• Locking down the Insidious key to success… (DVD)

    New Mexico, 1953, and a young Elise Rainier must cope with her ability to see the undead with the regular punishments her abusive father dishes out for each ‘transgression’. When Elise’s mother is killed by something lurking below the house, the family bonds become even more strained and as...
  • Game On: Spielberg’s latest is ‘Ready’: Willing and able…

    It’s Ohio, 2045, though geography and time probably have little of importance as most people are focussed on the virtual-reality of the Oasis, a global network that offers an alternative to their often humdrum existence. Why go to a boring desk job if you can journey to any landscape,...
  • Sorkin’s ‘Molly’ hedges its bets… (DVD)

    In the middle of the night Molly Bloom (Jessica Chastain) gets a phone-call that will change her life. It’s the FBI, they are outside her door, armed and they have a warrant for her arrest. Molly, once a ski-champion with realistic Olympic dreams, found her life going off on...
  • Less than Zerø: ‘Snowman’ gets frosty reception…

    Oslo police detective Harry Hole (Michael Fassbender) wakes up in a cold park on the edge of the city after a bender of week-long proportions. Arriving at work, his superior notes that this downward spiral can’t continue or be covered up much longer. Harry needs to get his act...
  • Cloverfield: Event (Horizon) TV gets Super-Bowled over…

    High above the Earth a space-station valiantly tries to get its energy-source and particle beam working, hoping that it will put an end to the geo-political tensions on the planet below. Time after time, those efforts fail and the crew, still in space after two years of what was...
  • New York, Old Tricks? The Alienist’s state of mind…

    When a young child’s body is found on New York’s Williamsburg Bridge circa late 1800s,  it’s clear that a heinous murder has taken place. The boy, dressed as a girl and thought to be one of the young prostitutes at a local brothel and has been found with his...
  • Sum of its ‘Counterpart’ – a superior twin dilemma…

    Howard Silk ( J K Simmons) is a lowly information-shuffler in an anonymous UN governmental building in an oppressive European regime in a world that’s like our own but greyer, hollower and ruled by the kind of remits that would make George Orwell get a paper-cut.  Each day he...
  • The Coulrophobia* of Money. Why ‘IT’ was a hit…

    1986: Young Georgie Denbrough is not the first child to go missing in the township of Derry, Maine… nor will be be the last. However, in a community scarred by the loss of some of their young, it is ironically a group of loners who start to feel the...
  • A Brine Romance: ‘The Shape of Water’ is Amphabulous…

    Eliza Esposito (Sally Hawkins) lives a lonely life – dividing her time between her apartment above an old movie theater, doughnut breaks with neighbour Giles (Richard Jenkins) and her lowly job as a cleaner at a research facility hidden deep beneath Baltimore. She’s almost reconciled to the fact that...
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