Mystery

Featured Reviews 

Review – ‘The Little Stranger’ is an atmospheric tale of gothic dread

26/09/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2018, Certificate: 12, Charlotte Rampling, Domhnall Gleeson, Drama, Horror, Lenny Abrahamson, Liv Hill, Mystery, Rating: Pop, Ruth Wilson, September 2018, The Little Stranger, Tipper Seifert-Cleveland, Will Poulter

Lenny Abrahamson swaps the tight confines of Room for a huge, gothic mansion in new movie The Little Stranger.

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Featured Guest Posts Reviews 

Review – ‘A Simple Favour’ is a fun ride, despite its insanity

25/09/201826/10/2018 Luke Stevenson 0 Comment 2018, A Simple Favour, Anna Kendrick, Bashir Salahuddin, Blake Lively, Certificate: 15, Comedy, Henry Golding, Linda Cardellini, Mystery, Paul Feig, Rating: Pop, Rupert Friend, September 2018, Thriller

Paul Feig’s mystery thriller, starring Anna Kendrick and Blake Lively, is a mess of tangled plots and murky characters.

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Reviews VOD 

VOD Review – Serial killer tale ‘Hangman’ has a certain clumsy charm

30/05/201830/05/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2018, Al Pacino, Brittany Snow, Certificate: 15, Crime, Hangman, Johnny Martin, June 2018, Karl Urban, Mystery, Rating: Pop, Sarah Shahi, Thriller

Hangman is a direct-to-VOD thriller starring an Oscar-winning actor in Al Pacino, but it’s almost certainly better than what you’re expecting.

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DVD & Blu-ray Featured Reviews 

Blu-ray Review – Supernatural thriller ‘Cure’ is a beguiling tale of murder and hypnosis

25/04/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 1997, 2018, Anna Nakagawa, April 2018, Blu-ray, Certificate: 15, Crime, Cure, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Kōji Yakusho, Masato Hagiwara, Mystery, Rating: Pop, Thriller, Tsuyoshi Ujiki

Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s involving, atmospheric thriller Cure weaves a tale of supernatural elements at play in a string of disparate murders.

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DVD & Blu-ray Reviews 

Blu-ray Review – Wind River (2017)

22/01/201824/01/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2017, 2018, Blu-ray, Certificate: 15, Elizabeth Olsen, Gil Birmingham, Graham Greene, January 2018, Jeremy Renner, Jon Bernthal, Kelsey Chow, Mystery, Rating: Pop, Taylor Sheridan, Thriller, Wind River

Taylor Sheridan’s reservation murder-mystery Wind River is out now in the Blu-ray and it gifts Jeremy Renner his best role in years.

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Featured Reviews 

Review – Murder on the Orient Express

14/11/2017 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2017, Certificate: 12, Crime, Daisy Ridley, Derek Jacobi, Drama, Johnny Depp, Josh Gad, Judi Dench, Kenneth Branagh, Leslie Odom Jr, Lucy Boynton, Michelle Pfeiffer, Murder on the Orient Express, Mystery, November 2017, Olivia Colman, Penelope Cruz, Rating: Pop, Thriller, Tom Bateman, Willem Dafoe

Kenneth Branagh – and more importantly, his moustache – board a luxury train, where a murder promptly takes place in this Agatha Christie adaptation.

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Review – The Limehouse Golem

18/09/2017 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2017, Bill Nighy, Certificate: 15, Crime, Daniel Mays, Douglas Booth, Eddie Marsan, Henry Goodman, Horror, Juan Carlos Medina, María Valverde, Morgan Watkins, Mystery, Olivia Cooke, Rating: Pop, Sam Reid, September 2017, The Limehouse Golem, Thriller

The writer of Kick-Ass weaves a lurid, flamboyant yarn of murder in the music halls of Victorian London with The Limehouse Golem.

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Review – My Cousin Rachel

26/06/2017 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2017, Andrew Knott, Certificate: 12, Drama, Holliday Grainger, Iain Glen, June 2017, My Cousin Rachel, Mystery, Poppy Lee Friar, Rachel Weisz, Rating: Pop, Roger Michell, Sam Claflin

Rachel Weisz offers Sam Claflin some questionable cups of tea in mysterious Daphne du Maurier adaptation My Cousin Rachel.

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Featured Guest Posts Reviews 

Review – Inferno

15/11/201616/11/2016 Luke Stevenson 0 Comment 2016, Ben Foster, Certificate: 12, Dan Brown, Felicity Jones, Inferno, Irrfan Khan, Mystery, October 2016, Omar Sy, Rating: Poop, Ron Howard, Sidse Babett Knudsen, Thriller, Tom Hanks

Dan Brown’s symbologist is back and just as ridiculous as ever.

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Reviews 

Review – Blackhat

20/03/2015 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2015, Blackhat, Certificate: 15, Chris Hemsworth, February 2015, Leehom Wang, Michael Mann, Mystery, Rating: Poop, Thriller, Viola Davis, Wei Tang

Review of 2015 cyber thriller Blackhat, starring Chris Hemsworth and Viola Davis.

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Reviews 

Review – Gone Girl

06/10/2014 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2014, Adaptation, Ben Affleck, Carrie Coon, Certificate: 18, David Fincher, Gone Girl, Kim Dickens, Mystery, Neil Patrick Harris, October 2014, Rating: Pop, Rosamund Pike, Thriller, Tyler Perry

Review of 2014 mystery thriller Gone Girl, directed by David Fincher and starring Ben Affleck and Rosamund Pike.

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