Sightseers, 2012. Directed by Ben Wheatley.Written By and Starring Steve Oram and Alice Lowe. SYNOPSIS: A couple set out on a dream journey across the British isles in a caravan, but it doesn’t take long for the dream to fade. When I watched Ben Wheatley’s second feature film Kill List, I couldn’t help but recall […]

Jack the Giant Slayer, 2013. Directed by Bryan Singer.Starring Nicholas Hoult, Eleanor Tomlinson, Ewan McGregor, Stanley Tucci, Eddie Marsan, Ewen Bremner and Ian McShane. SYNOPSIS: The ancient war between humans and a race of giants is reignited when Jack, a young farmhand fighting for a kingdom and the love of a princess, opens a gateway between […]

Compliance, 2012. Written and Directed by Craig Zobel.Starring Ann Dowd, Dreama Walker, Pay Healy, Philip Ettinger, Bill Camp, James McCaffrey and Ashlie Atkinson. SYNOPSIS: When a prank caller convinces a fast food restaurant manager to interrogate an innocent young employee, no-one is left unharmed. Compliance stars Ann Dowd (Side Effects) as Sandra, a fast food manager […]

It’s Such a Beautiful Day, 2012. Directed and Narrated by Don Hertzfeldt. SYNOPSIS: Everyman Bill struggles to piece together his shattered psyche. If you were to draw the most rudimentary representation of yourself possible then chances are you would draw a simple stick figure. If you were then tasked with drawing another figure, one which […]

Dracula (a.k.a. Horror of Dracula), 1958. Directed by Terence Fisher.Starring Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Michael Gough, Melissa Stribling, John Van Eyssen and Carol Marsh. SYNOPSIS: After the death of his friend Jonathan Harker at the hands Dracula, Dr. Van Helsing pursues the evil Count to London, where the vampire intends to make Harker’s fiancée Lucy […]

247°F, 2011. Directed by Levan Bakhia and Beqa Jguburia.Starring Scout Taylor-Compton, Christina Ulloa, Travis Van Winkle, Michael Copon and Tyler Mane. SYNOPSIS: A bunch of vacationing twenty-something’s get locked in a sauna. Trapped, scared and facing soaring temperatures, will they survive? I got a DVD through the post last week, alongside a press release I […]

The Bay, 2012. Directed by Barry Levinson.Starring Will Rogers, Kristen Connolly, Kether Donohue, Stephen Nunken, Frank Deal, Christopher Denham and Nansi Aluka. SYNOPSIS: Chaos breaks out in the small seaside town of Chesapeake Bay when a deadly plague is unleashed, turning the residents into hosts for a mutant breed of parasites. If you’ve watched the Paranormal […]

End of Watch, 2012. Directed by David Ayer.Starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Michael Pena, Natalie Martinez, Anna Kendrick, David Harbour, Frank Grillo, Maurice Compte and America Ferrera. SYNOPSIS: A pair of Los Angeles cops uncover the workings of a human-trafficking operation and attract the untoward attention of a Mexican Cartel. The police get a hard time in […]

Fun Size, 2012. Directed by Josh Schwartz. Starring Victoria Justice, Jane Levy, Thomas McDonell, Thomas Mann, Osric Chau, Chelsea Handler, Thomas Middleditch, Jackson Nicoll, Josh Pence and Johnny Knoxville. SYNOPSIS: Wren’s Halloween plans go awry when she’s made to babysit her brother, who disappears into a sea of trick-or-treaters. With her best friend and two […]

The Place Beyond the Pines, 2012. Directed by Derek Cianfrance.Starring Ryan Gosling, Bradley Cooper, Eva Mendes, Rose Byrne, Dane DeHaan, Ray Liotta, Bruce Greenwood and Ben Mendelsohn. SYNOPSIS: A motorcycle stunt rider turns to robbing banks as a way to provide for his lover and their newborn child, a decision that puts him on a […]