The Raid (a.k.a The Raid: Redemption), 2011. Written and Directed by Gareth Evans. Starring Iko Uwais, Ananda George, Yayan Ruhian, Doni Alamsyah, Joe Taslim and Ray Sahetapy. SYNOPSIS: An elite SWAT team raid a derelict apartment building occupied by a ruthless crime lord and his army of thugs, murderers and gangsters. The Raid is a […]

Piranha 3DD, 2012. Directed by John Gulager. Starring Danielle Panabaker, Ving Rhames, David Hasselhoff, Christopher Lloyd, David Koechner, Chris Zylka, Megan Tandy, Katrina Bowden, Matt Bush and Gary Busey. SYNOPSIS: After the events of the previous film, all seems to be well for a newly opened pool complex. But events conspire to trap everyone in […]

A Good Old Fashioned Orgy, 2011. Directed by Alex Gregory and Peter Huyck. Starring Jason Sudeikis, Leslie Bibb, Lake Bell, Michelle Borth, Nick Kroll, Tyler Labine, Lindsay Sloane, Lucy Punch, Will Forte and Don Johnson. SYNOPSIS: When his father announces that he’s selling his beach house, a thirty-something party animal famous for throwing lavish themed […]

Farewell to the King, 1989. Directed by John Milius. Starring Nick Nolte, Nigel Havers, Frank McRae and Gerry Lopez. SYNOPSIS: After escaping a Japanese firing squad during World War II, a renegade American soldier flees to Borneo where he is adopted by a local tribe and made their king. John Milius’ career in film has […]

The House on Sorority Row, 1983. Directed by Mark Rosman. Starring Eileen Davidson, Kate McNeil, and Lois Kelso Hunt. SYNOPSIS: A house on sorority row finds itself home to a series of murders after a prank goes terribly wrong. Much like Black Christmas (1974), this movie concerns itself with the fate of a group of […]

Phantasm, 1979. Directed by Don Coscarelli. Starring Bill Thornbury, A. Michael Baldwin, Angus Scrimm and Reggie Bannister. SYNOPSIS: A young boy suspects a local mortician as the cause of recent mysterious disappearances. As American horror cinema was on the cusp of becoming flooded with recycled slasher films, thanks largely to the success of Halloween (1978), […]

The Five-Year Engagement, 2012. Directed by Nicolas Stoller. Starring Jason Segel, Emily Blunt, Alison Brie and Chris Pratt. We made Bridesmaids. Remember Bridesmaids? You liked that, right? SYNOPSIS: Tom and Violet are engaged, but circumstance stalls actual marriage. Of all the Judd Apatow-influenced comedies – The 40-Year Old Virgin (Steve Carell), Knocked Up (Seth Rogen), […]

The Squad (a.k.a. El páramo), 2011. Directed Jaime Osorio Marquez. Starring Juan David Restrepo, Andrés Castañeda and Mateo Stevel. SYNOPSIS: A team of elite Colombian soldiers are sent to investigate a remote military outpost where they make a horrifying discovery. The survival horror has been a reliable go to for low budget cinema over the […]

Oliver Davis reviews the seventh episode of Game of Thrones Season Two… A Man Without Honor. Directed by David Nutter. Written by David Benioff and D.B. Weiss. Although not as good as last week’s episode, A Man Without Honor Honour is amongst the best of the series thus far. Nearly every other scene excels in […]

Luke Owen attends the ‘Summer Screens’ outdoor screening of the classic time-travel comedy Back to the Future… A couple of months ago a friend of mine posted up on his Facebook that he was attending an outdoor screening of one of my favourite movies of all time – Back to the Future. Intrigued, I looked […]