Three youths – Henri (Lucas Belvaux), Anne (Ann-Gisel Glass), and Yvan (Wadeck Stanczak) – attempt to burgle a music shop, only to accidentally kill its owner in a panic. Their theft was to find musical instruments to sustain their struggling … Continue reading REVIEW: Disorder (1986)
I have always been fascinated by Disney’s ‘dark’ period, which commenced with The Black Hole in 1979 and wound up with the catastrophic failure of The Black Cauldron in 1985. Disney has always leavened its family films with elements of … Continue reading REVIEW: Night Crossing (1982)
I come to praise John Candy – to mangle the famous phrase – not to bury him. This hugely talented Canadian comic actor has been dead a little over 26 years, and yet one can watch the landscape of American … Continue reading REVIEW: Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987)
University student “Tree” Gelbman (Jessica Rothe) wakes up from a drunken night partying only to find herself trapped in a time loop. The same things happen to her every day, and no matter what else she manages to change her … Continue reading REVIEW: Happy Death Day (2017)
US army mechanic Brian Murphy (Rob Freeman) wakes up on a beach in West Africa, having survived a plane crash. The country is in chaos. It is everyone for themselves – and the dead are walking the African wilderness. The … Continue reading REVIEW: The Dead (2010)
Selene (Kate Beckinsale) is a ‘death dealer’, a vampire assassin fighting in a vampire-versus-werewolf war that has lasted for many centuries. When she rescues ordinary human Michael Corvin (Scott Speedman) from werewolf (or ‘lycan’) attack, she grows to suspect that … Continue reading REVIEW: Underworld (2003)
When a woman named Sarah is killed in an accident, she leaves family and friends behind to grieve, including her distanced mother Mimi (Celia Imrie), best friend and business partner Isabella (Shelley Conn), and her daughter Clarissa (Shannon Tarbet). As … Continue reading REVIEW: Love Sarah (2020)
Wakatasuki, a young employee at an insurance firm, receives a telephone call from a woman asking if her life insurance policy covers her committing suicide. Concerned for her welfare, he rushes to her house only to stumble upon the dead … Continue reading REVIEW: Black House (1999)
Sarah (Eva Green) is a French astronaut in training for a lengthy stay aboard the International Space Station – a final test before a multi-national expedition lands humans on Mars. Accepting the mission – the dream of a lifetime – … Continue reading REVIEW: Proxima (2019)
In 1884 London the physician Frederick Treves (Anthony Hopkins) meets John Merrick (John Hurt), a severely deformed and apparently non-verbal young man living in a carnival show. Taking Merrick in to the hospital where we works, Treves starts on what … Continue reading REVIEW: The Elephant Man (1980)
