Casting Octavia Spencer as an obsessed, creepy and twisted lady in this Blumhouse horror is a masterstroke. Playing against type and clearly enjoying every moment of the role, Spencer brings the role the right level of disturbed menace, as she … Continue reading Ma (2019) Review
Steve McQueen tackles a lot of key issues regarding race with his series of movies entitled collectively, Small Axe. Lovers Rock seems to be an unusual entry in this series in that it doesn’t overtly tackle any serious racial issue … Continue reading Best of 2020: Small Axe – Lovers Rock (2020) Review
Views from the Sofa is 9 Years Old today! As has become tradition, we always use our birthday to look back at the past year and give some awards based on the movies we have viewed and reviewed within that … Continue reading Views from the Sofa Awards 2021
Locke is a bold and impressive movie. It is almost entirely in the confines of one car. You only see one person’s face throughout the whole movie and the conversations are all over a Bluetooth car stereo as one man … Continue reading Locke (2013) Review
Ghostbusters is a complete classic. Before it became the movie that spawned toys, a great cartoon, videogames and sequels which vary in success and quality, it is easy to forget that this was just a simple, paranormal comedy. The fact … Continue reading Ghostbusters (1984) Review
The groundwork had been set so well in the first chapter that you couldn’t help but be excited for the possibility of return of Pennywise. The scares, the characters and the way relationships had been built in the first film … Continue reading IT: Chapter 2 (2019) Review
The best documentaries can make any subject compelling. In the case of Bobby Fischer against The World, its chess. Chess can be a compelling game anyway, and to be fair it is a secondary part of the story compared to … Continue reading Bobby Fischer against The World (2011) Review
Three Identical Strangers holds one of those rare but interesting documentary traits of being too good to be true. The story of two men who discover, much later in their life, that they are twins separated at birth, is a … Continue reading Three Identical Strangers (2018) Review
The best documentaries rely on credible and accurate information. If Fyre hadn’t been a documentary and hadn’t been filled with talking head interviews from people that witnessed the chaos and bizarre event first-hand, you’d think this was a wacky Seth … Continue reading Fyre (2019) Review
The Snowman starts strongly and creepily. It has a great opening which seems to set the scene for the mystery which is about to play out and creates a terrifying, snowman building serial killer. Even better is the type of … Continue reading The Snowman (2017) Review
