“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 entirely appropriate in my opinion for a couple of reasons, but I’ll get to that…

“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 as well as several episodes of WandaVision. He’s now come across a very hard task-…

“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 One: A Star Wars Story. While this film is in continuity with the previous entries…

“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 an interesting choice because, unlike their other live-action remakes, this one isn’t based on a…

“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 do you adapt Minecraft, a game where you essentially make the story yourself? Yeah, there’s…

“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 famous for directing 500 Days of Summer and The Amazing Spider-Man movies.  And oh boy,…

“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 rather twisting the definition for that award, since this is a film with no human…

“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 Cloverfield Paradox… not one of the finest entries in that series.  This also marks 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, just for its sheer use of imagery and the effects used to make the ghoulish…

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 I only had 10 films in consideration for that list, it was a disservice to…

“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 the role of Mary Brown, you may recognise her as Jane Banks from Mary Poppins…

“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 Barnes (Sophie Thatcher) and Sister Paxton (Chloe East) who are trying to get some converts…

“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 don’t know how faithful the adaptation is, so I’ll be judging the film standalone. The…

“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 film’s setting to be in the West Country, though it starts in Italy, with an…

“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 go into detail on, which will affect the review. Suffice to say, this is a…

“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, which starred the late Brandon Lee. Personally, I really quite liked that film. This film…

“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. In case you’re wondering, he’s the guy behind the Evil Dead film from 2013 and…