19th Sep2022

Frightfest 2022: ‘Raven’s Hollow’ Review

by Jim Morazzini

Stars: William Moseley, Kyle Rowe, Callum Woodhouse, Michael Guest, Mathis Landwehr, Oberon K.A. Adjepong, David Hayman, Kate Dickie, Callum McGowan, Melanie Zanetti | Written by Christopher Hatton, Chuck Reeves | Directed by Christopher Hatton 1830, just outside the town of Raven’s Hollow, five West Point cadets, Edgar Allan Poe (William Moseley; The Chronicles of Narnia, […]

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01st Nov2021

LFF 2021: ‘Shepherd’ Review

by Matthew Turner

Stars: Tom Hughes, Kate Dickie, Jamie Marie Leary, Greta Scacchi, Gaia Weiss | Written and Directed by Russell Owen Tom Hughes plays a grieving widower who accepts a job as a shepherd on a remote Scottish island in the third feature from Welsh writer-director Russell Owen. The film is strong on creepy atmosphere and features […]

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03rd May2021

‘Undergods’ Review

by Alain Elliott

Stars: Johann Myers, Géza Röhrig, Michael Gould, Hayley Carmichael, Ned Dennehy, Khalid Abdall, Eric Godon, Tanya Reynolds, Tadhg Murphy, Jan Bijvoet, Kate Dickie, Sam Louwyck, Adrian Rawlins | Written and Directed by Chino Moya I’ve mentioned it many times before but I really enjoy a good anthology movie. I’m not sure exactly why but from […]

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02nd Dec2020

‘Knuckledust’ VOD Review

by Kevin Haldon

Stars: Moe Dunford, Kate Dickie, Gethin Anthony, Alex Ferns, Jaime Winstone, Phil Davis, Sebastian Foucan | Written and Directed by James Kermack Right spoilers on my verdict out of the way first…. I keep saying a lot lately that we are smack dab in the middle of an independent movie surge in the UK, with […]

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01st Sep2020

Fantasia 2020: ‘Undergods’ Review

by Alain Elliott

Stars: Johann Myers, Géza Röhrig, Michael Gould, Hayley Carmichael, Ned Dennehy, Khalid Abdall, Eric Godon, Tanya Reynolds, Tadhg Murphy, Jan Bijvoet, Kate Dickie, Sam Louwyck, Adrian Rawlins | Written and Directed by Chino Moya I’ve mentioned it many times before but I really enjoy a good anthology movie. I’m not sure exactly why but from […]

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16th Jan2017

‘Prevenge’ kicks off UK screening tour tonight

by Phil Wheat

Prevenge is the brilliant and off-the-wall writing and directing debut feature by Alice Lowe (Sightseers). She wrote, starred in, and directed it whilst 7-8 months pregnant with her first child, who also appears in the film. Alice was one of the BIFA nominees for ‘best debut director’. Known for her work as a UK television […]

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27th Apr2016

‘Couple in a Hole’ VOD Review

by Mondo Squallido

Stars: Paul Higgins, Kate Dickie, Jérôme Kircher, Corinne Masiero | Written and Directed by Tom Geens John (Higgins) and Karen (Dickie) used to have it all. They had uprooted from Scotland with their son to a small, yet idyllic cottage in the beautiful Pyrenees Mountain range of France. However, tragedy struck by the way of […]

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22nd Feb2016

‘The Witch’ Review

by Gretchen Felker-Martin

Stars: Anya Taylor-Joy, Ralph Ineson, Kate Dickie, Harvey Scrimshaw, Ellie Grainger, Lucas Dawson, Bathsheba Garnett, Sarah Stephens, Julian Richings, Wahab Chaudhry | Written and Directed by Robert Eggers “Dost thou remember that I love thee?” The Witch is a searing emotional calamity of a film. Its scope is at once frighteningly vast and achingly intimate, its themes of societal […]

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06th Feb2014

‘For Those in Peril’ DVD Review

by Paul Metcalf

Stars: George MacKay, Kate Dickie, Michael Smiley, Nichola Burley, Brian McCardie, Jordan Young, Conor McCarron, Lewis Howden | Written and Directed by Paul Wright There are times when I’m reminded just why I love the British movie industry and the films they produce.  Over the last month I reviewed The Selfish Giant, and now I’ve […]

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04th Feb2014

‘Not Another Happy Ending’ Review

by Paul Metcalf

Stars: Karen Gillan, Stanley Weber, Iain De Caestecker, Amy Manson, Kate Dickie, Freya Mavor, Gary Lewis, Henry Ian Cusick | Written by David Solomons | Directed by John McKay When I decided to review Not Another Happy Ending the reason for this was pretty obvious, as a Doctor Who fan I was interested in a movie where […]

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24th Jul2013

EIFF 2013: ‘For Those in Peril’ Review

by Guest

Stars: Kate Dickie, Michael Smiley, George MacKay, Nichola Burley, Brian McCardie, Gavin Park, Jordan Young | Written and Directed by Paul Wright Review by Scott Clark of Cinehouse British cinema is great at taking quaint environments and turning them into Hell. We also have a penchant for misery and wasted lives, both of which you’ll find […]