Pretty Little Liars meets The Craft in Light As A Feather Season 1, available to stream now on All4 By Poppy-Jay Palmer 23-04-19 1,001 Creator: R Lee Fleming Jr Cast: Liana Liberato, Haley Ramm, Ajiona Alexus, Brianne Tju, Peyton List Distributor: All4 For those missing the Pretty Little Liars comes Light As A Feather, Hulu’s
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Jump into adventure (and evolution) with Laika’s charming stop motion flick Missing Link By Poppy-Jay Palmer 23-04-19 2,272 Released: Out now Certificate: PG Director: Chris Butler Cast: Hugh Jackman, Zoe Saldana, Zach Galifianakis, Emma Thompson, Timothy Olyphant, Stephen Fry Distributor: United Artists Releasing Over the years, stop motion animation studio Laika has proven itself to
It’s as unfair to approach Neil Marshall’s Hellboy pondering the what-ifs of Guillermo del Toro’s un-filmed trilogy closer as it is impossible. While this new take on Mike Mignola’s comic goes to some lengths to establish its own world and tone, there’s no escaping its predecessors’ long shadows. Which wouldn’t be such a problem if
“Unclassifiable” can be such a lovely thing. It’s easy to understand why we’re always in such a rush to put stories into a genre, and then a sub-genre, whether you’re a publisher, reviewer or a fan, but there’s something quite wonderful about taking a step into an uncertain world. Especially when you’re in the hands
An endlessly good young man might just be miraculous in Alice Rohrwacher’s superb Happy As Lazzaro By Jonathan Hatfull 05-04-19 6,949 Released: 5 April 2019 Certificate: 12A Director: Alice Rohrwacher Writer: Alice Rohrwacher Cast: Adriano Tardiolo, Alba Rohrwacher, Sergi López, Nicoletta Braschi Distributor: Modern Films If you like this, try… Wings Of Desire The late
A grieving father is drawn into a dangerous conspiracy in near-future SF Zero Bomb By Jonathan Hatfull 04-04-19 7 Author: MT Hill Publisher: Titan Books Buy on Amazon If you like this, try… Kraken by China Miéville A missing giant squid is the catalyst for an impossible mystery Anyone looking to escape the grim reality
Does Paramount’s Pet Sematary adaptation live up to Stephen King’s book? By Katherine McLaughlin 02-04-19 1 Released: 4 April 2019 Certificate: 15 Director: Kevin Kölsch, Dennis Widmyer Cast: Jason Clarke, John Lithgow, Amy Seimetz Distributor: Paramount If you like this, try… Wendigo Larry Fessenden’s creepy take on the Wendigo legend. The recent surge of Stephen
The story of Norwegian band Mayhem is turned into a stomach-turning and intelligent horror film with Lords Of Chaos By Katherine McLaughlin 29-03-19 1,365 Released: 29 March 2019 Certificate: 18 Director: Jonas Åkerlund Writer: Dennis Magnusson, Jonas Åkerlund Cast: Rory Culkin, Emory Cohen, Jack Kilmer Distributor: Arrow Films If you like this, try… Green Room
Few filmmakers mix childlike wonder and freaky oddity quite as effectively as Tim Burton. So when it was revealed that he’d be helming Dumbo, Disney’s latest in a long line of live action adaptations, he seemed like the perfect fit. Fans of his could hardly wait to see how he’d interpret the iconic ‘Pink Elephants
Let’s get this out of the way first – Shazam! is the best DC movie since The Dark Knight. Sure, it has the benefit of being able to fly under the radar a bit – it doesn’t have to carry the weight of expectations that Wonder Woman did, and it doesn’t have to handle the
Taking place across multiple decades, Cities Of Last Things is an inventive triptych narrative movie from Malaysian-born Taiwanese writer-director Ho Wi Ding. It presents three tragic episodes related to one man, in reverse chronological order, so as to examine how these events informed the way his life would develop. Jack Kao plays the oldest incarnation
It takes tremendous skill to completely immerse a viewer in an environment and there is no question that, whether you like it or not, you’ll be locked into the world of Relaxer inside a couple of minutes. The latest film from writer-director Joel Potrykus (Buzzard, Ape) is entirely set in a single grubby apartment with
Things get even more weird in Netflix’s The OA Season 2 By Poppy-Jay Palmer 19-03-19 2,100 Released: 22 March 2019 Creator: Brit Marling and Zal Batmanglij Cast: Brit Marling, Jason Isaacs, Emory Cohen, Kingsley Ben-Adir, Patrick Gibson Distributor: Netflix If you like this, try… Russian Doll Almost as trippy as The OA and just as
The Young Ones meets Phantom Of The Paradise in the restoration of The Legend Of The Stardust Brothers By Josh Slater-Williams 19-03-19 2,971 Released: TBC Director: Macoto Tezuka Cast: Shingo Kubota, Kan Takagi, Kyôko Togawa, Kiyohiko Ozaki Distributor: Third Window Films If you like this, try… Phantom Of The Paradise Brian De Palma’s music industry
After helming some of the most austere, polarising films in French arthouse cinema, writer-director Bruno Dumont made a surprise swerve into the world of TV in 2014 with P’tit Quinquin, a miniseries that premiered at Cannes in a (still long) film version later released in UK cinemas. A blackly comic murder mystery, the show starts
