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...
by Martin | Nov 10, 2024 | movies, reviews
THE SUBSTANCE Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance is preposterous, which makes perfect sense. We’re in the realm of showbiz, after all. Demi Moore is formidable as ‘Elizabeth Sparkle’, a fading star now fronting an aerobics show who is told by...
by Martin | Oct 16, 2024 | movies, reviews
LONGLEGS Longlegs has been subject to a lot of hype claiming that it is the scariest film of the year or decade or maybe even century, and it certainly maintains a tense and creepy atmosphere throughout, but the scariest moment comes before the credits, where the...
by Martin | Sep 14, 2024 | movies, reviews
Not content with having a horror film festival, Romford now has a film festival – which also features a lot of horror. I turned up for just the one offering, Chad Ferrin’s Unspeakable: Beyond The Wall of Sleep. Ferrin is a prolific director, and no doubt too...
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