Certificate: 15 Running Time: 103 mins UK Distributor: Lionsgate UK Release Date: 22 September 2023 WHO’S IN EXPEND4BLES? Jason Statham, Sylvester Stallone, Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson, Megan Fox, Dolph Lundgren, Tony Jaa, Iko Uwais, Randy Couture, Jacob Scipio, Levy...
Accused is a solid home invasion thriller that executes many of the familiar conventions extremely well thanks to director Philip Barantini’s heavily tense filmmaking, while the thoughtful script plays into relevant discussions surrounding online misinformation, especially those with hateful and dangerous agendas.
It Lives Inside is a horror with intriguing concepts and themes, and occasionally brings a neatly creepy atmosphere to the proceedings, but it sets itself unnecessary restrictions by following a familiar template within a budget that clearly prevents the filmmakers from exploring its concept more.
Certificate: U Running Time: 92 mins UK Distributor: Vertigo Releasing UK Release Date: 15 September 2023 WHO’S IN RALLY ROAD RACERS? Jimmy O. Yang, J.K. Simmons, Chloe Bennett, Lisa Lu, Sharon Horgan, Catherine Tate, John Cleese, Naomi McDonald, Rebecca Yeo WHO’S...
A Haunting in Venice is the strongest yet in director/actor Kenneth Branagh’s series of Agatha Christie’s Poirot adaptations, leaning into a refreshing horror tone that the filmmaker executes engagingly, and along with a committed ensemble cast leads the charge as a different kind of Poirot than we’re used to seeing from the actor.
Love Life is an understated family drama that occasionally struggles to completely hold the attention of the viewer with its overly gentle and light nature, but enough of the emotional beats leave a strong impression to convey a quietly powerful story of grief.
Certificate: 12A Running Time: 92 mins UK Distributor: Universal Pictures UK Release Date: 8 September 2023 WHO’S IN MY BIG FAT GREEK WEDDING 3? Nia Vardalos, John Corbett, Louis Mandylor, Elena Kampouris, Lainie Kazan, Andrea Martin, Gia Carides, Joey Fatone, Maria...
The Nun II is an unnecessary sequel to the horror spin-off that adds almost nothing to the main story, and despite valiant filmmaking efforts it isn’t scary or compelling enough to be as memorable as other, better films in the Conjuring universe.
El Conde is an original and entertaining horror-satire that plays around with familiar vampire conventions, to where it can be considered a love letter to that type of gothic horror, and takes aim at the monstrous legacy of Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet with a sharp commentary on the normalisation of fascism that is, in some aspects, more terrifying than blood-sucking activity.
Certificate: 12A Running Time: 124 mins UK Distributor: All the Anime UK Release Date: 30 August 2023 WHO’S IN THE FIRST SLAM DUNK? (ENGLISH VERSION) Paul Castro Jr., Jonah Scott, Aleks Le, Ben Balmaceda, Aaron Goodson, Abby Espiritu, Zeno Robinson, Yong Yea, Brent...