Category Archives: Film Review

Luca (2021) Review

Posted on June 22, 2021 by Sam Sewell-Peterson

https://www.thefilmagazine.com/luca-2021-movie-review-pixar/ SSP

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‘The Hunchback of Notre Dame’ at 25 – Review

Posted on June 21, 2021 by Sam Sewell-Peterson

https://www.thefilmagazine.com/hunchback-of-notre-dame-25-year-review/ SSP

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Review in Brief: Nobody (2021)

Posted on June 17, 2021 by Sam Sewell-Peterson

More melancholy than TAKEN and far funnier than JOHN WICK, NOBODY doesn’t exactly lay new ground for films of its ilk but is really rather satisfying on its own terms. Hutch Mansell (Bob Odenkirk) is a suburban loser stuck in … Continue reading →

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Review in Brief: A Quiet Place Part II (2021)

Posted on June 7, 2021 by Sam Sewell-Peterson

Certainly less lean and no-nonsense than the first instalment and too reliant on stupid horror movie characters acting like stupid horror movie characters, A QUIET PLACE PART II is still a mostly solid follow-up. After a pretty breathtaking opening flashback … Continue reading →

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Review in Brief: Psycho Goreman (2020)

Posted on June 6, 2021 by Sam Sewell-Peterson

If it wasn’t for all the splattery gore, this would be a great feelgood Amblin-style kids adventure movie. As it is, PSYCHO GOREMAN is an unholy union between FLASH GORDON and the TOXIC AVENGER, which is admittedly odd but works … Continue reading →

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Review in Brief: Spiral: From the Book of Saw (2021)

Posted on June 2, 2021 by Sam Sewell-Peterson

Make no mistake, SPIRAL is a SAW movie, it’s not a bold new direction for the franchise. Bafflingly someone says at one point “Jigsaw didn’t target cops”, which makes you wonder how closely people have been watching the other films … Continue reading →

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Review in Brief: Oxygen (2021)

Posted on June 1, 2021 by Sam Sewell-Peterson

An amnesiac woman (Mélanie Laurent) wakes up in a sci-fi cryo pod and has to figure out why she is there and how to escape using her logic and an only intermittently helpful AI (Mathieu Amalric). There have been lots … Continue reading →

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Review in Brief: Army of the Dead (2021)

Posted on May 26, 2021 by Sam Sewell-Peterson

Zack Snyder is clearly relieved to be done with superheroes for now and has returned to the genre that broke him through: the zombie movie. Unfortunately ARMY OF THE DEAD is an over-stuffed and largely ponderous affair. The promising premise … Continue reading →

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Review in Brief: Willy’s Wonderland (2021)

Posted on May 24, 2021 by Sam Sewell-Peterson

WILLY’S WONDERLAND is proof positive that nobody needs to make a FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY’S movie now. Nicolas Cage is a silent janitor with borderline superhuman capabilities seemingly imbued by energy drinks fighting animatronic mascots possessed by a cannibal cult. … Continue reading →

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Review in Brief: The Reckoning (2020)

Posted on May 23, 2021 by Sam Sewell-Peterson

It’s hard to put your finger exactly on what went wrong with THE RECKONING. It’s director Neil Marshall firmly back in his comfort zone, hybridising horror with another well-trod genre (in this case a historical witchfinder film) and he still … Continue reading →

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