Panic, written and directed by Sean Spencer, is a decent thriller with good performances that doesn’t leave much of an impression when all is said and done. Music journalist Andrew Deeley (David Gyasi) lives alone in a high-rise tower block. He’s cut himself off from the rest of the world and spends his nights watching […]
Released in 2002, 28 Days Later is one of the best British horror movies in the last 15 years and helped to revitalize the zombie sub-genre thanks to the efforts of Danny Boyle, Alex Garland and producer Andrew MacDonald – titans of the British film industry. Jim (Cillian Murphy) is a motorcycle courier who awakes from […]
If you go back to the 1954 Japanese epic historical drama Seven Samurai, directed by the legendary and incomparable Akira Kurosawa, it isn’t too difficult to understand that the film will focus on well, seven samurai. However, when you begin to look a bit deeper, you grow to understand that the rewards of the story […]
Fist Fight Fist Fight, directed by Richie Keen from a script by Evan Susser and Van Robichaux, stars Ice Cube and Charlie Day as two teachers that are set to have a, well, fist fight. One is meek, the other is tough and imposing – you have zero guesses which is which. Although wouldn’t it […]
After a fantastic opening gala last night, the festival was in full flow today. The first complete day of the 24th annual Raindance Film Festival was ‘China Day’, featuring Hong Kong heist movie Three, unconventional romance My Heart Leaps Up, and Flower, a beautiful film about a mother and son. These contributions by Chinese directors […]
1957’s Paths of Glory, one of Stanley Kubrick’s earliest feature-length movies, is a harrowing, grim masterpiece that has received a new Blu-Ray edition as part of Eureka Entertainment’s The Masters of Cinema series. Kirk Douglas stars as Colonel Dax, the commanding officer of a group of French soldiers during World War I that have been […]
Following on the heals of The Secret Life of Pets and Pete’s Dragon, it is exciting to see families having so many options to choose. Storks provides a fresh concept and a great cast to make it a contender and the potential celluloid champion this season. It does have the potential to give birth to […]
