FEEDBACK **** UK / Spain 2019 Dir: Pedro C Alonso. 97 mins At the start of this intense, timely London-set thriller, station boss Anthony Head dismisses radio host Eddie Marsan’s long-running late-night talk show “The Grim Reality” as too bleak and contentious for Brexit-era listeners just wanting to be cheered…
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COME TO DADDY **** Canada / New Zealand / Ireland / USA 2019 Dir: Ant Timpson. 93 mins Elijah Wood’s eclectic adult career chalks up another compelling, unsympathetic character in the feature directing debut for well-known producer Ant Timpson (DEATHGASM, TURBO KID); he also co-wrote the script with THE GREASY…
What better way to celebrate the festive season than with a zombie apocalypse Christmas musical? ANNA AND THE APOCALYPSE is ‘A delightful Christmas/horror/comedy/musical hybrid, with a great cast and entertaining gore’ (IGN) directed by John McPhail (Where Do We Go From Here) and is set for its UK Blu-ray debut…
UPGRADE **** USA 2018 Dir: Leigh Whannell. 100 mins Leigh Whannell’s second film as director (following the superior INSIDIOUS: CHAPTER 3) is a hard-edged slice of technophobic sci-fi in which budgetary restrictions work in the film’s favour and obvious thematic parallels to ROBOCOP and Cronenbergian body horror do not distract…
NEKROTRONIC **** Australia 2018 Dir: Kiah Roache-Turner. 98 mins Another confident, crowd-pleasing comic horror from the director of the well-liked WYRMWOOD (co-written with his brother Tristan), Kiah Roache-Turner’s NEKROTRONIC joins a small cycle of killer app movies. In the words of the film’s engaging early animated exposition, “some evil bastard”…