Dheepan, 2015. Directed by Jacques Audiard. Starring Faouzi Bensaidi, Jesuthasan Antonythasan, Kalieaswari Srinivasan, Vincent Rottiers, Claudine Vinasithamby and Marc Zinga. SYNOPSIS: Three Sri Lankan refugees come together to forge a fake a family to flee from the conflict and emigrate to a banlieue in France, where they begin to etch out a living against such […]
Movie Review – Suicide Squad (2016)
Suicide Squad, 2016. Directed by David Ayer. Starring Will Smith, Jared Leto, Margot Robbie, Jai Courtney, Joel Kinnaman, Viola Davis, Cara Delevingne, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Jay Hernandez, Adam Beach, Jim Parrack, Ben Affleck, Karen Fukuhara, Common, Ike Barinholtz and Scott Eastwood. SYNOPSIS: A group of highly dangerous super-villains are forced to carry out secret missions for […]
Movie Review – Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates (2016)
Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates, 2016. Directed by Jake Szymanski. Starring Zac Efron, Adam Devine, Anna Kendrick, Aubrey Plaza and Sugar Lyn Beard. SYNOPSIS: Two brothers use the internet to find “good girls” to take to their sister’s wedding in Hawaii and are tricked into taking girls who party even harder than themselves. I’ll […]
DVD Review – Southbound (2015)
Southbound, 2015. Directed by Roxanne Benjamin, David Bruckner, Patrick Horvath and Radio Silence. Starring Chad Villella, Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, Kristina Pesic, Dana Gould, Zoe Cooper and David Yow. SYNOPSIS: An anthology of five interlocking stories that centre on different groups of people journeying on a desolate stretch of desert highway. Despite the promise of the V/H/S […]
Scream: The TV Series Season 2 Episode 10 Review – ‘The Vanishing’
Martin Carr reviews the tenth episode of Scream: The TV Series season 2… This week we are treated to references outside the horror genre, which for someone like me who has instant recall is a whole barrel of fun. Aside from the tagline we get direct and indirect hat tipping for Dirty Harry, Buried and […]
Preacher Season 1 Episode 10 Review – ‘Call and Response’
Martin Carr reviews the season one finale of Preacher… Interrogation scenes are nasty. Half the time any punishment metered out is never seen only heard, because to be effective an audience imagination remains essential. Let me remind the men of Casino Royale when Craig is tied to that chair and his man parts are discreetly […]
Scream: The TV Series Season 2 Episode 9 Review – ‘The Orphanage’
Martin Carr reviews the ninth episode of Scream: The TV Series season 2… Over the course of ‘The Orphanage’ there is some serious film referencing beyond that obvious tagline, which includes the eponymous Phantasm series and B-movie mainstay April Fool’s Day. This of course remains the charm of a series for anyone who ever loved […]
Preacher Season 1 Episode 9 Review – ‘Finish The Song’
Martin Carr reviews the ninth episode of Preacher… Preacher will become a landmark series. People will look back at this ‘R’ rated piece of ephemera in years to come and remember what was done here. As an example of everything being done right there are few comparisons which readily spring to mind. Only Breaking Bad […]
Wayward Pines Season 2 Episode 10 Review – ‘Bedtime Story’
Martin Carr reviews the season two finale of Wayward Pines… The pigeons have come home to roost in a season finale which delivers where others have failed. Theological discussions about humanity, a person’s right for free choice and self-sacrifice fly around amongst emotional recriminations. With the inevitable threads beginning to unravel Patric finally steps up […]
Movie Review – Sid and Nancy – 30th Anniversary Restoration
Sid and Nancy, 1986. Directed by Alex Cox. Starring Gary Oldman, Chloe Webb, David Hayman, Debby Bishop, Andrew Schofield, Courtney Love, Perry Benson and Tony London. SYNOPSIS: The film follows the turbulent relationship between Sid Vicious (Gary Oldman) and his girlfriend Nancy Spungen (Chloe Webb), following their love affair from their first encounters on the […]
