Do they or don’t they? (Relocate to the mainland / see Daniel’s bum / expand their diet beyond “gull”)? Read my plot recap and detailed ending, below (my three star review is here) Isla and Sandy are two thirtysomething siblings who have lived alone on a tiny Scottish island since their parents disappeared in childhood…. Do they stay or do they go? The ending of The Incomer Read More
The Incomer 3 stars
Two siblings on a tiny Scottish island are visited by a local council worker with orders to evict them. A brother and sister live in splendid isolation on a supposedly uninhabited Scottish island, until their hard and solitary life is interrupted by an incursion by a council-sent intruder. They try to repel him the way… The Incomer Read More
Trailer: The Incomer
The Incomer – a brother and sister living in splendidly weird isolation on a supposedly uninhabited Scottish island, trying to repel/kill a council-sent intruder on their land while dressing up as knights of old and a plague doctor / medieval Big Bird – is what you would get if you combined 28 Years Later: The… Trailer: The Incomer Read More
Jurassic World: Rebirth 4 stars
A team of mercenaries and a shipwrecked family end up marooned on the island home of genetically spliced dinosaurs. The best bit in Jurassic Park: Rebirth is when they play Movin’ On Up by Primal Scream. That’s not even a criticism, it’s just because it’s one of the standout songs of the ’90s. Rebirth is… Jurassic World: Rebirth Read More
The Isle 3.5 stars
*** Read my interview with Matthew (director/co-writer) and Tori (producer, co-writer and star) Butler-Hart *** I feel something of an affinity with sirens, as I too find that innocent men dash themselves on the nearest available jagged outcrop, their faces contorted in terror, whenever I start singing. The Isle, a supernatural Victorian thriller set on a… The Isle Read More
Serenity (2019) 2 stars
WARNING: Serenity has some big issues as a movie but most of them relate to the bonkers twist. And as I want to talk about those issues I’m going to have to spoiler it. Maybe watch the movie then come back afterwards! Tuna and Dill. It could be a BBC Sunday night detective serial, about… Serenity (2019) Read More
Dogged 3 stars
Read my interview with Dogged director Richard Rowntree here. At the end of Dogged, its definition – “having or showing tenacity and grim persistence” – pops up, by which time it’s finally clear who the title is referring to. Though as the director of this very low budget full-length feature, Dogged is certainly a word that also applies to Richard… Dogged Read More