Movie Reviews

1 June 2021

REVIEW: The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It

When horror franchises reach their eighth instalment overall, they’ve usually soured and begin to lack in quality and value. Fortunately, that curse is something that the Conjuring universe appears to ...

26 May 2021

Review: Spiral: From the Book of Saw

Earlier this month (May 2021), fans of the Saw movie franchise finally got the opportunity to see the series rebooted completely, when Spiral: From the Book of Saw hit the ...

26 May 2021

REVIEW: Zack Snyder’s Army of the Dead on Netflix

Army of the Dead is director Zack Snyder’s latest cinematic venture, and it’s safe to say that everyone is excited to watch this one! After his success with DC’s Justice ...
20 May 2021

Review: Godzilla Vs. Kong

Godzilla Vs. Kong has been a long time coming, and since we’ve had solo films for both monsters, it was high time the Earth’s two massive titans met. Here, we ...
15 May 2021

Review: Brightburn on Netflix

New to Netflix, but originally released in 2019, Brightburn seems to answer the question many fans of DC have wondered; what would it be like if Superman was evil? While ...
10 May 2021

Review: Mortal Kombat doesn’t need a tournament to shine

It’s fair to say that movies based on video game franchises have a less-than-impressive history. The majority of the time, critics and fans are agreed in their mostly-negative opinions of ...
1 May 2021

Review: Things Heard and Seen on Netflix

Recently, Netflix has gained some pretty good titles to offer its customers, including Love and Monsters starring Dylan O’Brien. On April 30th 2021, Things Heard and Seen made its way ...
21 April 2021

Review: Wild Mountain Thyme

A film about the selling of a farm after a loved one’s passing may not seem like the movie you needed to see; and you’d be right. Wild Mountain Thyme ...
17 April 2021

Review: Love and Monsters on Netflix

Love and Monsters follows a determined Joel (Dylan O’Brien) on his quest to get his girl back after seven long years; all he has to do is walk over 80 ...
10 April 2021

Review: Did Netflix’s Thunder Force live up to expectations?

What did our staff writer, Melissa Allen, think of the female-led superhero movie Thunder Force? This new film starring Octavia Spencer and Melissa McCarthy has had many people interested in it ...
26 March 2021

Review: Is Wonder Woman 1984 as good as it was promised to be?

Warning: Spoilers! DC hasn’t given us the best films, we can all probably agree on that. With exceptions like The Dark Knight trilogy, Wonder Woman, and Zack Snyder’s Justice League, ...
23 March 2021

Review: Zack Snyder’s Justice League is a triumph

Whether you enjoyed the Joss Whedon-butchered Justice League or not, most people could agree on one thing: it just didn’t make sense. So much of Zack Snyder’s story had been ...
11 February 2021

Greenland review: Amazon Prime Video's new film is one to watch

Disaster movies are not all copies of one another, but they are cut from the same cloth, so to speak. There are explosions, people dying and lots of close calls ...
7 January 2021

The Midnight Sky review: Our Film of the Week series continues...

The start of a new year felt like the perfect time to watch a new movie. With this year promising to be rather great in terms of movie and TV ...
4 January 2021

Review: The Minimalists: Less Is Now

Less Is Now is the latest (and we hope not the last) documentary offering from The Minimalists, aka Ryan Nicodemus and Joshua Fields Millburn.  Released on New Year’s Day and ...
10 December 2020

The Film of the Week series returns! This week: Room

The Film of the Week (FOTW) series is back! This time, every week will have some kind of theme; one week may be 80s films, another week may be a ...
28 October 2020

Female First reviews...Hubie Halloween

Follow Melissa @melissajournal Adam Sandler is somewhat of a controversial actor. It seems that people are split between love and hate for this Hollywood star, but it must be said that ...
24 February 2020

Review: Joker on Blu-ray

Arthur Fleck isn’t a name comic book fans are familiar with. That’s because in creating new movie Joker, director/writer Todd Phillips and co-writer Scott Silver decided that they would be ...
17 February 2020

Review: Gemini Man on Blu-ray

Opening with an intense and confronting sequence, director Ang Lee sets audiences up for a thrill-ride that doesn’t always deliver, but does enough to entertain with Gemini Man. Henry Brogan ...
27 January 2020

Review: Downton Abbey: The Movie

The Royals are visiting Downton and it’s all hands-on deck to get the house ready for their arrival. However, to the surprise of all the staff, the Royals travel with ...
3 December 2019

The Nightingale is a tough watch carried by its stellar writing and cast of performers [REVIEW]

The Nightingale isn’t a nice, fun watch. There are moments from the off that will leave you feeling disgusted and distraught, as some of the members of the British Army ...

22 July 2019

What Men Want is a fun, if predictable comedy adventure

Directed by Adam Shankman and with the brilliant Taraji P. Henson (Empire) in the leading role, What Men Want looked set to be a success upon its announcement. A modern-day ...

28 May 2019

Eating Animals will change the way you look at your food forever [REVIEW]

Based on the best-selling book by, Eating Animals comes from director Christopher Quinn, and is produced and narrated by Natalie Portman. Delving into the wide world of corporate factory farming, ...

4 December 2018

Amá review: Lorna Tucker's latest documentary is one of the most important films of 2018

Despite our knowledge of horrific civil rights abuses that are still happening all over the world, it's impossible to get over the shock of learning that medieval methods of population ...