tells the story of Frank (David Graziano), a widower of three years who receives a letter from his deceased wife. After being encouraged by his nephew to meet somebody new, Frank crosses paths with Mary (Jami Tennille), an attractive and mysterious woman who leads him down a dark and spiritual pat
UK Film Review
- Feb 23, 2017
- 3 min
Fifty Shades Darker
★ Directed By James Foley
Starring Jamie Dornan, Dakota Johnson, Eric Johnson, Kim Basinger, Marcia Gay Harden Film Review by Jack Bottomley Well...in a year full of big sequels (Pirates of the Caribbean: Salazar’s Revenge, War of the Planet of the Apes, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2) and reboots (Kong: Skull Island), we approach one that is pretty darn divisive. The Fifty Shades novels by E.L. James are - like it or not - one of the biggest literary adult phenomena's to em
UK Film Review
- Aug 25, 2016
- 2 min
Mob Handed indie film
★ Written and directed by Liam Galvin
Starring Robin Reid, Yvette Rowland, Jason Marriner & Jeff Stewart
Indie Film Review by Hannah Sayer Liam Galvin’s vigilante drama Mob Handed is his second film after the controversial 2010 film Killer Bitch. The film garnered a great deal of publicity during filming as it was reported to contain graphic scenes of violence and extreme sexual content, which turned out to be exaggerated. Following on from this controversy, Galvin chooses t
UK Film Review
- Jul 12, 2016
- 2 min
Concepts of Desire short film
Directed by Peter Coukis
Short film review by Sarah Smeaton Concepts of Desire does most certainly provide a portrayal of the origins of desire for heterosexual men. I’m just a little confused as to what its intention is as a piece of cinematography. Claiming to be based on the book The Joy of Sex, which was essentially a ‘how to’ manual, published in the early 1970s to confront sex in a colourful an explorative fashion, this video does little to align itself with the book ot
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