The Toxic Avenger
Troma Entertainment is known for their crude humour, overblown violence, and gratuitous nudity, and, whilst their crowning achievement, 1984’s The Toxic Avenger, features all of the studio’s hallmarks, it is…
Movies
Jupiter
The gradually-unfolding, coming-of-age drama of Lea, a young woman trying to find her own path in life, as her parents turn to a cult in the wake of a perceived…
Jules
When we think of science fiction drama, we probably envisage the spectacle of films like Arrival or Interstellar. In contrast, Jules plays more like a cosy drama that the usual…
Molli and Max in the Future
Set in some distant, anachronistic future, Molli and Max meet by chance in space, and spend the next 12 years plotting a course through space, dimensions, careers and romance. Taking…
Paul
Frequent collaborators Simon Pegg and Nick Frost team up again to star as a pair of science fiction fans visiting the USA for the San Diego Comic-Con, followed by a…
Drive Angry
When a film opens with a character escaping from Hell in a 1963 Buick, it should be obvious that we’re in for a wild ride. Nicholas Cage stars as Milton,…
Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey
When the copyright on A.A. Milne’s Winnie-the-Pooh characters lapsed and plunged the characters into the public domain, it didn’t take long for the announcement of a horror-themed adaptation to cause…
Zapped
What I’d suspected may have been a cleaned-up remake of the 1980s sex comedy Zapped! was actually a presumably-made for TV batch of Disney silliness, which may appeal to young…
Pray for Morning
A typical 2000s ‘teenage’ horror, in which a local tradition for high school graduates is to sneak into the abandoned Royal Crescent Hotel, the scene of the murder of a…
Skinford
A Cockney gangster film that plays like the TV series Forever, if it had been directed by Takashi Miike. We meet small-time conman Jimmy ‘Skinny’ Skinford as he’s being forced…