Reviews

Author: Eve Smith Publisher: Orenda Books Price: £9.99 (Paperback) ONE by Eve Smith, acclaimed author of Off Target (read the review here), takes readers on a gripping journey through a not-too-distant future marred by the devastating consequences of climate change and a resource crisis. Set in Britain, a nation seeking salvation from catastrophe turns to the
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Released: 28 July 2023 (in cinemas) Director: Danny Philippou, Michael Philippou Cast: Sophie Wilde, Joe Bird, Alexandra Jensen, Otis Dhanji, Miranda Otto, Marcus Johnson Distributor: Altitude Film Distribution Talk To Me opens with one brother on an anxious quest for another, desperate to talk to him. The camera tracks Cole (Ari McCarthy) as he walks
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Released: 7 July Certificate: 15 Director: Quentin Dupieux Writer: Quentin Dupieux Cast: Gilles Lellouche, Anaïs Demoustier, Vincent Lacoste, Jean-Pascal Zadi, Oulaya Amamra, Alain Chabat, Adèle Exarchopoulos, Benoît Poelvoorde Distributor: Picturehouse Entertainment Running Time: 77 mins Featuring stories of a homicidal tire with psionic powers (Rubber) and a jacket that influences its wearer to commit crimes
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Certificate: 12A Director: Andy Muschietti Writer: Christina Hodson, Joby Harold Cast: Ezra Miller, Sasha Calle, Ben Affleck, Michael Keaton, Ron Livingston, Michael Shannon, Kiersey Clemons, Maribel Verdu Running Time: 144 mins Much about The Flash goes without saying. The headlines surrounding its star, Ezra Miller, Michael Keaton’s return as Batman and those ecstatic first reviews
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Director: Joe Lynch Writer: Dennis Paoli Cast: Heather Graham, Judah Lewis, Bruce Davison, Barbara Crampton, Johnathon Schaech Suitable Flesh begins with a POV shot from inside a body bag being zipped open. As psychiatrist Dr Dani Upton (Barbara Crampton) and the morgue’s pathologist (Graham Skipper) look down, Dani comments: “It’s impossible to tell that’s a person,
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The 2023 Sci-Fi-London film festival is taking place from 31 May – 6 June 2023  at four cinemas in central London: the Prince Charles Cinema, the Picturehouse Central, the Garden Cinema and Rich Mix. Sci-Fi-London has always showcased the very best of independent science fiction and this year is no different with a brilliant programme
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Released: 2 June 2023 (in cinemas) Certificate: 15 Director: Rob Savage Cast: Sophie Thatcher, Chris Messina, David Dastmalchian Distributor: Walt Disney Studios Over the years not as many horror films as you would expect dare to kill the kid. There is of course the unforgettable crash scene in director Mary Lambert’s adaptation of Stephen King’s
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Sci-Fi-London is back to planet earth once more. Its 23rd incarnation, spread over several cinemas in Central London, boasts 13 new features,19 shorts, and a special retrospective screening of Peter Watkins’ post-nuclear faux documentary The War Game (1966) with a new live score. The eclectic programme includes films not just from the US, Canada and
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Director: Wes Anderson Writer: Wes Anderson Cast: Jason Schwartzman, Scarlett Johansson, Tom Hanks, Tilda Swinton, Bryan Cranston, Edward Norton, Adrien Brody, Margot Robbie, Jeff Goldblum Running Time: 104 mins Wes Anderson’s 1950s-set, cosmic-themed Asteroid City (2023) won’t win over detractors. Not a single one. The revelling in artifice, the postmodernist smarty-pants command of craft, the deadpan
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Released: 19 May (in cinemas) Certificate: 15 Director: Ari Aster Writer: Ari Aster Cast: Joaquin Phoenix, Nathan Lane, Amy Ryan, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Hayley Squires, Denis Ménochet, Kylie Rogers, Armen Nahapetian, Zoe Lister-Jones, Parker Posey and Patti LuPone Distributor: Sony Pictures / A24 “Stay hydrated,” is the advice given to 37-year-old Beau Wassermann (played at
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Released: 1 May (on digital platforms) Director: Franklin Ritch Writer: Franklin Ritch Cast: Lance Henriksen, Tatum Matthews, Sinda Nichols, David Girard Special Agent Deena Helms (Sinda Nichols) enters a bare office – more an interrogation room – in the basement of the Florida building where she works, dictates some business messages to Siri on her
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Director: Carter Smith Writer: Carter Smith Cast: Jena Malone, Mark Patton, Cooper Koch, Jose Colon Swallowed is a film of mouth, cock and anus. Like writer/director Carter Smith’s previous Jamie Marks is Dead (2014), it is a genre piece with a queer element that is simultaneously foregrounded and sublimated. Its protagonist Benjamin (Cooper Koch, whose
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Released: 21 April (in cinemas) Certificate: 18 Director: Lee Cronin Cast: Alyssa Sutherland, Lily Sullivan, Morgan Davies, Nell Fisher, Gabrielle Echols Distributor: StudioCanal Since Sam Raimi wound up his era-defining Evil Dead trilogy in 1992, we’ve had a ruthless remake (2013) which wasn’t terrible but didn’t spawn sequels. Then three seasons of Ash vs the
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Released: 31 March 2023 Creator: Naomi Alderman, Raelle Tucker, Sarah Quintrell Cast: Toni Collette, John Leguizamo, Auli’i Cravalho, Ria Zmitrowicz, Halle Bush, Toheeb Jimoh Distributor: Prime Video Running Time: 9 episodes After a torturously long production, thanks to Covid, and the loss of various cast members, the TV adaptation of Naomi Alderman’s award-winning novel, The
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Released: 31 March 2023 (in cinemas) Certificate: 12 Director: John Francis Daley, Jonathan Goldstein Cast: Chris Pine, Michelle Rodriguez, Regé-Jean Page Distributor: Paramount Running Time: 134 mins A great cast lead the charge in co-writers and directors John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein’s Dungeons & Dragons: Honour Among Thieves, a rip-roaring and hilarious fantasy adventure
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