Facebook Watch’s Sorry For Your Loss – Review
The user interface of Facebook’s new streaming platform made it fast and easy to become absolutely devastated by their first big budget script. Five stars. Everyone is making TV these days. Disney is making TV. Snapchat is making TV. Instagram is making TV. Amazon have been making TV for a...
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Mindhunter Season 2 – Review
Mindhunter season two has been out for almost a week now, and its return to the morbid world of killer criminology has established it amongst the finest crime dramas of the last decade. ~This article contains spoilers ~ True crime fans had been champing at the bit to binge the second season...
Midsommar – Review
Ari Aster’s Midsommar is arguably even more chilling than his critically acclaimed horror debut Hereditary. This is one bacchanal even this office wouldn’t want to attend. Ari Aster equally disturbed and delighted horror buffs last year with the release of Hereditary. Having been touted as a revolutionary horror classic in promotions and even equated...
Adam Sandler’s ‘Murder Mystery’ breaks Netflix records – Review
Nearly 31 million people tuned in to watch Adam Sandler’s latest release 'Murder Mystery'. It may be popular, but is it any good? It was about midway through Murder Mystery, starring Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston, that I realised why I was enjoying myself so much. A who-dun-it based on Agatha...
Netflix’s The Perfection – Review
WARNING: REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS Equally lazy as it is ridiculous, The Perfection becomes nonsensical in its second half, often reduced to unintentionally hilarious slashing, gore, and cheesy dialogue. It’s fun to watch at times, but in all the wrong ways. About halfway through The Perfection, Charlotte Willmore, talented cellist and musician, tells her lover...
Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile – Review
Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile provides an interesting synopsis of Ted Bundy’s time in captivity but shies away from exploring the difficult questions. On the surface it seems extremely flattering to cast Disney heartthrob Zac Efron in the role of a sadistic serial killer responsible for the deaths of over...
Pet Sematary – Review
Stephen King acolytes understandably have a soft spot for Mary Lambert’s original 1989 adaption of Pet Sematary, but sometimes remade is better. The master of the macabre Stephen King is having something of a late career renaissance, and Pet Sematary is the latest tale of terror to receive a thematically loaded, bone chilling revamp. Mary Lambert’s original rendition of King’s ninth novel was well received but failed to fully manifest the unshakable eeriness of...
Us – Review
Budding writer-director Jordan Peele has fallen short of the lofty heights set by his debut foray into horror with latest creation Us. In 2017, comedy writer Jordan Peele floored filmgoers with his whip-smart horror movie Get Out, which was met with critical acclaim - including an Oscar for ‘Best Original Screenplay’. Blending scares with social commentary in ways not yet seen, Get Out oozed intelligence and truly stood out among a surplus of banal...