Jordan Peele follows Get Out with an ambitious and topical horror rollercoaster By Jonathan Hatfull 18-03-19 5 Released: 22 March 2019 Certificate: 15 Director: Jordan Peele Writer: Jordan Peele Cast: Lupita Nyong’o, Winston Duke, Elisabeth Moss, Tim Heidecker, Shahadi Wright Joseph, Evan Alex Distributor: Universal If you like this, try… Funny Games Michael Haneke’s home
Does horror The Prodigy push beyond the standard spooky kid template? By Amy West 15-03-19 1,194 Released: 15 March 2019 Certificate: 15 Director: Nicholas McCarthy Writer: Jeff Buhler Cast: Taylor Schilling, Jackson Robert Scott, Peter Mooney, Colm Feore, Brittany Allen Distributor: Vertigo Releasing If you like this, try… The Omen Creepy kids don’t come any
Here’s our review of animated anthology series Love, Death & Robots, on Netflix from 15 March By Abigail Chandler 14-03-19 586 Released: 15 March 2019 Cast: Multi Distributor: Netflix If you like this, try… The Animatrix This anthology is better than both of the live action Matrix sequels, and stands the test of time. Netflix
“This house is a bitch,” pastor Ellie Mueller (Karen Woditsch) tells Don Koch (WWE legend Phil “CM Punk” Brooks) of the Victorian mansion opposite her church that he is fixing up so that he and his pregnant wife Liz (Trieste Kelly Dunn) can start a family there. “Certain places have personalities, and sometimes they’re rotten.
Just when we thought there was nobody left to meet in the MCU, we get Captain Marvel, the origin story of a Kree warrior hero with strange memories of Earth that don’t make sense to her. As she finds herself back on her home planet, she must reconnect with the world she has forgotten and
When films open with establishing shots of a city, it’s normally to evoke a sense of place for a story that will, presumably, mostly take place there. When a horror opens this way, it can also be a way of setting up locations for third-act set-pieces. Zoo, written, directed, edited and scored by Antonio Tublen,
“The following presentation is derived from footage captured by the catastrophic reality TV pilot Extremely Haunted Hoarders,” reads text at the beginning of The Hoard, over a rapid – indeed, so rapid as to be near inscrutable – montage of monstrosity, mayhem and murder. It is not just a precise prelude of what is to
Zach Lipovsky and Adam B. Stein’s film opens to the distorted strains of ice cream truck music, as seven-year-old Chloe (Lexy Kolker) peeks out at Mr Snowcone’s blue-and-pink vehicle parked in the suburban street below. Ice cream is such a simple, tantalising pleasure, yet Chloe’s dad Henry (Emile Hirsch) pulls Chloe back from the window
The story goes that when a foundling child suddenly appeared on their farm, decent, warm-hearted Jonathan and Martha Kent adopted him as their own under the name Clark Kent and raised him with their homespun rural values before sending him out into the world. This legend casts its shadow over The Witch: Part 1 –
Taking place (mostly) in an isolated petrol station on the night that the Danish football team is playing in the finals of the European Championship, Finale sets itself up as a familiar – indeed timeless – tale of predatory victimisation. The station owner’s daughter Agnes (Anne Bergfeld) and disgruntled employee Belinda (Karin Michelsen) are working
“She wants to be let out,” says a soldier, drawn, as if by a whispering siren call, to the wooden chest that his troop is transporting across the border to destroy. They are intercepted by another squadron, and the bloody skirmish that ensues – in which that first soldier acts as if possessed, and fights
This fourth feature from Ron Carlson (All American Christmas Carol, Tom Cool, Midgets Vs. Mascots) opens with a before-and-after sequence: a young woman buys peyote from Native American Bigfoot (Michael Horse) and his diminutive sidekick Firecracker (Danny Woodburn), with a warning of ‘grave consequences’ should their client disrupt the local fauna; and then the same
Prepubescent Vivien (Sarah DaSilva) and Sophia (Lori Phun) reside on Level 10 of an authoritarian boarding school for girls, and dream of being chosen for adoption by a good family and seeing the sky for their first time. While helping Sophia pick up the jar of facial cream that she has dropped, Vivien commits a
Neo-feminist thriller Knives And Skin mashes genres into its small-town mystery By Katie Goh 25-02-19 945 Released: TBA Certificate: TBC Director: Jennifer Reeder Writer: Jennifer Reeder Cast: Grace Smith, Ireon Roach, Kayla Carter, Tim Hopper, Marika Engelhardt Distributor: TBC If you like this, try… Heathers The original tale of moody, teenage malaise is a classic
A haunting is going on in the remote, snow blanketed Quebec village of Irénée-les-Neiges. After a young man, Simon Dubé, dies by crashing his car into a concrete wall, mysterious incidents begin to manifest. There are eerie bumps and overhead footsteps in the night, while Simon’s mother, Gisèle (Deschênes), and brother, Jimmy (Naylor), are visited
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