Reviews & Rants, Films for You?

  1. Mother’s Pride
    [7/march/2026] Score: 6/10
    A quaint English pub in a quaint English village in perpetual summer fights a David v. Goliath battle against the pub across the street to redeem its position in the village. And all we’ve seen umpteen times before and makes a great break from the screaming shouting matches of monsters and magic-powered movies.
    If you need a calm walk in the countryside of your imagination, with absolutely no strain to think about anything serious, then this generic formula has been brewed specially for you.
    Verdict: Quaint.
  2. The Bride!
    [6/march/2026] Score: 8/10
    A new and dramatic twist on Frankenstein, his mother Mary Shelly and the feminist movement, as the roaring 1930s take a ranging furious assault on male dominance and female anger at their dark repression, until takes a hand and creates a new monster to roar across the ages.
    It’s this turn of story and tale, the sudden hauntings and challenges, the sparks of anger and oppression that are inflamed through male brutality and unleashed in female fury as The Bride fights for her true identity.
    This is not the conventional style of any Frankenstein monster movie, with the emphasis on monster. Here everything has been tampered and twisted by how events might have unfolded from the monster’s first birth through to his desire for a bride and the consequences as he tried to find love and companionship.
    Verdict: She Who Liberates.
  3. Hoppers
    [28/february/2026] Score: 7/10
    Sweet little Disney animation all about cute talking animals and the rare few humans who love and want to protect them from all the bad humans. So nothing new there, but plenty of brisk fun along the way. With its strong environmental theme it drives, hammers and rams the message home – cute animals can save you. And they’re edible.
    Verdict: Pond rules still apply.
  4. Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die
    [26/february,/2026] Score: /810
    Another time traveller tries to come back and warn a dumb group of dumb Americans that THEY, and THEY ALONE can save the entire world, of America, from the looming horror of AI and social media dominating your lives to the point where you don’t even notice the approaching disaster, scroll down to the bottom, it’s in there somewhere.
    This is the twisted dark comedic version of “12 Monkeys” for those, many nowadays, who can’t take the gritty original.
    Verdict: Please come scroll through this one, the world depends on your giggles.
  5. Cold Storage
    [20/february/2026] Score: 7/10
    Only three people stand in the way of American being turned into alien bio-soup, a cranky old soldier with a creaky old back and two night shift workers in an old storage unit which has suddenly developed a bit of a beep and ooze.
    And that’s the silly fun of the latest wonderful version of exactly how the zombie apocalypse might begin in Americaland.
    Verdict: Wash your hands.
  6. Crime 101
    [11/february/2026] Score: 6/10
    Somewhat glossy, gritty, cool LA procedural crime story mixed with social commentary about poverty, inequalities and nuts in California, plus a small smidgen of “finding love” and all that.
    Not as dramatically memorable as other hard core LA-based crime dramas, but passes the time.
    Verdict: A small steal.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. 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.
  13. 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.