Anyone who has ever had a problem with rats in their home will tell you that it can be a pretty terrifying experience. Many nights spent lying awake in the dark (if you are brave enough to switch the light off that is) listening to scuttling, scratching and gnawing from an unseen invader.  Horrible! So [...]

“I killed my dog. My best friend’s dying of cancer. I’m ****ed,” says angry alcoholic Joseph (Peter Mullan) in ‘Tyrannosaur.’ His words perceptively sum up the grim mood of a film in which the opening moments see Joseph‘s poor canine chum kicked into the next world by his owner. Not the dogs fault; he is [...]

  When you think of the 1970s which images pop into your head?  Glittery disco balls or flared trousers and tank tops, perhaps? There is a flipside to such rose-tinted recollections as the Seventies were also a time of drab brown interiors, too-tight suits and poorly chosen hair-cuts. All these latter items pop up in [...]

  ‘Larry Crowne’ sees two of mainstream cinema’s biggest stars come together for only the second time in their careers. Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts could easily lay claim to the be the King and Queen of Hollywood, given their long standing box-office appeal and success rate when choosing  hit vehicles for their talents.  The [...]

A Spanish horror thriller ‘Julia’s Eyes’ arrives with the promise of great things. Chief among these is the presence of Guillermo Del Toro as producer. The last time he put his name to a Spanish horror/thriller, it was to the brilliant ‘The Orphanage’ in 2007. The Mexican writer and director has one of the finest [...]

The massive success of the first ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ film in 2003 came as something of a shock. By that point, the pirate genre was considered dead and buried. This was largely thanks to the swashbuckling disaster ‘Cutthroat Island’ which was released eight years earlier. How wrong could they have been? ‘Pirates of the [...]

If you are a committed urbanite who is edgy at just the thought of a trip into the countryside, then ‘Wake Wood’ should give you the shivers.  The film is set in one of those backwater villages, plentiful in horror fiction, where the inhabitants have just a passing knowledge of modernity and strong links to [...]

With the conclusion of the ‘Twilight’ saga not far off, there is a whole audience of teens out there who will soon be facing a gaping void in their lives. What will these youngsters do when R-Patz finally hangs up his fangs and heads off in search of more adult roles? The makers of ‘I [...]

When compared to his first two films, ‘Rabbit Hole’ appears to be an unlikely choice for the director, John Cameron Mitchell. Both his previous efforts, ‘Shortbus’ and ‘Hedwig and the Angry Inch,’ were outrageous and off the wall, not the sort of thing that you would take your mother to  see unless she happens to [...]

Outside of America, the Green Hornet is not as familiar a figure as other masked heroes such as the Lone Ranger who, like the Hornet, also began life on radio in the 1930s.  Yet, the Hornet has since cropped up in a variety of media, from movie serials to comic books and even a short-lived [...]