Martin Carr reviews the seventh episode of Marvel’s Helstrom… This family get off on hurting each other with impunity. Words as weapons sharper than knives penetrate the psyche of these siblings, who are never happier than when they are tearing strips off each other. Friction, confrontation and ritualistic torture are rife in an episode which […]
October Horrors 2020 – Magic (1978)
Magic, 1978. Directed by Richard Attenborough. Starring Anthony Hopkins, Ann Margeret, Burgess Meredith, Ed Lauter and David Ogden Stiers. SYNOPSIS: Failed stage magician Corky finds success after adding Fats, a foul mouth mouthed ventriloquist dummy, to his act. However, as his fame grows, Corky’s already fragile mental state begins to deteriorate, with Fats seeming to […]
Movie Review – Borat Subsequent Moviefilm (2020)
Borat Subsequent Moviefilm, 2020. Directed by Jacob Woliner. Starring Sacha Baron Cohen and Maria Bakalova. SYNOPSIS: Follow-up film to the 2006 comedy centering on the real-life adventures of a fictional Kazakh television journalist named Borat. Sacha Baron Cohen’s filmed-in-secret Borat sequel, Borat Subsequent Moviefilm, is faced with over-the-odds challenges compared to your average belated comedy. Cohen […]
Movie Review – Summer of 85 (2020)
Summer of 85, 2020. Directed by François Ozon. Starring Félix Lefebvre, Benjamin Voisin, Philippine Velge, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Melvil Poupaud, and Isabelle Nanty. SYNOPSIS: In a small, seaside town on the Normandy coast, two teenage boys embark on a sun-soaked six weeks of friendship and romance. But tragedy ultimately brings it all crashing down. Like […]
Movie Review – Carol (2015)
Carol, 2015. Directed by Todd Haynes. Starring Cate Blanchett, Rooney Mara, Sarah Paulson, Jake Lacy, John Magaro and Kyle Chandler. SYNOPSIS: Set in 1950s New York, a department-store clerk who dreams of a better life falls for an older, married woman. Love is the most powerful force in the universe. Unfortunately, it took us until […]
Movie Review – The Witches (2020)
The Witches, 2020. Directed by Robert Zemeckis. Starring Anne Hathaway, Octavia Spencer, Stanley Tucci, Kristin Chenoweth, Chris Rock, Jahzir Bruno and Codie-Lei Eastick. SYNOPSIS: After the loss of his parents in a car accident a young boy (Jahzir Bruno) gets taken in by his Grandma (Octavia Spencer). Slowly she starts to help him deal with […]
Netflix Review – The Queen’s Gambit
Martin Carr reviews The Queen’s Gambit… On paper this story of a chess playing prodigy in Sixties America might not sound like the stuff of drama. A tired and oft repeated rages to riches tale which screams period piece, promises protracted stretches of ponderous cliché and will have audiences switching off after ten minutes. However […]
Movie Review – The Hummingbird Project (2019)
The Hummingbird Project, 2019. Written and Directed by Kim Nguyen. Starring Jesse Eisenberg, Alexander Skarsgård, Salma Hayek, Michael Mando, Johan Heldenbergh, Ayisha Issa, Mark Slacke, Sarah Goldberg, and Frank Schorpion. SYNOPSIS: A pair of high-frequency traders go up against their old boss in an effort to make millions in a fiber-optic cable deal. It would […]
Movie Review – The Secret Garden (2020)
The Secret Garden, 2020. Directed by Marc Munden. Starring Dixie Egerickx, Julie Walters, Isis Davis, Amir Wilson, Edan Hayhurst, Richard Hansell, Jemma Powell, and Colin Firth. SYNOPSIS: When precocious 10-year old Mary (Dixie Egerickx) is orphaned after the sudden death of her wealthy parents, she is sent to live with her uncle (Colin Firth) and […]
October Horrors 2020 – Hour of the Wolf (1968)
Hour of the Wolf, 1968. Directed by Ingmar Bergman. Starring Max Von Sydow, Liv Ullmann, Gertrud Fridh, George Rydeberg, Erland Josephson and Ingrid Thulin. SYNOPSIS: An artist and his pregnant wife retreat to their home on a small island, where he starts to suffer strange and increasingly vivid nightmares connected to his past and to […]
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