The backdrop of a quarantined Mexico, still partially infested with aliens, is the setting for a slightly old-fashioned drama that recalls the films of Frank Capra as a gentle romance unfolds between a mismatched and slightly antagonistic couple.
Review by Alex Fitch
The second serialised TV adaptation of the manga series Full Metal Alchemist starts in media res with cyborg brothers Edward and Alphonse Elric helping the military stop a super-villain with ice powers from terrorising a city.
Review by Alex Fitch
The film starts like any charming but simplistic children’s TV show but soon turns into a surrealistic fantasy with roots in the Victorian silent era.
Review by Alex Fitch
As Christopher Nolan’s Inception is all about dreams and the persistence of memory, it’s entirely fitting that my feelings about the film changed as time elapsed after it ended.
Review by Alex Fitch
Splice is an update of the Frankenstein story through the lens of modern fears of genetic modification.
Review by Alex Fitch
City of the Living Dead vs A Lizard in a Woman’s Skin
Review by Doc Horror
Even though Girl Number 9 may toy with the iconography of Saw, Moran is very much continuing the tradition of psychological terror of Dahl and James, particularly when the serial is watched as a whole 30-minute episode rather than the six daily instalments.
Review by Alex Fitch
The film opens in spectacular manner with the cubist vivisection of an unnamed character, following which we meet five other people wandering through the claustrophobic maze.
Review by Alex Fitch
The Sky Crawlers is a languid tale of young fighter pilots in a near future that evokes both real world conflicts, such as the 1940s War in the Pacific, and fictional ones, such as the perpetual warfare in George Orwell’s 1984.
Review by Alex Fitch
This new adaptation is both a reimagining of, and sequel to, the Alice novels.
Review by Alex Fitch