Film Review: ‘The Ice Cream Truck’ (2017)

One thing that horror films tend to successfully mirror from real life is that one should never return to their hometown to live there. The Ice Cream Truck perfects this. From writer-director Megan Freels Johnston, this is a female-driven horror film which is completely masterful in its trickery of expectation, if not a little risky in its execution. Continue reading Film Review: ‘The Ice Cream Truck’ (2017)

For HCMovieReviews: “Running with the Devil”

• LIKE on Facebook   • FOLLOW on Twitter   • FOLLOW on Instagram • SUBSCRIBE on YouTube   • BUY ME A COFFEE on Ko-Fi (spoiler free) Despite what the title suggests, this isn’t a Van Halen biopic starring Nicolas Cage as David Lee Roth. Instead, it’s about drugs. Opening with a series of almost juxtaposing images, we see both the glamorous side of drugs in the … Continue reading For HCMovieReviews: “Running with the Devil”

For Nerdly.co.uk: “Killers Anonymous Review”

• LIKE on Facebook   • FOLLOW on Twitter   • FOLLOW on Instagram • SUBSCRIBE on YouTube   • BUY ME A COFFEE on Ko-Fi My new film review for Nerdly… ‘Starring’ Gary Oldman, Killers Anonymous is out now on DVD. A film playing on the Whodunnit type, I ask: Wholikedit? Read the review here: https://www.nerdly.co.uk/2019/08/30/killers-anonymous-review/ This article’s featured image: By Source, Lionsgate, Fair Use, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killers_Anonymous#/media/File:Killers_Anonymous_poster.jpg   Continue reading For Nerdly.co.uk: “Killers Anonymous Review”

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: “8mm – Throwback 20”

• LIKE on Facebook   • FOLLOW on Twitter   • FOLLOW on Instagram • SUBSCRIBE on YouTube   • BUY ME A COFFEE on Ko-Fi So, what happens when you mix a post-Con Air Nicolas Cage with a post-Batman & Robin Joel Schumacher and a story involving underground porn and snuff films? You have 1999’s 8mm. 20 years on from its release, 8mm is far from being … Continue reading For SetTheTape.com: “8mm – Throwback 20”

For SetTheTape.com: “Manchester Film Festival: Touched”

• LIKE on Facebook   • FOLLOW on Twitter   • FOLLOW on Instagram • SUBSCRIBE on YouTube   • BUY ME A COFFEE on Ko-Fi Is she dead? Is he dead? Is she real? Is he real? What is real? Touched is a pretentious, bleak, but very curious psychological-mystery-thriller-drama all the way from Canada. Gabriel (Forgive Me’s Hugh Thompson) is the slightly private, slightly creepy, slightly mysterious … Continue reading For SetTheTape.com: “Manchester Film Festival: Touched”