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Review – ‘Halloween’ has slasher flair, but lacks proper horror

09/11/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2018, Andi Matichak, Certificate: 18, David Gordon Green, Halloween, Haluk Bilginer, Horror, James Jude Courtney, Jamie Lee Curtis, Judy Greer, Nick Castle, October 2018, Rating: Pop, Will Patton

David Gordon Green takes on iconic slasher villain Michael Myers and Halloween, with the blessing of original creator John Carpenter.

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Review – Mark Wahlberg is even more smug than usual in ‘Mile 22’

24/09/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2018, Action, Carlo Alban, Certificate: 18, Iko Uwais, John Malkovich, Lauren Cohan, Mark Wahlberg, Mile 22, Peter Berg, Poorna Jagannathan, Rating: Poop, Ronda Rousey, September 2018, Thriller

Mark Wahlberg and Peter Berg join forces again, but deliver a thriller devoid of thrills with Mile 22.

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Review – Music doc ‘Matangi/Maya/MIA’ untangles a complex star

24/09/201825/09/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2018, Certificate: 18, Documentary, Matangi/Maya/MIA, MIA, Rating: Pop, September 2018, Steve Loveridge

British-Tamil pop star MIA is at the centre of documentary Matangi/Maya/MIA, which traces her musical career and political activism.

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Review – ‘Climax’ is Gaspar Noé’s dark descent into dance depravity

23/09/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2018, Certificate: 18, Claude Gajan Maull, Climax, Gaspar Noé, Giselle Palmer, Horror, Kiddy Smile, Rating: Pop, Romain Guillermic, September 2018, Sofia Boutella, Souheila Yacoub

Noé allows grotesque chaos to unfold in an LSD-spiked nightmare that confines an intoxicated dance troupe to a grubby hall.

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Blu-ray Review – ‘The Pyjama Girl Case’ takes the giallo Down Under

16/09/201816/09/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2018, Blu-ray, Certificate: 18, Dalila Di Lazzaro, Flavio Mogherini, Giallo, Howard Ross, Michele Placido, Ramiro Oliveros, Rating: Poop, Ray Milland, Rod Mullinar, September 2018, The Pyjama Girl Case, Thriller

The giallo moves across to Australia for the 1970s thriller The Pyjama Girl Case, which tells the true story of a mysterious murder.

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Blu-ray Review – ‘Horrors of Malformed Men’ is clumsy, but knows how to chill to the bone

15/09/201818/09/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2018, Blu-ray, Certificate: 18, Horror, Horrors of Malformed Men, Michiko Kobata, Minoru Ôki, Rating: Pop, September 2018, Tatsumi Hijikata, Teruko Yumi, Teruo Ishii, Teruo Yoshida, Yukie Kagawa

Teruo Ishii’s adaptation of a Japanese mystery story is a frequently disturbing, occasionally frustrating chiller.

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Blu-ray Review – ‘Salvador’ is an unflinching look at political hypocrisy

15/09/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2018, Blu-ray, Certificate: 18, Cindy Gibb, Elpidia Carrillo, James Woods, Jim Belushi, John Savage, Oliver Stone, Rating: Pop, Salvador, September 2018

Oliver Stone takes on the politics of Central America in the 1980s with the down and dirty war drama Salvador.

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DVD Review – ‘Hatchet 4: Victor Crowley’ brings the gore, but little else

04/09/201807/09/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2018, Adam Green, Brian Quinn, Certificate: 18, Chase Williamson, Dave Sheridan, DVD, Felissa Rose, Hatchet, Hatchet 4: Victor Crowley, Horror, Kane Hodder, Katie Booth, Krystal Joy Brown, Laura Ortiz, Parry Shen, Rating: Poop, September 2018, Tiffany Shepis, Tony Todd

Kane Hodder returns as the terrifying bayou butcher in Hatchet 4: Victor Crowley, as Adam Green revives his slasher franchise.

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Blu-ray Review – ‘Incident in a Ghostland’ is tasteless and offensive, but just about works

03/09/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2018, Anastasia Phillips, Blu-ray, Certificate: 18, Crystal Reed, Emilia Jones, Ghostland, Horror, Incident in a Ghostland, Kevin Power, Mylène Farmer, Pascal Laugier, Rating: Pop, Rob Archer, September 2018, Taylor Hickson

New French Extremity director Pascal Laugier returns to the horror fold with a film that only just survives its own nasty streak.

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Blu-ray Review – Paul Verhoeven’s ‘Flesh + Blood’ is a muddy, grim medieval adventure

03/08/201805/08/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 1985, 2018, Action, Adventure, August 2018, Certificate: 18, Fernando Hilbeck, Flesh + Blood, Jack Thompson, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Paul Verhoeven, Rating: Pop, Ronald Lacey, Rutger Hauer, Susan Tyrrell, Tom Burlinson

Paul Verhoeven’s plague-riddled medieval adventure Flesh + Blood, starring Rutger Hauer and Jennifer Jason Leigh, is an uncomfortable watch.

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DVD Review – ‘Fanged Up’ sees Dapper Laughs try his luck with vampires

29/07/201829/07/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2018, Certificate: 18, Christian James, Comedy, Daniel O'Reilly, Danielle Harold, Ewen MacIntosh, Fanged Up, Horror, July 2018, Lauren Socha, Rating: Poop, Steven Berkoff, Stu Bennett, Vas Blackwood

His offensive comedy turned him into a national bad boy, but can Daniel O’Reilly shed his Dapper Laughs persona for Fanged Up?

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