Film Reviews & Movie News

Film Reviews & Movie News

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Film Reviews & Movie News episodes

  • Film Reviews: Mortal Kombat, I Used To Be Normal, Wrong Turn, A Ghost Waits

    Mortal Kombat - MMA fighter Cole Young seeks out Earth's greatest champions in order to stand against the enemies of Outworld in a high stakes battle for the universe.

    I Used To Be Normal: A Boyband Fangirl Story - Four diverse women had their lives dramatically changed by their love of a boy band - Backstreet Boys, One Direction, Take That and The Beatles.

    Wrong Turn - Friends hiking the Appalachian Trail are confronted by 'The Foundation', a community of people who have lived in the mountains for hundreds of years.

    A Ghost Waites - A man's job requires him to clean a house, which turns out to be haunted. In the course of trying to exorcise the ghost, he falls in love with her.

    45 min
  • Film Reviews: Nomadland, Without Remorse, The Mitchells vs The Machines, Let Him Go, Stray

    Nomadland - A woman in her sixties who, after losing everything in the Great Recession, embarks on a journey through the American West, living as a van-dwelling modern-day nomad.

    The Mitchells vs The Machines - A quirky, dysfunctional family's road trip is upended when they find themselves in the middle of the robot apocalypse and suddenly become humanity's unlikeliest last hope.

    Without Remorse - John Clark, a Navy SEAL, goes on a path to avenge his wife's murder only to find himself inside of a larger conspiracy.

    Let Him Go - A retired sheriff and his wife, grieving over the death of their son, set out to find their only grandson.

    Stray - The world of Zeytin, a stray dog living life on the streets of Istanbul.

    47 min
  • Film Reviews: Black Bear, Me You Madness, Stardust, Dreamland

    Black Bear - A filmmaker at a creative impasse seeks solace from her tumultuous past at a rural retreat, only to find that the woods summon her inner demons in intense and surprising ways.


    Me You Madness - A young thief cases an architectural dream house in Malibu, not realizing it is the home of an eccentric female serial killer.


    Stardust - A young David Bowie, a star in the UK but unknown in the US, takes a promotional tour in 1971. While touring the country he begins to take inspiration from many different areas. These would inspire the invention of his alter ego Ziggy Stardust.


    Dreamland - A teenager's adventures as a bounty hunter take an unexpected twist.

    54 min
  • Film Reviews: Promising Young Woman, The Reckoning, Superintelligence, Come Away

    Promising Young Woman - A young woman, traumatized by a tragic event in her past, seeks out vengeance against those who crossed her path.


    The Reckoning - Evelyn, a young widow haunted by the recent suicide of her husband Joseph, is falsely accused of being a witch by her Landlord after she rejects his advances.


    Superintelligence - When an all-powerful Superintelligence chooses to study average Carol Peters, the fate of the world hangs in the balance. As the A.I. decides to enslave, save or destroy humanity, it's up to Carol to prove that people are worth saving.


    Come Away - When their eldest brother dies, Peter and Alice seek to save their parents from despair until they are forced to choose between home and imagination, setting the stage for their iconic journeys into Wonderland and Neverland.

    48 min
  • Film Reviews: Palm Springs, Rose, Come True, Synchronic

    Palm Springs – Stuck in a time loop, two wedding guests develop a budding romance while living the same day over and over again.

    Rose: A Love Story – Gripped by a violent, terrifying illness, Rose lives in seclusion with her husband, but the arrival of a stranger shatters the fragile refuge they have built.

    Come True – A teenage runaway takes part in a sleep study that becomes a nightmarish descent into the depths of her mind and a frightening examination of the power of dreams.

    Synchronic – Two New Orleans paramedics’ lives are ripped apart after they encounter a series of horrific deaths linked to a designer drug with bizarre, otherworldly effects.

    49 min
  • Film Reviews: The Mauritanian, Chaos Walking, The Dissident, The Haunted Hotel, Soul

    The Mauritanian – Mohamedou Ould Slahi fights for freedom after being detained and imprisoned without charge by the U.S. Government for years.

