Wow. WOW. Everyone really HATED this. Um. Except me. Sorry. I liked it. I seem to just really like Christophe Gans movies. Everything from Crying Freeman (my introduction to the wonder that is Mark Da...

I kind of hate dunking on this one, because MJ Bassett has made one film I liked (Solomon Kane), one where I appreciated the effort (Red Sonja) and a whole bunch of great TV (Reacher, Neagley, Altered...

A lot to unpack here in a film that probably doesn't deserve the effort. Doing a bit of reading on this after viewing, the fact that it's made by two recent UCLA grads with a cast of friends and famil...

Closing out the BFI's Bryan Forbes season is this excellent prison drama. Fine performances all round, especially George Segal's wheeler-dealer and James Fox, the British officer he befriends. But the...

Around three decades ago I used to hate-watch movies with a group of friends over skype (young people, skype was like zoom but worse). Since my riffing pals were in north America, I was often watching...

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The romcom-industrial-complex has a huge new source of power in the immense booktok-driven monolith of romance fiction. And since Amazon knows what you're all reading by beaming its algorithm into you...

Bryan Forbes directed this baggy farce that's long om running time and short on laughs. The script, co-written by the creator of M.A.S.H., was extensively reworked by Forbes, and despite a cast of com...

With the Bryan Forbes centenary screenings at the BFI currently going on (September 2026), it seemed an apropos time to dig this one out. While it's one of those films that just sort of comes to you o...

Rhys Frake-Waterfield's second salvo in what's become known as the 'twisted childhood universe' franchise. It clearly had a bigger budget than the first; improved (though still iffy) prosthetics, bett...

Engaging-enough action comedy from Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley, the folks behind Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves. Ryan Reynolds gives his usual performance as an American top gun...

British slasher that seemed to kick off the whole 'stuff out of copyright is fair game' craze, though the Grinch-themed horror The Mean One was actually the year before. The A. A. Milne connection got...

This is regularly described as an 'American giallo' (just look at the reviews on here). Gialli are among the most 'know it when I see it' movies, and sorry but here I just don't see it. Sure, it has a...

This might be my favourite Bryan Forbes film - yes, better even than the mighty Whistle Down the Wind. The new wave kitchen-sink drama isn't usually my vibe. But Forbes creates such a vivid portrait o...

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A pretty significant giallo that is only just getting a nice home format treatment from Cult Epics. It's a fairly low-key, slow burning affair that even at this earlyish stage of the gialli (1971) is ...