A young woman starts a job as a night-shift custodian at the High Hopes Psychiatric Hospital. The ward she is to look after houses murderers, sadists and cannibals. But it's the seemingly supernatural activities that alarm her the most and cause her to look into the history of the hospital. It's a cool premise but, …
Continue reading Amityville Reviewed- Day 11- The Amityville Asylum (2013)
This cheapo Amityville franchise entry tries to bring the delights of the ‘found footage’ genre to the series. Sounds like it could be an interesting angle, right? Wrong! This, unfortunately (and I did want it to work), doesn’t work on any level except if you’re suffering from insomnia and want the celluloid equivalent of a …
Continue reading Amityville Reviewed- Day 10- The Amityville Haunting (2011)
So, the day has finally arrived. Fanboys have been counting down to this release since the start of the year. Yes, even though the film was due to drop in October. This film is a direct sequel to the first film, the filmmakers told us. We must pretend Parts 2-8 didn't happen. So, what's it …
Continue reading Halloween Reviewed- Day 11- Halloween (2018)
Marieme is an African-French tennager living in a poor neighbourhood in Paris. As her mother works long hours she has plenty of responsibilities within her household where her older and very strict brother takes the unofficial mantle of head of whilst their mother isn't present. Marieme's academic career has been affected adversely because of her …
A new political party called The New Founding Fathers of America (the clue is in the name) comes into power after the U.S. goes through a depression in their economy. Very soon they find that the country is back on an upward trajectory with the economy improving and unemployment hitting an all time low. Crime …
I first discovered the documentary Who Took Johnny from Artforum magazine when John Waters named it as one of his Films of the Year for 2014. I found the trailer for it on YouTube and it REALLY freaked me out. Johnny Gosch was a 14 year old boy who went missing whilst delivering newspapers in …
...Cats! OK, just kidding. 2019 has been a great year for films and trying to pick my favourite movie has been very hard. Whether it was the utterly engrossing Shockingly Wicked, Evil and Vile and it's captivating central performance by Zac Efron as Ted Bundy, the dark heart of Joker which held up a mirror …
'I heard you paint houses' Martin Scorsese's latest film centres around Frank Sheeran who we first see in a care home for the elderly reminiscing about his life. He recalls his time in World War 2 and then after this lovingly remembers the scam he had when he is working as a meat truck delivery …
I read Stephen King's sequel to The Shining and thoroughly enjoyed it when it was first published. I was eager to see the film adaptation and if it was as satisfying as the book. It's always a brave move to write a sequel to a well known book that is now considered to be a classic …
I battled to get to my cinema to see Kanye West's new film Jesus is King through bitter winds and freezing temperatures. I got to the cinema somewhat dishevelled but in one piece. This film was the perfect antidote to this. A gorgeous and very uplifting preview of Kanye's new gospel flavoured album that was …
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