September 2017

Featured Reviews 

Review – Gerald’s Game

16/10/2017 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2017, Bruce Greenwood, Carel Struycken, Carla Gugino, Certificate: 18, Gerald's Game, Henry Thomas, Horror, Mike Flanagan, Netflix, Rating: Pop, September 2017, Stephen King, Thriller

Hopping aboard the Stephen King bandwagon is Netflix, with the surprisingly tense and explosively gory Gerald’s Game.

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Review – Home Again

15/10/2017 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2017, Candice Bergen, Certificate: 12, Comedy, Hallie Meyers-Shyer, Home Again, Jon Rudnitsky, Lake Bell, Michael Sheen, Nat Wolff, Pico Alexander, Rating: Pop, Reese Witherspoon, Romcom, September 2017

Reese Witherspoon leaves a sweet romcom about a bizarre living situation, in a typically immaculate Hollywood house.

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Review – Goodbye Christopher Robin

13/10/2017 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2017, Alex Lawther, Biopic, Certificate: PG, Domhnall Gleeson, Drama, Goodbye Christopher Robin, Kelly Macdonald, Margot Robbie, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Rating: Poop, September 2017, Simon Curtis, Will Tilston

AA Milne gets the sentimental biopic treatment in buttoned-up Britflick Goodbye Christopher Robin, which is a sepia-toned postcard of a movie.

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Review – Flatliners

10/10/2017 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2017, Certificate: 15, Diego Luna, Ellen Page, Flatliners, Horror, James Norton, Kiefer Sutherland, Kiersey Clemons, Niels Arden Oplev, Nina Dobrev, Rating: Poop, September 2017, Thriller

The 90s shlocker Flatliners gets a remake absolutely no one was asking for and, crucially, that no one has gone to see.

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Review – Kingsman: The Golden Circle

07/10/2017 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2017, Action, Bruce Greenwood, Certificate: 15, Channing Tatum, Colin Firth, Comedy, Elton John, Emily Watson, Halle Berry, Hanna Alström, Jeff Bridges, Julianne Moore, Kingsman, Kingsman: The Golden Circle, Mark Strong, Matthew Vaughn, Pedro Pascal, Rating: Poop, September 2017, Taron Egerton

Characters return from the dead, robot dogs attack, Elton John is a piano-playing prisoner – and yet, Kingsman: The Golden Circle is still boring.

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Review – Victoria & Abdul

07/10/2017 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2017, Adeel Akhtar, Ali Fazal, Certificate: PG, Comedy, Drama, Dramedy, Eddie Izzard, Historical, Judi Dench, Michael Gambon, Paul Higgins, Rating: Pop, September 2017, Stephen Frears, Tim Pigott-Smith, Victoria & Abdul

Judi Dench makes for a wonderfully curmudgeonly Queen Victoria in the quaint, sweet-natured drama Victoria & Abdul.

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Review – mother!

02/10/2017 Tom Beasley 1 Comment 2017, Brian Gleeson, Certificate: 18, Darren Aronofsky, Domhnall Gleeson, Ed Harris, Horror, Javier Bardem, Jennifer Lawrence, Kristen Wiig, Michelle Pfeiffer, mother!, Rating: Pop, September 2017, Thriller

Darren Aronofsky has divided audiences with the bizarre horror film mother!, in which Jennifer Lawrence gives a ferociously committed performance.

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Review – American Assassin

30/09/2017 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2017, Action, American Assassin, Certificate: 18, David Suchet, Dylan O'Brien, Michael Cuesta, Michael Keaton, Rating: Poop, Sanaa Lathan, Scott Adkins, September 2017, Shiva Negar, Taylor Kitsch, Thriller

Maze Runner star Dylan O’Brien plunges into the world of terrorism with the exceedingly nasty action thriller American Assassin.

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Reviews 

Review – Killing Ground

30/09/201702/10/2017 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2017, Aaron Glenane, Aaron Pedersen, Certficate: 15, Damien Power, Harriet Dyer, Horror, Ian Meadows, Julian Garner, Killing Ground, Maya Stange, Rating: Pop, September 2017, Tiarnie Coupland

Aussie horror goes grim once again with Killing Ground, in which a newly engaged couple find terror greeting them in secluded woodland.

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DVD & Blu-ray Featured Reviews 

DVD Review – Capture Kill Release (2016)

28/09/2017 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2017, Brian Allen Stewart, Capture Kill Release, Certificate: 18, DVD, Farhang Ghajar, Horror, Jennifer Fraser, Jon Gates, Nick McAnulty, Rating: Poop, Rich Piatkowski, September 2017

Lo-fi horror meets thematic nastiness in Capture Kill Release, which is a chilling idea, executed with surprisingly little in the way of thrills.

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Review – Wind River

27/09/2017 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2017, Certificate: 15, Elizabeth Olsen, Gil Birmingham, Graham Greene, Jeremy Renner, Jon Bernthal, Kelsey Chow, Rating: Pop, September 2017, Taylor Sheridan, Wind River

Jeremy Renner and Elizabeth Olsen investigate a murder on a Native American reservation in Taylor Sheridan’s patient crime thriller Wind River.

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