CINEMA & HOME RELEASES

“These go up to 11”. WHo would have thought that from a humble 1984 mock/rock-umentary - itself spun off from a 1978 sketch show - this quote from a dumb guitarist has now become part of our global lexicon and beloved by millions.

Like many others the first time I heard of Weapons was from the public fallout of its bidding war which resulted in horror maestro Jordan Peele parting with his mangers.

Demián Rugna’s follow up to his cult classic Terrified (2017) gets the special edition treatment from Second Sight. When Evil Lurks was originally released in 2023 and showcased that Rugna had lost none of his ability to create shocking, uncomfortable horror sequences.

If their stunning debut, Talk to Me (2022), used possessions and hauntings as representations for substance abuse and grief, in Bring Her Back Danny and Michael Philippou double down on the generational trauma that can be caused through grief. The result is a thoroughly disturbing horror film that never resorts to jump

31 years after Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult, a reboot sees the infamous Lt. Frank Drebin Junior and the police squad, uncovering the mystery behind a suspicious death in Miami. Going from one disaster to another, Frank takes on electric cars, a love interest, and an evil CEO.

Marvel’s post-Endgame output has been rather patchy and I had all but given up on the whole thing by avoiding all their films and TV shows for the last 2 years. Thor: Love and Thunder was the breaking point for me.

I can remember it vividly, the excitement, the spectacle and the long drive home afterwards. Needless to say, Batman V Superman, with its convoluted exposition and overall drabness isn’t a film I hold in high regard against its peers.

This twisted Australian horror tale stars Meg Clarke as Grace Jennings who unfortunately gets lost whilst injured and alone in a forest - of course she does - during a mission to look for her brother who has gone missing.

It could be argued that Ken Russell found his perfect combination of themes with his adaptation of D. H. Lawrence’s Women in Love, initially released in 1969 and starring Oliver Reed, Alan Bates, Glenda Jackson and Jennie Linden.

TwentyFourSeven is Shane Meadow’s feature debut and stars Bob Hoskins as a hard-working boxing club owner desperate to help young men in his community get their wayward lives back on track.

Days became weeks. Weeks Became years. In 28 Years Later the rage virus that infected the United Kingdom has evolved, creating new types of zombies that are more brutal and merciless than before.

Released in 1975 at the height of their fame, Wolverhampton band Slade decided that despite their joyous glam rock stylings, a fun playful knockaround film musical romp in the style of A Hard Day’s Night was not what they were looking for creatively.

Shane Black has written his fair share of witty dialogue, buddy-cop movies and his trademark flourishes are on full show in a new special edition release of this 1977-set noir comedy about private detectives investigating a missing girl.

Well, bi-Adolf Hitler BDSM is not something (a) I thought I’d ever see 5 minutes into a movie and (b) ever expected to write in my lifetime to be fair but this spicy start is pretty standard for the work of exploitation filmmaker Russ Meyer.

Ti West’s The House of the Devil makes a wonderful companion piece to his film The Innkeepers. Both maintain the director’s referential approach to horror, incapsulating it in a slow burning 90 minutes that manages to build and maintain tension while cheekily winking to the audience and showing the mechanisms behind the scares.