‘The New Mutants’ Review: A Better or Bitter End for the X-men?
Is this the end of the X-men? Quite possibly! 20th Century Fox have been making X-men movies for exactly 20 years. Now the mouse house...
Author: Paul Salt
Frightfest 2020 Short Horror Showcase 2 Review: Folk Car Rituals, Drooling Zombies and Spiritual Paperwork
Werewolf (dir. Markus Meedt) A group of friends assemble to play the secret identity game; werewolf. But the game seems to be becoming reality. This...
Frightfest 2020 Short Horror Showcase 1 Review: Gruesome Shorts for ‘orrible Girls and Boys!
Bark (dir. Ryan Irving) A tree in a park witnesses people enjoying bushes, dogs and some slasher movie antics. It’s a comedy film in which...
‘Tenet’ Review: Will you want to understand it?
A CIA agent (John David Washington) undertakes a dangerous mission to uncover the truth behind a terrifying technology that threatens the existence of the human...
The Scottish Film – Ep #20 – Macbeth (2018)
We did it! We reviewed every cinematic adaptation we could reasonably get our hands on without influence over time or the Thai authorities. We finish...
The Scottish Film – Ep #19 – Veeram (2016)
When you take Shakespeare’s timeless tragedy and a North Indian folk tale and mix them all together in three languages at once and look at...
‘Proxima’ Review: To the Stars and Away from Home
It’s only a minor spoiler to reveal that Alice Winocour’s new film ends with the launch of a space shuttle. Early on it becomes clear...
The Scottish Film – Ep #18 – Macbeth (2015)
Paul and Katy fail to find a banned Thai film and so have to settle for perhaps the greatest cinematic adaptation ever made! A film...
‘True History of the Kelly Gang’ Review: The Punk Rock History of an Outlaw
Justin Kurzel has an eye for terrible beauty. The desolation of this film’s 19th century Victoria is fanciful gorgeous. Bright lights strike tall shadows across...
The Scottish Film – Ep #17 – Macbeth (2010)
Patrick Stewart is here with all his Shakespearean bombast! An adaptation of Sound and Fury and bleak 60s cold war era dystopia. Can Paul and...