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The Devil All The Time: the devil is in the detail

20th September 2020 by Sarah Cartland Leave a Comment

Warning: full of spoilers, fire and brimstone. Well, spoilers anyway. My review is here. Character posters are at the bottom of the page. Despite the melodrama, multiple dead bodies and spiders, The Devil All The Time finishes – eventually – on a note that is both cathartic and hopeful. Arvin does survive. The ending is… The Devil All The Time: the devil is in the detail Read More

Filed Under: Film Articles Tagged With: america, murder, religion, serial killers, vietnam war, ww2

Unhinged: what’s it driving at?

25th August 2020 by Sarah Cartland

Oh come on, we’ve been in lockdown since March, I’m allowed a pun. Note: This is very spoilery so if you don’t want to know who dies, or how, drive off into the sunset now, with your doors firmly locked. If you want to read my – yes, four star – review, it’s here. A… Unhinged: what’s it driving at? Read More

Filed Under: Film Articles Tagged With: caren pistorius, driving, murder, road rage, Russell Crowe

Unhinged 4 stars☆☆☆☆☆

24th August 2020 by Sarah Cartland Leave a Comment

After a confrontation with an unstable man at an intersection, a woman becomes the target of his rage. We used to say hell is other people but now hell happens in full view of other people. In Unhinged, drawn-out, cold-blooded murder is committed in front of several witnesses, all of whom prefer to record rather… Unhinged Read More

Filed Under: Film Reviews Tagged With: cars, murder, rage, road rage, stalking

The Big Ugly trailer: Vinnie Jones’s gangland enforcer strikes oil, but has he met his match?

12th June 2020 by Sarah Cartland

I did giggle at Vinnie Jones’s menacingly growly voiceover in this new trailer for The Big Ugly (a title with room for myriad tweaks and variations) – an action revenge thriller that sees a London mobster transplanted to the US for a money-laundering oil deal. Neelyn (Jones), an enforcer for UK gang boss Harris (Malcolm… The Big Ugly trailer: Vinnie Jones’s gangland enforcer strikes oil, but has he met his match? Read More

Filed Under: Trailers Tagged With: AAA, action, lenora crichlow, malcolm mcdowell, murder, oil, revenge, the big ugly, thriller, vinnie jones

Blow The Man Down 4 stars☆☆☆☆☆

26th February 2020 by Sarah Cartland 5 Comments

Teenage sisters Mary Beth and Priscilla Connolly, who have recently lost their mother, attempt to cover up a gruesome run-in with a dangerous man. To conceal their crime, they must go deeper into Easter Cove’s underbelly and uncover the town matriarchs’ darkest secrets. In this clever, layered thriller, the three older ladies of Easter Cove… Blow The Man Down Read More

Filed Under: Film Reviews, Support Indie Film Tagged With: bereavement, fishing village, Maine, murder, secrets

Don’t Let Go 2.5 stars☆☆☆☆☆

29th September 2019 by Sarah Cartland Leave a Comment

I’m sure most of us would like to alter our past to improve on our present. If I could, you’d be reading this in The Guardian, a paper that would no longer, once I’d gone back far enough with my red pen, be susceptible to typos. That’s assuming it all went to plan and my… Don’t Let Go Read More

Filed Under: Film Reviews Tagged With: mobile phones, murder, time travel

The Vanishing 4 stars☆☆☆☆☆

3rd April 2019 by Sarah Cartland 13 Comments

Three lighthouse keepers on the remote Flannan Isles find a hidden trunk of gold, leading to their mysterious disappearance. There’s a brutal scene half-way through The Vanishing, director Kristoffer Nyholm’s “what if?” take on the Flannan Isle mystery. It’s a fight between lighthouse keepers James Ducat (Gerard Butler) and Thomas Marshall (Peter Mullan), and two violent… The Vanishing Read More

Filed Under: Film Reviews Tagged With: flannan isle, gold, lighthouse, lighthouse keepers, murder, scotland

Out Of Blue 3 stars☆☆☆☆☆

29th March 2019 by Sarah Cartland 1 Comment

“Observation changes the result” we find out in Carol Morley’s timely thriller Out Of Blue. It’s a theory in physics, but it’s also interesting because of what it says about art and its audience. This is, the opening titles state, “a Carol Morley film”. Though maybe it isn’t any more? That’s a side issue though,… Out Of Blue Read More

Filed Under: Film Reviews Tagged With: childhood, cosmology, murder, space, time

Serenity (2019) 2 stars☆☆☆☆☆

4th March 2019 by Sarah Cartland 3 Comments

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

Filed Under: Film Reviews Tagged With: fisherman, island, murder, noir, tuna

Polar 1.5 stars☆☆☆☆☆

26th January 2019 by Sarah Cartland Leave a Comment

I hate to admit this but the only time I laughed out loud during John Wick 3: Parky Bottom, I mean Polar, was when something terrible happened to the cute dog. Based on the comic series of the same name, Polar mixes dark brooding and methodical kills with trashy, flashy, searingly bright gunfests to weird… Polar Read More

Filed Under: Film Reviews Tagged With: assassin, black kaiser, comic book, murder

A Friend In Need (Short Film) Short Film 3.5 stars☆☆☆☆☆

13th January 2019 by Sarah Cartland Leave a Comment

A Friend In Need brought to mind that (probably apocryphal) Mark Twain quote: “I once sent a dozen of my friends a telegram saying ‘flee at once – all is discovered.’ They all left town immediately.” Here it’s affairs, drugs, crimes against fashion (I’m looking at you, Patrick), and being rude to a pole dancer… A Friend In Need (Short Film) Read More

Filed Under: Film Reviews, Support Indie Film Tagged With: friendship, infidelity, marriage, murder

Mandy (London Film Festival) 4 stars☆☆☆☆☆

6th October 2018 by Sarah Cartland Leave a Comment

“Weird shit” says Caruthers, who lives in an isolated forest caravan, of the activities of a terrifying near-demonic biker gang that his friend Red is planning to track down and kill. It’s a good description of both the gang and gleefully bloodthirsty action-horror Mandy, though it doesn’t go far enough. To be honest I had no… Mandy (London Film Festival) Read More

Filed Under: Film Reviews, London Film Festival Tagged With: bikers, cult, fantasy, murder, revenge

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