Freak Show: well-meaning but half-baked teen drama. By Fergus Henderson. Billy Bloom (Alex Lawther) is different. He is a preternaturally talented teen drag queen, fully out, transferred by his buttoned down father into the most aggressively hetero normative private school in North America. Amongst the mean girls and jocks of his
By J Simpson. Peter Jackson's impressive new documentary on The Great War, World War I, transports you across yawning expanses of time, for a first-hand glimpse of the atrocities committed therein. In a world of 24-hour news cycle and constantly refreshing social media feeds, it can be difficult to remember what
When thinking of a short horror film, one might imagine the directors cramming as many in-your-face scares as possible into what little time they have. However, the most haunting stuff of all is the dread that slowly but surely creeps up on you, the tension that mounts until you’re gripping
Venom enjoys another week at the top of the Official Film Chart, outselling its closest rival by over 16,000 copies on digital downloads alone. At Number 2, with 85% physical sales, is Jack Black’s The House With A Clock In Its Walls which climbs seven spots to take second place. Its 5,000 sales
I am usually quite dubious of biopics. Nothing makes me angry more than something ‘based on a true story’ and then when you read the facts, nothing adds up and some of the best bits are inputted for ‘dramatic effect’ (par example in The Other Boleyn Girl where suddenly Anne
