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British cinema of the past and present

Amy Comber in Low
November 14, 2016

Low

Low is a fairly good example of the recent micro-budgeted horror films which have recently been springing up in the UK. Good in that it exemplifies many of their strengths and failures, and good in that it’s one of the more interesting and better made of its type.

The Drummond Will
November 3, 2016

Drummond Will, The

The Drummond Will is a comedy thriller that taps into the ambiguous relationship that we have with the countryside in Britain, throwing in a little bit of the Coen Brothers and a large dash of Withnail and I for good measure.

Spooky goings on in Blackwood
October 16, 2016

Blackwood

Blackwood is the kind of tasteful, competent ghost story which would fit in comfortably with the assorted productions being made by the revived Hammer Films.

Dark Touch
October 11, 2016

Dark Touch

Dark Touch is a kind of ghost story which isn’t really a ghost story, a poltergeist movie with elements of Carrie thrown in for good luck.

Jemma Dallender, Joshua Dickinson, Nate Fallows in The Mirror
August 25, 2016

The Mirror

The 2014 film The Mirror is essentially a remake of From Beyond the Grave, a 1974 portmanteau film based on stories by R. Chetwynd-Hayes.

Planet of the Vamp... oh, whoops, it's The Last Days on Mars
August 18, 2016

The Last Days on Mars

A group of scientists are coming to the end of their term on Mars, wrapping up their work gathering samples and researching minerals. It’s a bad time, therefore, for Marko (Goran Kostic) to discover the fossilized evidence of bacterial life.

Boys with toys in The Devil's Playground
July 12, 2016

The Devil’s Playground

Craig Fairbrass plays a security consultant in the pay of one of those super-slick pharma companies who you just know are accidentally going to bring about the apocalypse, and so it proves

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