“WEAPONS” Weapons is a recent horror film written and directed by Zachary Cregger. It garnered very favourable reviews upon its release, reaching in the 100% club on Rotten Tomatoes for a brief period. Calling Weapons a pure horror film isn’t…

“THE FANTASTIC FOUR: FIRST STEPS” The Fantastic Four: First Steps is the latest Marvel Cinematic film, this time coming from director Mark Shakman, a largely TV director having directed episodes of Game of Thrones and It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia…

“JURASSIC WORLD REBIRTH” In what is inexplicably the seventh entry in this franchise, Jurassic World Rebirth comes to us from director Gareth Edwards, his previous credits including the 2014 Godzilla movie that kicked off that franchise, and of course Rogue…

“LILO AND STITCH (2025)” Lilo and Stitch is the latest Disney film, this time directed by Dean Fleischer Camp- I’ve never seen his other films, so I can’t give an opinion on him as a director. Lilo and Stitch is…

“A MINECRAFT MOVIE” Directed by Jared Hess, known for directing films like Napoleon Dynamite and Nacho Libre, he brings the first adaptation in movie form of the Minecraft video games. Obviously, this comes with a bit of an issue- how…

“SNOW WHITE” Snow White is the latest in Disney’s live action remakes that has been part of their initiative to reinforce the brand that helped build them. In this case, we have director Marc Webb at the helm, who is…

“FLOW” Flow is now, before it’s UK release, a historically significant movie. Directed by Gints Zilbalodis, it becomes the first Latvian movie to win an Oscar- winning Best Animated Feature and also being nominated for Best Foreign Language, which is…

“CAPTAIN AMERICA: BRAVE NEW WORLD” Brave New World is the latest film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and this film now sees director Julius Onah to take over the role, whose most notable credit prior to this is directing the…

“NOSFERATU” Nosferatu is the latest horror film to come from director Robert Eggers and is a remake of the classic silent film of the same name from Germany. Nosferatu has been one of the most influential silent films ever made,…

Top 5 Movies of 2024 2024 has come to a close, and with it came probably the blandest year to go to the cinema… I had planned to do a top 10 films again, but I actually felt that because…

“PADDINGTON IN PERU” Paddington in Peru is the latest film in the series, and has most of the cast returning to reprise roles, with some exceptions; the most notable being that Sally Hawkings has been recast as Emily Mortimer for…

“HERETIC” Heretic is the latest horror film from A24 pictures and was written and directed by two of the guys who wrote the Quiet Place movie, Scott Beck and Ryan Woods. It follows the story of two Mormon missionaries, Sister…

“THE WILD ROBOT (2024)” The Wild Robot is another DreamWorks animation film that was written and directed by Chris Sanders and is based on the book of the same name by Peter Brown. I haven’t read the book, so I…

“SPEAK NO EVIL” Speak No Evil is directed by Woman In Black and Mafia director James Watkins and is a remake of a Danish film from 2022 that was released to the horror-themed streaming service Shudder.  This one changes the…

“BEETLEJUICE BEETLEJUICE” A very long in development sequel, Tim Burton now returns to direct a follow up to his 1988 film, Beetlejuice, which surprisingly manages to get most of the cast back, bar a few exceptions; one which we will…

“THE CROW” I don’t even know why I’m bothering. This movie was awful, and I hated it. Sorry, that’s not very useful criticism, so I’ll get down to the nitty gritty. This is a remake of The Crow from 1994,…

“ALIEN ROMULUS” Alien Romulus is the latest in the Alien franchise, though unlike recent entries, this one does not have Ridley Scott in the director’s chair- he’s now in the role of producer, with Fede Alvarez taking over as director.…

Trap Trap is the latest film from director M. Night Shyamalan, which built up a decent following before release due to its trailer, which gives away one of the major hooks of the film. Since that hook was in the…