June 26, 2016 Soulmate Although Neil Marshall has taken a step back from directing films in recent years – a great shame, as he is amongst our most talented filmmakers – he does occasionally dip his toe back into the industry, for instance by producing his wife Axelle Carolyn’s debut release Soulmate in 2013
May 9, 2016 Devil’s Tower Following in the wake of Tower Block, Heartless and Citadel, here’s another entry in the council flat horror sub-genre that has bubbled to life over the last five years or so.
March 18, 2016 Shame the Devil Shame the Devil is another release from the one man film production line that is Simon Phillips. For those of you unfamiliar with Mr. Phillips – and I find it hard to believe that there are some of you out there – he is a producer and writer who churns out roughly four or five low budget movies a year
January 24, 2016 Cargo Peter Mullen is, without a smidgen of doubt, one of the best actors working in Britain at the moment. You might not know then name, but you know who he is: think scary, think Scottish, think Mullan.
January 11, 2016 The Double There’s a thin line between the quirky and the deeply irritating. The Grand Budapest Hotel is quirky and it’s a very good film. And Richard Ayoade’s 2013 film The Double works too.
December 11, 2015 Metro Manila Every so often a low budget British film comes along which manages to confound expectations; they get decent reviews, but at the same time cricits hold back on their praise because these are not films made in the Mike Leigh / Ken Loach / retro kitchen sink tradition.
November 23, 2015 Hollow Trees. They don’t have a auspicious role in the history of horror do they. Sinister and creepy as they might be, on the big screen they don’t really seem, well, all that frightening.