The winning bitter-sweet 2008 romantic film Watercolors stars Tye Olson and Kyle Clare as classmates Danny and Carter, two boys who make a splash at love. ‘Two boys make a splash at love.’ ‘Only art […]
The 1971 horror film The Brotherhood of Satan is a fairly scary, reasonably stylish little chiller, in which witch worship possesses a desert town in the grip of a cult of senior citizens recruiting the […]
The ‘Red threat’ of the Fifties was the main motivating influence – as well as J Edgar Hoover – behind the smooth 1952 Columbia Pictures drama thriller film Walk East on Beacon about the FBI […]
The intense and stylish 2022 Turkish epic thriller film Burning Days stars Selahattin Pasali as the young new prosecutor in a Turkish small town hit by a water crisis and political scandals. He finds a […]
There are three good performances from Madeleine Stowe, Mischa Barton and Jonathan Rhys Meyers – plus capable and tense direction by Marcus Adams too – in the flavoursome, atmospheric, quite gripping little 2003 British horror […]
Jake Gyllenhaal stars in Joe Johnston’s 1999 biopic October Sky as American boy Homer Hickam, who sees the launch of a Sputnik in 1957 and wants to build his own rocket, but his gloomy coal-mining […]
The weird 1960 British black and white short second feature drama film October Moth stars Lee Patterson as a mentally unbalanced man in a remote farm who imagines an accident victim is his long-dead mother, […]