Movies
Reviews of films available on Netflix UK, Amazon Prime and other video on-demand services.
VOD film review: The Art of Self-Defense
September 1, 2021 | David Farnor
Riley Stearns’ darkly comic satire of toxic masculinity doesn’t pull its punches.Read More
FrightFest 2021 film review: Mystery Spot
August 30, 2021 | Anton Bitel
Mel House’s mystery mixes a motel, mourning and metempsychosis, as lost souls check in to audition for the afterlife.Read More
Netflix UK film review: He’s All That
August 30, 2021 | Jo Bromilow
This sweetly silly remake of She’s All That will find new young fans and raise a wry smile in old ones.Read More
FrightFest 2021 film review: Bring Out the Fear
August 29, 2021 | Anton Bitel
A couple gets lost in the woods of their toxic relationship in this creepily disorienting drama.Read More
The Father review: Anthony Hopkins gives a career-best performance
August 29, 2021 | David Farnor
Anthony Hopkins delivers a career-best performance in this simply devastating drama.Read More
FrightFest 2021 film review: Are We Monsters
August 28, 2021 | Anton Bitel
Seb Cox’s visually striking werewolf fairytale offers mannered, mythomanic rites of passage.Read More
FrightFest 2021 film review: Dawn Breaks Behind the Eyes
August 28, 2021 | Anton Bitel
Kevin Kopacka’s 60s-style gothic freakout stages and restages a treacherous trap of patriarchy in a retro-furnished castle.
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Freaky review: Hugely entertaining horror-comedy
August 28, 2021 | David Farnor
Vince Vaughn and Kathryn Newton are hugely entertaining in this inspired body-swap horror-comedy.Read More
FrightFest 2021 film review: Shadow of the Cat
August 27, 2021 | Anton Bitel
In José María Cicala’s tale of two families, an adolescent girl returns to her long lost mother’s clan, only to find cult and confusion.Read More
FrightFest 2021 film review Crabs! (2021)
August 27, 2021 | Anton Bitel
Pierce Berolzheimer’s knowing feature debut is a mad, monstrous B-movie throwback pitting man (and mecha) against a marine menace.Read More
