Out Now. Sony Pictures. Certificate: 15. M. Night Shyamalan had aquaphobic aliens come to a planet covered with over 70% of water in Signs: here we have alcohol intolerant ETs touching down in Ireland.
Out Now. Renown Pictures. Certificate: PG. The great Tod Slaughter stars in this grim, moody re-telling of the Burke and Hare story, which was shot using the real names of the infamous Scottish grave-robbers, then overdubbed with Burke becoming Hart…
It’s not easy being a writer who works from home, because it seems there’s always something better to do than sit at my computer banging out priceless prose like this. Watching movies, for example, or taking the dogs for a…
Out: March 18th. Lionsgate. Certificate: 12. The news that Hammer’s classic 1958 version of Dracula was being issued by Lionsgate was greeted with some trepidation by fans after their Curse of Frankenstein restoration turned out to be so visually disappointing.…
Out Now. Momentum Pictures. Certificate: 15. Peeping Toms hounding every step, desperate to capture their victims and make them grotesque. Transformations from mild manner to monstrous tantrum at the full flash of a bulb. Celebrity culture is its own form…
Out Now. Momentum. Certificate: 15. What is it about residences on the margins of communities? House On The Edge Of The Park, Last House On The Left: buildings decorated with trauma, violent reprisals cushioned within their walls and hidden away…
Out Now. Momentum Pictures. Certificate: 15. ‘Hanging Around’. ‘Summer Barbecue’. ‘Pool Party’. Captions scrawled onto canisters of Super 8, home movies found in an attic. They are all named as if Beach Boys songs, extolling the virtues of outdoor leisure…
Out Now. Matchbox Films Certificate: 15 Are you an organ donor? Only asking because there are over 200 deaths annually in the Netherlands due to a lack of donation. Apparently. So if anyone’s got a spare kidney or bowel they…
Out Now. Kaleidoscope. Certificate: 18. “Fuck me, clown!” To be taken depending on whether you’re a coulorophobe or coulorophile, a clown-hater or lover respectively. Here, it’s probably the latter, as a lass is taken roughly from behind by one Richard…
Out Now. Momentum Pictures. Certificate: 18 When I was an undergraduate some ten years ago, Friday night was all about rootling. This is not some euphemism for date-rape or other libidinous activity, but rather a trawl through the basement of…
Part of Tony Scott’s legacy after his tragic suicide is the first English language film to be made by Park Chan-Wook director of Lady Vengeance and the soon to be remade Oldboy. Produced through Scott Free productions it tells the…
Out Now. VCI Certificate: N Another trash movie DVD double from VCI. The Slime People is a cheap but atmospheric Twilight Zone-type chiller in which lumpy lizard creatures emerge from the sewers to take over the city of Los Angeles.…