Reviews & Rants, Films for You?

  1. Send Help
    [5/february/2026] Score: 8/10
    So there I was thinking this would be a kind of office politics drama turned maybe romcom and find I’m sitting through a blackly comic drama of growing insanity and intensity and she really lets all her suffering at the hands of man loose on him.
    Laugh at the suffering, cry with tears of laughter as it gets madder and madder.
    Verdict: Help yourself to this one.
  2. Shelter
    [30/january/2026] Score: 6/10
    Jason Statham does what he does the very best – saving a child from dark forces of corruption and conspiracy, and there are so many of those conspiracies in the world today he’s got his hands full saving the world.
    But he does it as well as we can all expect.
    Verdict: Take shelter and accept Jason’s protection.
  3. Mercy
    [24/january/2026] Score: 7/10
    Came into this with little hope, just an interesting generic Scifi procedural cop story; but the twists and turns racking up the tension and the sense of a deeper exploration of the future role of AI in our society shows this to be a more thoughtful story than first impressions.
    Yes, there are glaring holes and loose ends in the story and how the investigation is supposed to work, but these are just small distractions from the interesting plot.
    Verdict: Intelligent.
  4. 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
    [17/january/2026] Score: 7/10
    Bleak horror/drama following from the previous film and focussing on the story of the Bone Temple and the lone man struggling with the horror all around without, almost, loosing his mind in the process as, perhaps, he comes upon a cure to madness.
    A limits cast take a brutal load of horror born of the despair in a post-apocalypse, with only a lone figure providing the smallest glimpse of hope for the future.
    Verdict: Brutal Brilliant.
  5. Giant
    [13/january/2026] Score: 8/10
    Biography of the rise and stall(?) of the world champion boxer from the little English city of Sheffield – Prince Naseem “Naz” Hamed, his discovery as a child, the excessive enthusiasm through years of development and promotion, the drive, training, power and world-wide success, until it all fell apart.
    Mesmerising in revealing all the passion and power that went into it all and then the near-tragedy of such a fall.
    Verdict: Broken giant.
  6. Hamnet
    [10/january/2026] Score: 10/10
    Jessie Buckley owns this film and her story, of love, marriage, birth and death in a small English village holds a grip on you despite the slow, gentle progress of the entire tale. Based fictionally on the life of William Shakespeare and the possible source of the writing of the world-famous tragedy of Hamlet this takes a different, non-dramatic approach to the heart and soul that might have lain behind inspiring it and changing the world in the process.
    Verdict: Soulful.
  7. Marty Supreme
    [1/january/2026] Score 6/10
    Hustler walks over everyone in his ambition to succeed despite all the odds against him. A brilliant set of performances but not a golden story of a good man of integrity, this is a dirty little struggle for survival, just like the real world, unvarnished with any gloss and little redeeming features, except at the very end as if it was tacked on for the audiences.
    Verdict: Supreme Drama.