If you’re after gore, Hatchet 4: Victor Crowley has it in buckets. There are many, many deaths and the camera lingers lovingly over them, like the BBC filming Nigella Lawson seductively licking a spoon after mixing a Victoria sponge. Limbs are hacked then pulled away from bodies still partially attached by gristle. Heads are caved in… Hatchet 4: Victor Crowley Read More
Leatherface 3 stars
As a mother I’ve got to agree with one of the life (death?) lessons in Leatherface – never diss someone’s mom. This is a prequel to the 1974 film The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and it has some good moments, though it never reaches the heights of that classic. The central metaphor of the teen shedding… Leatherface Read More
Prevenge – 1 Minute Video Review Includes Video 4 stars
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Prevenge 4 stars
Sometimes it feels like our babies, even before birth, are intent on taking over everything, our bodies and our minds. Factor in the increasing number of ways mothers-to-be are told their needs must always be secondary to those of their unborn children and it’s no surprise that we’ve now got a film which pushes this idea to the max…. Prevenge Read More
Black Christmas 4 stars
It’s nearly the end of term and the sorority students are finishing up with school and getting ready to head home for the holidays; though not everyone has a warm family to go back to. The brittle, heavy drinking Barb (Margot Kidder) is having difficult phone calls with her mother in the hall, in… Black Christmas Read More