The Review at the End of the Universe
Brian O’Malley’s Let Us Prey follows a group of people manning a forgotten police station in a backwater Scottish town when strange and violent events start to happen testing officers and inmates alike. I really enjoyed this film for the most part. The story was really engaging with a sinister supernatural element to it that…
The Infinite Man is the story of a man named Dean (Josh McConville) who is obsessed with putting together the perfect romantic weekend for his girlfriend Lana (Hannah Marshall) to celebrate their anniversary. Things go a bit wrong when his desire for perfection causes them to be stuck in an infinite time loop that gets…
In We’ll Never Have Paris, Simon Helberg writes and co-directs a fictionalised version of the events that lead to him almost losing his wife (co-director Jocelyn Towne) and the pains he took to win her back. Simon Helberg plays Quinn, a socially awkward florist who is preparing to propose to his long term girlfriend Devon…
The Amazing Spider-Man 2 and Chronicle‘s Dane DeHaan and Parks and Recreation‘s Aubrey Plaza star in Zombie romantic comedy Life After Beth, an undeniably fresh spin on the Zombie comedy genre that seems to be cropping up all over the place these days. Zach (Dane DeHaan) is distraught after his ex girlfriend Beth (Aubrey Plaza)…
Noel Clarke both stars in and directs The Anomaly, a sci-fi action thriller that follows Ryan (Clarke) who wakes up in the back of a van with no memory of how he got there and only has a few minutes to figure it out. The narrative of the film is disjointed as we learn pieces…
Nicolas Cage plays the titular character in the David Gordon Green directed Joe, a film about a man who mentors an abused young man named Gary (Tye Sheridan) when he sees him mistreated by his father. Everybody, look Nicolas Cage can still act, he really hasn’t forgotten how. It’s great to see Cage take on…
Coherence is a film about eight friends meeting up for a dinner party on the same night that a comet happens to be passing overhead. This being a film, the comet is no incidental coincidence and a lot of strange things start happening. The film implies that the comet is the cause of these weird…
After several failed attempts to commit suicide, a young Glaswegian named Tom (Graeme McGeagh) decides that he needs to step up his game and plan a Spectacular Suicide, as he is trying to do this he forms relationships and gets to grips with his suicidal nature. I knew little about this film going in but…
Is there a member of the Coppola family not blessed with talent? Gia Coppola makes her directorial debut in this adaptation of a James Franco novel following teenagers and the problems they face growing up in California. There’s isn’t so much an overall story as there is a series of stories that are tangentally connected…
Written and directed by Gabe Turner, The Guvnors is a violent thriller set among the gangs of South East London as two generations battle over control of the area as events force the old rulers to come out of hiding to teach the youth a lesson when they go too far. There are two protagonists…
