Girlhood tells the coming-of-age tale of Marieme (Karidja Touré, below-right), a 16-year-old girl in a rough Parisian neighbourhood still trying to find where she belongs in the pecking order of life. In looking after her …
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Girlhood tells the coming-of-age tale of Marieme (Karidja Touré, below-right), a 16-year-old girl in a rough Parisian neighbourhood still trying to find where she belongs in the pecking order of life. In looking after her …
Continue readingZardoz stars Sean Connery as Zed. He understands that Zardoz says if you obey him then you’ll go to a vortex when you die and live forever. So, Zed’s dead? This is another of those …
Continue readingEaten Alive, directed by Tobe Hooper, is not to be confused with 1980’s horror movie of the same name, which was directed by Nightmare City‘s Umberto Lenzi that same year, even if the plot is …
Continue readingMississippi Burning is set in 1964, at a time when attitudes in the world were shamefully backwards in just how racist they were. It would be another year before Martin Luther King’s landmark walk in …
Continue readingMadman begins with tales around the summer camp campfire before bedtime on Halloween, the last one being told by Max (Carl Fredericks) about Madman Marz who quietly killed his family with an axe, was eventually …
Continue readingNightmare City – there are zombie films, and then there are zombies who have knives! And machetes! And axes! And those that just rip your face off. Although made in 1980, since a lot of …
Continue readingState of Grace stars Sean Penn as Terry Noonan, an undercover cop who’s tasked with sorting out what’s rotten in the state of New York, namely the nefarious doings of Frankie Flannery (Ed Harris) and …
Continue readingHitman Agent 47 is the second attempt at bringing the big baldy bastard with his big Ballers to the silver screen. The key to being a good hitman is to appear ‘invisible’. That is, to …
Continue readingColors begins with the text opener that there are 250 cops and sheriffs in Los Angeles to deal with 600 street gangs totalling 70,000 individuals. The police unit is known as C.R.A.S.H. – Cops Rallying …
Continue readingThe Falling leads with Game Of Thrones and Cyberbully star Maisie Williams as Lydia, a precocious young schoolgirl, whose rebellious character would, these days, be doing the cyberbullying. However, in this film there is yet …
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