Tuesday, 1 April 2025

NEW WAVE OF THE BRITISH FANTASTIC FILM 2021 #22: Reviews of Daytime Nightmare (UK 2020), Expiry (UK 2021), Manhunt: Kill or Be Killed (UK 2021), The Censor (UK 2021), Deadly Nightshade (UK 2021) and Shunner (UK 2021)

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Daytime Nightmare (UK 2020: Dir Katrina Grey) Grey plays Lucy, a teacher (although we never see her in that profession) who has aspirations...
Monday, 31 March 2025

Screamboat (USA 2025: Dir Steven LaMorte)

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The Staten Island ferry is a New York institution dating back to the 1920s, connecting the island to Manhattan. As a free service it's u...
Friday, 21 March 2025

NEW WAVE OF THE BRITISH FANTASTIC FILM 2021 #21 SCI FI SPECIAL! Reviews of Star Warrior: The Legend of Aciris (UK 2021), Creatures (UK 2021), Phase (UK 2021), Settlers (UK/South Africa 2021), White Sky (UK 2021) and How to Survive the End of the World (UK 2021)

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Star Warrior: The Legend of Aciris (UK 2021: Dir Mark Dowie) In a 2020 podcast Gateshead based director Dowie listed the two actors he'...
Monday, 17 March 2025

Time Travel is Dangerous! (UK 2024: Dir Chris Reading)

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Reading's first feature was the ambitious 2017 movie sci-fi adventure Somnus ; eight years later he's returned to the genre with som...
Monday, 10 March 2025

New Films Round Up #15: Reviews of From the Shadows (USA 2022), The North Witch (USA 2024), The Baby in the Basket (UK 2025), Heretics (USA 2024), Its Name Was Mormo (Cyprus 2024) and The Hangman (USA 2024)

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It's been five years since I last did one of these new film round up things, and I'm grateful to the kind folks at High Fliers films...
Friday, 7 March 2025

The Rule of Jenny Pen (New Zealand 2024: Dir James Ashcroft)

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Ashcroft's debut feature, 2021's visceral Coming Home in the Dark was a bleak thriller rooted in abuse within a boys' reform sc...
Monday, 24 February 2025

Die Alone (Canada/USA 2024: Dir Lowell Dean)

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The recent worldwide pandemic has provided filmmakers with an abundance of inspiration, from lockdown anxiety movies (2022's Alone Toget...