Thomas’s Top Ten of 2017
In a year I expected superheroes to dominate, I found it was the horror genre that rose to the occasion.…
Author: Thomas Simpson
Writer, filmmaker, friendly neighbourhood storyteller. Believes Jaws to be the greatest film ever made and will go down swinging with that belief.
The Toolbox Murders (1978)
Notorious video nasty The Toolbox Murders looks to find a new fanbase as it lands on Blu-Ray this week. Modern…
Office Christmas Party
After the disappointment that was last year’s Bad Santa 2, Office Christmas Party looked to bring some laughs accompanied with…
American Assassin
The trailer for American Assassin didn’t fill me with optimism. Aside from showing a condensed yet complete version of the…
All Eyez On Me
Fresh off the success of N.W.A biographical film, Straight Outta Compton, the life of Tupac Shakur is finally brought to…
Happy Death Day
Slasher films for the most part follow a strict criteria of guidelines. Scream famously lampooned these guidelines as it reinvented…
The Mountain Between Us
Romance sells, audiences love the predictability of the plot and expect the clichés presented to them. The Mountain Between Us…
Breathe
Andy Serkis is a wonderful actor best known for being in front of the camera, albeit in a mostly unrecognisable…
Kingsman: The Golden Circle
Not all heroes wear capes as Mark Vaughan’s Kingsman: The Secret Service showed us in 2015. Adapted from the comic…
The Despicable Me 3
After letting the Minions take the spotlight in their first solo film, Gru (Steve Carrell) returns to the forefront in…