Oct 6, 2023
BFI London Film Festival 2023
Shortcomings In a way, Shortcomings was the perfect film to open up the London Film Festival this year. More often than not, deciding...
Sep 11, 2023
Past Lives Review
Fate and destiny aren’t unfamiliar concepts in cinema. From William Friedkin‘s Sorcerer to the Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks blockbuster...
Aug 22, 2023
Minore (FrightFest 2023)
In a sense, it’s unfortunate that every modern monster movie will be compared to Jaws. Unless it’s a pre-existing franchise like Godzilla...
Aug 14, 2023
Talk to Me
It’s been a while since a new horror film has done anything genuinely interesting and scary with a supernatural concept. Get Out is...
Aug 14, 2023
Children of the Corn (2020) Review
One of the most infuriating trends in modern horror is the one where a new film will reuse the title of an old film for something that...
Aug 6, 2023
Pretty Red Dress Review
When Pretty Red Dress premiered at the BFI London Film Festival in October last year, it turned into a bit of a crossover event. With its...
Jul 4, 2023
Asteroid City
It’s incredible to think that it’s taken so long for Wes Anderson to work with Tom Hanks. There’s something about the neat but vibrant...
Jun 24, 2023
No Hard Feelings
I grew up with the Farrelly brothers making film after film that kids in my school would aggressively quote at one another. Dumb and...
Jun 20, 2023
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
During the seven years following the release of Raiders of the Lost Ark in 1981, three teenagers from Mississippi - Chris Strompolos,...
Jun 4, 2023
The Boogeyman Review
Once a year since 2020, Broadband Choices conduct ‘The Science of Scare Project’ to determine the scariest films of all time under the...
May 23, 2023
Beau is Afraid Review
Even though Beau is Afraid is only his third feature film, the space in which Ari Aster finds the horror in his stories is already as...
May 7, 2023
A Light Never Goes Out
As a kid, my dad always had this idea that, if I was ever going to realise the value of hard work, it needed to be by doing a shit job...
Apr 20, 2023
Evil Dead Rise Review
Of all the eras in the history of horror, we’re arguably in one of the least exciting on a creative level. The Monster Movies of the...
Apr 16, 2023
Suzume
The world is pretty heavy at the moment. We’re at the tail end of a pandemic, thirteen years into a Tory government, and the economy is...
Apr 9, 2023
Raging Bull
One of many classic collaborations between Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro, Raging Bull is perhaps the third or even fourth that the...
Apr 2, 2023
The Five Devils
The Five Devils comes to UK cinemas this week under the weight of expectation from the buzz it created at Cannes. With reports of a...
Nov 20, 2022
The Woman King
Erm. I suppose it’s nice that it exists from a certain point of view. There are loads of films from that period of history that are about...
Nov 13, 2022
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Given how low the bar is for morality and tastefulness in Hollywood and particularly in Disney, I went into this with expectations that...
Nov 9, 2022
Watcher
Somewhere between Rear Window and Rosemary’s Baby, but this time with a female writer/director behind it. That line should be enough to...
Nov 7, 2022
Barbarian
Surely one of the grossest and worst executed Chekhov’s guns in cinema history. The worst thing about Barbarian is that I actually found...