by Martin | Sep 27, 2025 | movies, reviews
FINAL DESTINATION: BLOODLINES Horror franchises are noted for their unkillable villains, constantly being resurrected, but the Final Destination films cut to the chase in that the villain is death itself, and who is going to kill him? Or her. Or them. The films settle...
by Martin | Jun 29, 2025 | movies, reviews
THE ENTITY It has always struck me that the general tone of life in America is one of hysteria. When I said this once to my cousin, who lives in Texas, she maintained that, rather than hysterics, Americans are ‘survivors’. If someone claims to be a...
by Martin | Apr 27, 2025 | movies, reviews
NOSFERATU ‘Yes we have Nosferatu, we have Nosferatu today.’ Not much chance of this (the best joke in Mel Brooks’ 1995 spoof Dracula: Dead and Loving It) making it into Robert Eggers’ latest spin on F. W. Murnau’s 1922 film, an...
by Martin | Mar 1, 2025 | movies, reviews
The big screen at the relocated FrightFest (Odeon Leicester Square) is almost scarily big now: I couldn’t face it. For single ticket buyers like me the seating options weren’t promising anyway. So I stuck with the Discovery Screens and found myself in...
by Martin | Jan 2, 2025 | movies, reviews
BLINK TWICE Waitress Frida (Naomi Ackie) and her friend Jess (Alia Shawkat) accept an invite to the private island of tech billionaire Slater King (Channing Tatum), where everybody seems to be having a fantastic time – or are they? Well, maybe not the women, who have...
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