For HCMovieReviews: “Welcome Home”

• LIKE on Facebook   • FOLLOW on Twitter   • FOLLOW on Instagram • SUBSCRIBE on YouTube   • BUY ME A COFFEE on Ko-Fi (spoiler free) Remember the erotic thrillers of the early 1990s? Well, ‘Welcome Home’ attempts to join that circle, but instead establishes a somewhat tasteless, yet entertaining thriller. The opening titles of ‘Welcome Home’ intercutting with a property rental website, soon presents the … Continue reading For HCMovieReviews: “Welcome Home”

For HCMovieReviews: “The Predator”

• LIKE on Facebook   • FOLLOW on Twitter   • FOLLOW on Instagram • SUBSCRIBE on YouTube   • BUY ME A COFFEE on Ko-Fi (spoiler free) Over thirty years since the release of the original ‘Predator’ movie, Shane Black returns to the franchise with the latest installment and sequel, ‘The Predator’. Lacking an A-List name to establish ‘The Predator’ as a star vehicle, can the new … Continue reading For HCMovieReviews: “The Predator”

For SetTheTape.com: “Lucid – SCI-FI LONDON Film Festival”

• LIKE on Facebook   • FOLLOW on Twitter   • FOLLOW on Instagram • SUBSCRIBE on YouTube   • BUY ME A COFFEE on Ko-Fi Ah, the trope of the eccentric mentor and his young, naive pupil. Billy Zane (posh guy from Titanic) and Laurie Calvert respectively star as Elliot and Zel in exciting less-than-90-minute adventure, Lucid. Zel is a loner, shy and generally weird. He works … Continue reading For SetTheTape.com: “Lucid – SCI-FI LONDON Film Festival”

For SetTheTape.com: “The Nightshifter – Review”

• LIKE on Facebook   • FOLLOW on Twitter   • FOLLOW on Instagram • SUBSCRIBE on YouTube   • BUY ME A COFFEE on Ko-Fi To put it lightly, The Nightshifter (original title Morto Não Fala) is really out there – it’s wild. Ticking all the boxes to be both a hipster’s favourite and cult film, The Nightshifter is world cinema/foreign language, has a distinct colour palette, … Continue reading For SetTheTape.com: “The Nightshifter – Review”

For SetTheTape.com: “The Bouncer – Review”

• LIKE on Facebook   • FOLLOW on Twitter   • FOLLOW on Instagram • SUBSCRIBE on YouTube   • BUY ME A COFFEE on Ko-Fi Across his 30+ year career, Jean-Claude Van Damme has been the Kickboxer, the Universal Soldier and the Replicant, but now, in his best lead role since JCVD, he is The Bouncer. Opening with a magnificent following shot of Van Damme’s Lukas, the … Continue reading For SetTheTape.com: “The Bouncer – Review”

For SetTheTape.com: “The Haunting of Sharon Tate – Review”

• LIKE on Facebook   • FOLLOW on Twitter   • FOLLOW on Instagram • SUBSCRIBE on YouTube   • BUY ME A COFFEE on Ko-Fi Yes, The Haunting of Sharon Tate IS a real film, and starring none other than Lizzie McGuire star, Hilary Duff, in the titular role. In what is a revisionism of the tragic Manson murders of 50 years ago, this (slightly?) based-on-true-events story … Continue reading For SetTheTape.com: “The Haunting of Sharon Tate – Review”

For SetTheTape.com: “The Mule – Film Review”

• LIKE on Facebook   • FOLLOW on Twitter   • FOLLOW on Instagram • SUBSCRIBE on YouTube   • BUY ME A COFFEE on Ko-Fi At the age of 88, four-time Oscar winner Clint Eastwood makes his on screen return in crime drama The Mule, inspired by a New York Times article. Replacing the .44 Magnum (“the most powerful handgun in the world…”) with gardening scissors, Eastwood’s … Continue reading For SetTheTape.com: “The Mule – Film Review”

For SetTheTape.com: “Backtrace – Film Review”

• LIKE on Facebook   • FOLLOW on Twitter   • FOLLOW on Instagram • SUBSCRIBE on YouTube   • BUY ME A COFFEE on Ko-Fi Bouncing between franchise revival films and the horrific Escape Plan 2, Sylvester Stallone stars alongside Stranger Things’ Matthew Modine in Backtrace – more appropriately direct-to-the-rubbish-bin than direct-to-video. Backtrace opens during the car journey home after a robbery or heist of sorts, and … Continue reading For SetTheTape.com: “Backtrace – Film Review”

For SetTheTape.com: “Bolton Film Festival: F-Rated Film”

• LIKE on Facebook   • FOLLOW on Twitter   • FOLLOW on Instagram • SUBSCRIBE on YouTube   • BUY ME A COFFEE on Ko-Fi Taking place within the lecture room on the basement floor of Bolton’s fantastic Museum, Aquarium and Archive, Bolton Film Festival’s special range of F-Rated film preceded an also fantastic industry panel on women in film. To be “F-Rated”, the film in question … Continue reading For SetTheTape.com: “Bolton Film Festival: F-Rated Film”

For SetTheTape.com: “Mission: Impossible – Fallout – Film Review”

• LIKE on Facebook   • FOLLOW on Twitter   • FOLLOW on Instagram • SUBSCRIBE on YouTube   • BUY ME A COFFEE on Ko-Fi Since featuring an out-of-this-world stunt or two in Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol, Tom Cruise and his team have pushed for wilder stunts and wilder action as the franchise grows older. After viewing the latest instalment, Mission: Impossible – Fallout, it will … Continue reading For SetTheTape.com: “Mission: Impossible – Fallout – Film Review”

For SetTheTape.com: “King Cohen – Film Review”

• LIKE on Facebook   • FOLLOW on Twitter   • FOLLOW on Instagram • SUBSCRIBE on YouTube   • BUY ME A COFFEE on Ko-Fi Larry Cohen, often referred to as “King Cohen”, is the king of what exactly? The King of Blaxploitation? The King of the B-Movie? The King of low-budget? The King of guerrilla filmmaking? King Cohen – opening with a pre-title segment of J.J. … Continue reading For SetTheTape.com: “King Cohen – Film Review”

For SetTheTape.com: “Escape Plan II – Film Review”

• LIKE on Facebook   • FOLLOW on Twitter   • FOLLOW on Instagram • SUBSCRIBE on YouTube   • BUY ME A COFFEE on Ko-Fi Stallone is back in Escape Plan II… for maybe a quarter or third of the running time, at least. Five years on from the original Escape Plan – co-starring Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger – only Stallone and 50 Cent reprise their … Continue reading For SetTheTape.com: “Escape Plan II – Film Review”