Expectations would understandably be low for a film entitled Cocaine Bear. While this ‘nature on the rampage’ horror/comedy runs out of puff three quarters of the way in, it offers a little more entertainment and slightly higher production values than we might have expected. The story is very loosely based on real events that took place in 1985 when a
Read moreThe Gen X nostalgia mining continues with yet another sequel/ reboot of a 90’s favourite, in this case Scream. While just called Scream, this film actually marks the fourth sequel to the 1996 original (so it might be thought of as Scream 5) with Scream 4 having been released in 2011. The first Scream film was a successful attempt at
Read moreAs most people of a certain vintage would know The Addams Family was as a quirky 1960s TV show that, alongside The Munsters, Bewitched and I Dream of Genie formed part of a trend in supernaturally themed sitcoms. In their creepy and creaky haunted mansion, the Addams family were living horror tropes with the Vampira-like mother Morticia, the sullen ghoulish
Read moreThe British black comedy Sightseers is one of the strangest and funniest films of the year. Part road trip, part serial killer film and part twisted romance, the film somehow manages to successfully mix brutal murders with quirky and endearing comedy. Sightseers stars Alice Low and Steve Oram (who also wrote the script) as two oddball Brits, Tina and Chris
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