For It Is Man's Number

A Danish crime comedy that feels very much like a minor Coen brothers movie from early on in their filmography, this is a tale of unhappy sp...

Look, it's not the best reason to watch a movie, I admit it, but I had a very short amount of time before I was due to get ready for wor...

Burt Lancaster is a cinematic icon that I fear some find far too easy to forget. You can easily recall his powerful physique, which served h...

Although not at the very top of the film noir tree (which is like a normal tree but . . . extra shady), The Big Combo  is a dark and thrilli...

Roy (Joan Cusack), Lilly (Anjelica Huston), and Myra (Annette Bening) are three con artists, and they're working on different levels. Th...

Written and directed by Joanna Hogg, The Souvenir  is an interesting and intelligent look at the blinkers some people can so easily put on w...

I deliberately picked this one, that hadn't previously been on my radar, to show that there are SOME older titles tucked away on Netflix...

The main thing to take away from Nightmare Cinema  is this; if you're in a cinema and you find out that Mickey Rourke is smirking as he ...

Considering the many classic film noirs I have covered in my blog, I was surprised to realise that I had never praised Laura  here. Given my...

Here's the one thing that I know about the feature film career of Rob Zombie. I am one of the many voices making up part of the problem....

Despite my fear of them (fear, revulsion, general feeling of starting to itch, depending on what species is onscreen), I do occasionally lik...

Written by Grady Hendrix (arguably best known for his outstanding work on the wonderful Paperbacks From Hell book), Satanic Panic  is the f...

There are a number of words that can be used to describe Peeping Tom  (thrilling, disturbing, intriguing), but the most appropriate one is m...

Where to begin with Selfie From Hell ? How angry should I allow myself to get? It is a bad film. A very bad film indeed. I thought I would s...

It's always odd, but also oddly satisfying, when a film featuring some very alien designs, and ideas, ends up making a lot of interestin...

Although it absolutely perverts the essence of the characters that fans of the series have been invested in from the first movie, to varying...

And here we have it. I know that there is one more movie in the series, to date (that may be five more movies by the time you read this), bu...

Written and directed by Stephen Carpenter and Jeffrey Obrow, who had previously worked together to give slasher fans The Dorm That Dripped B...

Puppet Master X: Axis Rising  leads on immediately from the events of the last film. However, being directed by Charles Band, it is not conc...

A fairytale framed by dramatic elements, and punctuated by moments of vicious violence, Pan's Labyrinth  remains the very best thing fro...