Dark and intense Scottish thriller A Banquet plays on 5/6th March at the GFT for the Glasgow Film Festival, before going to cinemas and digital platforms on 11th March. Review coming soon Cert 15, 97mins Synopsis: A Banquet is an unsettling, thought-provoking and hyper-tense psychological thriller from director Ruth Paxton. The film stars Sienna Guillory (Resident Evil franchise, Luther), Jessica […]
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Killer Thriller Week on the Horror Channel this March!
Back in the day, reviews described thriller films as CHILLER DILLER. Such comments will be fitting for Horror Channel’s KILLER THRILLER WEEK in March. This white-knuckle week includes the UK premiere of Mena Suvari-starring mystery thriller PARADISE COVE as well as the channel premiere of road thriller COP CAR, as Kevin Bacon […]
Arrow Video FrightFest 2022 announces bumper Glasgow Film Festival line-up
It’s back! After being one of the last stages of normalcy before Covid, the UK’s No.1 horror & fantasy film festival returns to the Glasgow Film Theatre. This frightfully fantastic venue has been FrightFest’s second home for 17 glorious years has been, and now it returns as part of the […]
Car Crash Theatre: Heaven Sent (2016)(Review)
Watching for the joy of mocking what’s on screen is an underrated pleasure. There’s a vast library of so-bad-it’s-good films out there, but I’m always on the lookout for more. And so, the made for TV movie ‘Heaven Sent’ looked like it had a lot of promise. The premise is […]
The Fox in the Forest (2022: Tabletop Matters) Cards, cunning, and fairy tales (Review)
How’s the endless pandemic treating you? How was Lockdown and its sequels? How’re you finding sticking stuff up your nose, swabbing your throat, steamed up glasses, or washing your hands until they’re sore? If you’re looking for a diversion from the daily doom, try drifting into fiction, fantasy, or the […]
Doctor Who: Eve of the Daleks (2021)(Review)
CONTAINS SPOILERS Since Doctor Who crashed back on our Christmas TV schedules in 2005 with tenth Doctor David Tennent’s maiden voyage in The Christmas Invasion, the festive tradition of Christmas Who’s sat nicely alongside our turkey and Quality Street on the 25th December. That was until Chris Chibnall took over […]
Doctor Who Flux – the Vanquishers (Episode 6)(Review)
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Doctor Who Flux – Survivors of the Flux (Episode 5)(Review)
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Doctor Who Flux – The Village of the Angels (Episode 4)(Review)
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Doctor Who Flux – Once Upon Time (Episode 3)(Review)
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