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The Monkey

An effective and entertaining feature that once again puts Perkins front and centre of the Horror genre as a master of his craft

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Gladiator II

Gladiator II seems to strip away so much of Scott’s own thematic and tone of emotive catharsis: be it morality, empathy and the like

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The Exorcism: Cinematic Healing

In his latest essay, Jak-Luke Sharp takes a look at the deeply personal and often haunting look at Cinematic Healing in Joshua John Miller’s The Exorcism

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Rebel Ridge

Rebel Ridge pushes and pushes to an inevitable climax and yet still feels refreshing

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Kneecap

Kneecap have successfully managed to educate, bring conversation and dialogue into the mainstream

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Alien: Romulus

Alien: Romulus is best described as a 'best-of' from the franchise

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Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F

Beverley Hills Cop: Axel F is a fine and occasionally good endeavour

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Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 1

Costner has put everything on the line to deliver a vision on-screen of not only America, the West but the power and immersion of cinema. Does he succeed?

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Boy Kills World

Boy Kills World is an engaging and entertaining rollercoaster ride of thrilling action

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Back to Black

Back to Black is a conscience cleaner from the very same people who damned this woman

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Psycho (1998): Dissecting the Auteur

In his latest essay, Jak-Luke Sharp takes a look at the maligned remake of Psycho to see what on earth director Gus Van Sant was doing

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Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes

Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes is a great entry into a surprising franchise that still feels it has more to give thematically and narratively

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Wicked Little Letters

Sharrock's Wicked Little Letters is another entry into her growing operandi of feel-good dramas

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I.S.S.

I.S.S. has no reason to care about or watch such a venture that feels so ordinary and flat

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Civil War

It’s truly hard work to find the thesis or abstract of Civil War from director Alex Garland

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Road House

Road House is nothing short of wild and genuinely perplexing to see develop

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Ricky Stanicky

Not only is Ricky Stanicky deeply unfunny but it’s also deeply unlikeable

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Immaculate

Go into Immaculate as naive and ignorant as possible for what might be the biggest surprise and most entertaining horror to be released in the last few years

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Damsel

Damsel is as empty and flat, and uninspired as a feature of this magnitude could possibly muster

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Bob Marley: One Love

One Love is flat, uninspired and, quite frankly, uninterested in developing a visual style from arguably one of the most striking iconographies in music