24 Aug 2015
The often bitterly funny modern musical by Jason Robert Brown is here adapted for the screen and directed by Richard LaGravenese, and while the low budget and…
24 Aug 2015
Director/producer/co-star Charles B. Pierce’s evocatively-titled ‘regional’ horror movie from 1976 is constructed as a rather awkward docudrama, a recreation –…
27 July 2015
Director Megan Griffiths’ wry, under-the-radar character study is built upon lovely performances from Toni Collette and Thomas Haden Church as one of those…
27 July 2015
Time travel movies are always pretty silly, but feature début director Dean Israelite’s epic is enjoyably silly, with appealing leads, some nice gags (“Who’s…
23 Mar 2015
Director/script-adaptor/co-editor/co-star John Johnson’s rethinking of Edward D. Wood Jr.’s infamous ‘Worst Movie Of All Time’ isn’t a remake or straight parody…
23 Mar 2015
Filmed in ‘Yowiescope’ (???) and dedicated to late great monster-maker Ray Harryhausen, writer/director/producer Travis Bain’s at times winningly goofy pic has…
16 Oct 2014
You might assume that any TV show that had been going for that many years would have long ago lost its bite, punch and point (and we are looking at you…
30 Sept 2014
Coinciding nicely with the 60th anniversary of the original Godzilla (or actually Gojira ), director Gareth ( Monsters ) Edwards’ new take on the ‘King Of The…
2 July 2014
Creator Nic Pizzolatto’s HBO series supposedly “broke the internet”, and proved one of the most passionately argued-over programs in recent television history…
19 May 2014
Writer/director Sally Potter’s follow-up to the flawed Yes and the underappreciated Rage is a fairly straight character piece with a fine cast and rather less…
19 May 2014
Writer/director Laurie Collyer’s low-budget drama features a cool cast and moving playing, and yet the lingering mood of quiet desperation makes it slightly…
14 May 2014
Producer/director Spike Lee’s most ostensibly commercial movie since his Inside Man (and his first remake) is an Americanised version of Korean filmmaker…