‘Robin Hood’ Review: Prince of Heaves
After surviving the crusades, Robin of Loxley (Taron Egerton) returns home to find he has been stripped of his home, his fortune and his Maid...
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‘Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald’ Review: If Everything Is Magic Then Nothing Is.
Evil wizard Gellert Grindelwald (Johnny Depp) escapes from magic prison and plots to take over the world by indoctrinating a powerful young boy named Credence Barebone....
‘Halloween (2018)’ Review: Fun But Conventional Slasher Thriller
Forty years after killing five people, Michael Myers escapes from the mental institution. Having survived the previous attack, Laurie Strode (Jaimie Lee Curtis) has been...
‘Peterloo’ Review: An Impassioned Cry Of Injustice
In the Summer of 1819, in the aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars and the French Revolution, a crowd of tens of thousands of people assembled...
Matthew Holness Interview: Possum, Horror and A Bit of Dark Place.
How did Possum come about? I was asked back in 2008 to write a story for an anthology called The New Uncanny, that was being...
‘They Shall Not Grow Old’ Review: Powerful Testiment To The Horrors Of The First World War
Interviews from survivors accompany actual footage of the First World War. The footage has been rendered in colour and audio has been added, including foley...
‘The Chambermaid’ Review: Claustrophobic Drama About Modern Servitude
Eve (Gabriella Cartol) is a chambermaid in a luxury hotel in Mexico city. We follow her routine and the interactions she has with the hotel...
‘Dogman’ Review: Everyone Has a Breaking Point In Matteo Garone’s Crime Fable
Marcello (Marcello Fonte) is the Dogman. He runs a small shop that offers veterinary and dog sitting services to the populace of his small coastal...
‘Shadow’ Review: Gorgeous Martial Arts Tragedy
Commander (Chao Deng) is loyal to the King of Pei. They are exiled and hope to reclaim their lost home country. However, the Commander is,...
‘If Beale Street Could Talk’ Review: Love And Fear In Barry Jenkin’s Heartfelt Drama
Tish (Kiki Layne) and Fonny (Stephen James) are a young black couple expecting the first child. Their future together is far from certain as Fonny...