Reviews

[Review] Fresh Meat

Fresh Meat takes several “-isms" and throws them into a hilarious blender. The film works as an uncompromisingly dark horror comedy with director Danny Mulheron...

[Review] 1st Night

1st Night is a classy screwball comedy, so gorgeously lensed and very British, we almost forget just how silly the material might be had the same premise been a...

[Review] Peeples

Here, finally, is a movie that would actually benefit from dropping the ‘Tyler Perry Presents’ tag that inevitably accompanies it. Nothing against Perry, who...

[Review] And Now a Word from Our Sponsor

Points for ingenuity to screenwriter Michael Hamilton-Wright for crafting a feature length script that makes sense around a character only speaking in commercia...

[Review] No One Lives

When the WWE logo appears at the start of Ryûhei Kitamura’s No One Lives, it feels out of place with the film’s horror movie expectations. After about an hour o...

[Review] Blackbird

Co-winner of the award for Best Canadian First Feature Film at the Toronto International Film Festival, Jason Buxton’s debut Blackbird peers into the sort of gu...

[Review] The Great Gatsby

Baz Luhrmann’s spectacle-drunk adaptation of The Great Gatsby is exactly what its pedigree and trailers have suggested; a big hot mess that indulges its directo...

[Review] Java Heat

It's taken director Conor Allyn five years and two movies to finally have the actioner Java Heat put him at the helm of a movie with English as its first langua...

[Review] Assault on Wall Street

Despite the appeal of rubbernecking at a car wreck, I have never seen an Uwe Boll film. Whether back when the infamous German tax break scheme was in effect on ...

[Review] Desperate Acts of Magic

Stage magicians have pulled a bit of a re-appearing act on cinema screens this year, with not one but four recent features focusing on ‘the third most mocked pr...