27th Dec2017

‘The Limehouse Golem’ DVD Review

by Matthew Turner

Stars: Bill Nighy, Olivia Cooke, Douglas Booth, Daniel Mays, Sam Reid, Maria Valverde, Henry Goodman, Eddie Marsan | Written by Jane Goldman | Directed by Juan Carlos Medina If you know your mythical creatures, the title (and, indeed, the IMDb synopsis) of this period horror movie might give you unreasonable expectations for its content. However, […]

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02nd Sep2017

‘The Limehouse Golem’ Review

by Matthew Turner

Review by Matthew Turner Stars: Bill Nighy, Olivia Cooke, Douglas Booth, Daniel Mays, Sam Reid, Maria Valverde, Henry Goodman, Eddie Marsan | Written by Jane Goldman | Directed by Juan Carlos Medina If you know your mythical creatures, the title (and, indeed, the IMDb synopsis) of this period horror movie might give you unreasonable expectations […]

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23rd Feb2017

‘The Coldest City’ gets a re-title and new poster

by Phil Wheat

Focus Features has released the first poster for director David Leitch’s (John Wick) latest film, the action thriller Atomic Blonde, which stars Charlize Theron, James McAvoy, John Goodman, Til Schweiger, Eddie Marsan, Sofia Boutella and Toby Jones. Wait! I hear you cry. Wasn’t Charlize Theron’s new spy thriller called The Coldest City? It was indeed. […]

30th Nov2015

‘River’ DVD Review

by Paul Metcalf

To make a detective show stand out these days there has to be something a little different about it. It needs to stands out from the huge crowd of ones that already have huge fan bases. River is one that not only has Stellan Skarsgård to catch people’s interest, but a decidedly macabre twist. John […]

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01st Jul2015

‘Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell’ Review

by Paul Metcalf

If shows like Doctor Who prove anything, it is that BBC are good at fantasy.  So it’s somewhat of a surprise that they haven’t tapped into the popularity of Harry Potter or at least done it sooner… but finally things have changed with Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell. With magic a lost art in England, […]

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13th Jan2015

‘God’s Pocket’ DVD Review

by Paul Metcalf

Stars: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Christina Hendricks, Eddie Marsan, Richard Jenkins, John Turturro, Caleb Landry Jones, Jack O’Connell | Written by John Slattery, Alex Metcalf | Directed by John Slattery Last year when we lost Philip Seymour Hoffman we lost one of the best actors of our generation, or any generation.  It’s hard to comprehend the loss that the movie industry […]

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15th Feb2014

‘Filth’ Blu-ray Review

by Paul Metcalf

Stars: Imogen Poots, James McAvoy, Joanne Froggatt, Jamie Bell, Shirley Henderson, Eddie Marsan, Iain De Caestecker, Jim Broadbent, Pollyanna McIntosh | Written and Directed by Jon S. Baird I think it’s fair to say that my movie tastes can be quite diverse at times, but my true love is for the movie that looks at […]

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24th Nov2013

‘The World’s End’ Blu-ray Review

by Paul Metcalf

Stars: Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Martin Freeman, Paddy Considine, Rosamund Pike, Eddie Marsan | Written by Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg | Directed by Edgar Wright When Gary King (Simon Pegg) decides it’s time to finish the Golden Mile, a pub crawl he gathers his old friends from his home town together to relive the old […]

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09th Jul2013

‘The World’s End’ Review

by Jack Kirby

Stars: Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Paddy Considine, Eddie Marsan, Martin Freeman, Rosamund Pike | Written by Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg | Directed by Edgar Wright When was the last time you went to the cinema and properly and frequently belly-laughed your way through a film? Having sat through the relatively mirthless Hangover Part III, This is the […]

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08th Apr2012

‘Shadow of the Sword’ Review

by Paul Metcalf

Stars: Steven Berkoff, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Julie Cox, Patrick Godfrey, Eddie Marsan | Written by Steve Attridge, Susanne Freund | Directed by Simon Aeby When writing a story about history it seems that the easy thing to do is look at religion. It’s a subject that has created such division in society it just screams out […]

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