A last-minute free ticket ballot got me into the UK premiere of Duncan Jones’s Rogue Trooper on Friday night. Despite knowing very little about 2000AD, with my knowledge starting and finishing at the basic plot of Judge Dredd, there was something really satisfying about seeing a CG-animated film that is […]
Movies & Documentaries
London Film Festival – Spotlighting 5 Films That Need UK Distribution
London Film Festival is in full swing and is currently hosting some of the world’s biggest stars and directors. Audiences have been treated to massive screenings of films that will be competing for the big awards come next year. There’s something tantalising about the prospect of seeing these films before […]
London Film Festival and Good Days
The 70th edition of the London Film Festival officially kicked off yesterday. The festival will screen 251 titles (comprising features, shorts, series and immersive works) from 88 countries. Kristy Matheson, Artistic Director of BFI Film Festivals, has curated a mammoth programme which will welcome some of the world’s best directors […]
Hush (2016) Mike Flanagan’s Early Suspenseful Horror, Reimagined
Aren’t you a lucky duck? With these words, writer-director Mike Flanagan and co-writer/star Kate Siegel introduce a special edit on this limited edition of their first collaboration, HUSH, originally released in 2016 on Netflix, and only now granted a physical release. And the owner of this edition is indeed most […]
Trick or Treat (1986) THE Rock N’ Roll High Camp Comedy Horror Classic
Over the past couple of years, I’ve felt like a gap has opened up in the UK physical media market; whilst we may be living in the prime era of collectors’ edition Blu-Ray and 4K UHD home video releases, it feels as though UK distributors have fallen out of love […]
Sexy Beast 4K (2000) Sweltering Heat & Subversive Gangsters
Jonathan Glazer has a remarkable career. Alongside numerous music videos and memorable commercials, over the past two and a half decades, he has directed only four feature films, each of them highly distinctive. The intense psychological drama Birth could not be more different from the deeply strange science fiction Under […]
No Rest for the Wicked (Fantastic Fest 2026)
LGBTQ+ themes have played a large part in genre films of recent years. Just this year queer relationships have been explored in Whistle and Leviticus, being delicately handled and naturally presented in ways that influenced the supernatural events taking place without exploitation. No Rest For The Wicked can be considered […]
Semolina Pilchard (2026) A fearless independent Crime Thriller, Liverpool-Style
Semolina Pilchard is the latest film from Liverpool-based independent filmmaker Mike Clarke, and, if you haven’t already guessed from its Beatles-inspired title, it’s a high-energy love letter to city. Released to Blu-ray via Clarke’s own label Last Slate Video from October 5th (it will be available to stream from November […]
The Black Rock (2026) Impressive Micro-Budget WWII Drama
Regular readers will be familiar with my championing of local filmmaking talent here on Merseyside, from Michael J. Long’s Baby Brother (recently out on wide release to great acclaim), to several films by Jack McLoughlin (who’ll soon be making his television debut with Channel 5’s revival of Play for Today). […]
Roma Elastica (Fantastic Fest 2026)
Not, as Britons of a certain age may expect, a film about Justine Frischmann and the gang touring Italy, Roma Elastica is the latest film by Bertrand Mandico. If the name is unfamiliar, that’s no surprise. Mandico is one of the most unique, surprising and consistently entertaining voices in queer […]