Censor, 2021. Directed by Prano Bailey-Bond. Starring Niamh Algar, Nicholas Burns, Vincent Franklin, Sophia La Porta, Adrian Schiller, Michael Smiley, Erin Shanagher, Andrew Havill, Felicity Montagu, Danny Lee Wynter, Clare Perkins, Guillaume Delaunay, Richard Glover, Beau Gadsdon, and Amelie Child Villiers. SYNOPSIS: After viewing a strangely familiar video nasty, Enid, a film censor, sets out […]
First trailer for Gunpowder Milkshake starring Karen Gillan and Lena Headey
The first trailer has debuted for director Navot Papushado’s female-driven action thriller Gunpowder Milkshake which stars Karen Gillan as a fierce hitwoman, who with the help of her lethal associates and her estranged mother (Lena Headey), fights for her own survival and protects the life of an 8-year-old girl after a high risk job goes […]
2021 Glasgow Film Festival Review – The Toll
The Toll, 2021. Directed by Ryan Andrew Hooper Starring Michael Smiley, Annes Elwy, Iwan Rheon, Dewi Morris, Evelyn Mok, Steve Oram, and Julian Glover. SYNOPSIS: After a chance encounter with an old enemy, a toll booth operator and master criminal awaits a violent fate approaching his quiet, rural Welsh post. At what point does homage […]
2021 Sundance Film Festival Review – Censor
Censor, 2021. Co-written and directed by Prano Bailey-Bond. Starring Niamh Algar, Nicholas Burns, Vincent Franklin, Sophia La Porta, Adrian Schiller, and Michael Smiley. SYNOPSIS: After viewing a strangely familiar video nasty, Enid, a film censor, sets out to solve the past mystery of her sister’s disappearance, embarking on a quest that dissolves the line between fiction […]
Censor Never Reaches Its Full Horror Potential | Sundance 2021 Video Review
Censor, 2021. Directed by Prano Bailey-Bond. Starring Niamh Algar, Nicholas Burns, Vincent Franklin, Sophia La Porta, Adrian Schiller, Michael Smiley, Clare Holman, Andrew Havill, Felicity Montagu, Danny Lee Wynter, Clare Perkins, Guillaume Delaunay, Richard Glover, Beau Gadsdon, Amelie Child-Villiers. You may call me a bit sick for this, but I expected more “nasty” out of […]
Movie Review – Come to Daddy (2020)
Come to Daddy, 2020. Directed by Ant Timpson. Starring Elijah Wood, Stephen McHattie, Ona Grauer, Garfield Wilson, Simon Chin, Madeleine Sami, Martin Donovan, and Michael Smiley. SYNOPSIS: Norval Greenwood, a privileged man-child arrives at the beautiful and remote coastal cabin of his estranged father. He quickly discovers that not only is dad a jerk, but […]
Movie Review – Come to Daddy (2020)
Come to Daddy, 2020. Directed by Ant Timpson. Starring Elijah Wood, Stephen McHattie, Ona Grauer, Garfield Wilson, Simon Chin, Madeleine Sami, Martin Donovan, and Michael Smiley. SYNOPSIS: A man in his thirties travels to a remote cabin to reconnect with his estranged father. Opening with a pair of juxtaposed quotes from William Shakespeare and Beyoncé […]
A mustachioed Elijah Wood stars in trailer for Come to Daddy
Ahead of its release this February, a poster and trailer have arrived online for director Ant Timpson’s dark comedy thriller Come to Daddy which stars Elijah Wood as a man who receives a cryptic invitation to visit his estranged father in a remote cabin; check them out here… Norval Greenwood, a privileged man-child arrives at […]
Arrow Video Frightfest 2019 Review – Come to Daddy
Come to Daddy, 2019. Directed by Ant Timpson. Starring Elijah Wood, Stephen McHattie, Martin Donovan and Michael Smiley. SYNOPSIS: A man in his thirties travels to a remote cabin to reconnect with his estranged father. This year’s Frightfest begins as it means to go on with an intriguingly demented, expectation-shifting blackly comic thriller from first-time […]
Movie Review – Jawbone (2017)
Jawbone, 2017. Directed by Thomas Napper. Starring Johnny Harris, Ian McShane, Ray Winstone, Michael Smiley. SYNOPSIS: Boxer Jimmy McCabe (Johnny Harris) has hit rock bottom. A former youth boxing champion he agrees to an unlicensed fight up north, much to the disapproval of former friends Bill (Ray Winstone) and Eddie (Michael Smiley). When he begins […]