    Chaos Walking – A dystopian world where there are no women and all living creatures can hear each other’s thoughts in a stream of images, words, and sounds called Noise.

    The Dissident – When Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi disappears in Istanbul, his fiancée and dissidents around the world piece together the clues to a murder and expose a global cover up.

    The Haunted Hotel – Eight tales of ghostly encounters through the decades, manifesting amid the ruins of a once grand English hotel.

    Soul – After landing the gig of a lifetime, a New York jazz pianist suddenly finds himself trapped in a strange land between Earth and the afterlife.

    50 min
  • Film Reviews: Six Minutes To Midnight, Ammonite, Wonder Woman 1984, The Eight Hundred

    Six Minutes To Midnight - In the summer of 1939, influential Nazi’s send their daughters to a finishing school in an English seaside town to learn the language and become ambassadors. A teaching working at the school tries to raise the alarm but the British authorities believe he is the problem.


    Ammonite - 1840s England, acclaimed but overlooked fossil hunter Mary Anning and a young woman sent to convalesce by the sea develop an intense relationship, altering both of their lives forever.


    Wonder Woman 1984 - A mysterious wish giving rock may hold the power for Oil barren Max Lord to take over the world. Diana Prince/Wonder Woman is looking to stop him but first she has to deal with a new enemy – The Cheetah.


    The Eight Hundred - In 1937, eight hundred Chinese soldiers fought under siege from a warehouse in the middle of the Shanghai battlefield, completely surrounded by the Japanese Army.


    45 min
  • Film Reviews: Zack Snyder's Justice League, Creation Stories, Glitterbox Presents Where Love Lives, War With Grandpa

    Zack Snyder's Justice League - Zack Snyder's definitive director's cut of Justice League. Determined to ensure Superman's ultimate sacrifice was not in vain, Bruce Wayne aligns forces with Diana Prince with plans to recruit a team of metahumans to protect the world from an approaching threat of catastrophic proportions.


    Creation Stories - Biopic of infamous Creation Records label head Alan McGee; and of how one written-off young Glaswegian upstart rose to irrevocably change the face of British culture.


    Glitterbox Presents Where Love Lives - A documentary exploring music's enduring power to manifest diverse and inclusive community, to accept and embrace, to liberate, even to save lives.


    War With Grandpa - Upset that he has to share the room he loves with his grandfather, Peter decides to declare war in an attempt to get it back.

    48 min
  • Film Reviews: Locked Down, The Columnist, Children of the Sea, The Craft: Legacy

    Locked Down - A couple attempts a high-risk, high-stakes jewellery heist at a department store during the London lockdown.


    The Columnist - Columnist and author Femke Boot is flooded with anonymous nasty messages and death threats on social media. One day she has enough and decides to take revenge.


    The Craft: Legacy - A group of high school students form a coven of witches.


    Children of the Sea - A young girl is drawn into a mystery involving sealife around the world, in which two mysterious boys are somehow involved.

    44 min
  • Film Reviews: Coming 2 America, Raya And The Last Dragon, Pixie, Jungleland, White Riot

    Coming 2 America - The African monarch Akeem learns he has a long-lost son in the United States and must return to Queens to meet his unexpected heir and build a relationship with his son.


    Raya And The Last Dragon - In a realm known as Kumandra, a re-imagined Earth inhabited by an ancient civilization, a warrior named Raya is determined to find the last dragon.


    Pixie - To avenge her mother's death, Pixie masterminds a heist but must flee across Ireland from gangsters, take on the patriarchy and also choose her own destiny.


    Jungleland - Two brothers try to escape their circumstances by travelling across the country for a no holds barred boxing match that becomes a fight for their lives.


    White Riot - A documentary about the forming of Rock Against Racism. An organisation that took a stand against the National Front in the UK via the means of multicultural music events and countrywide newsletters.

    51 min

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Mark Searby joins Stewart Pink for Film Reviews and Movie News discussing the big movie news of the week and lifting the curtain on all the latest cinema, DVD and on-demand film releases.