HCF Reviews
The Lighthouse (2019)
THE LIGHTHOUSE Directed by Robert Eggers Amidst the troubled waters of a bad January, a month in which horror fans had both The Grudge and The Turning come out, The Lighthouse has loomed like a […]
Month: January 2020
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‘THE TURNING’ DIRECTOR FLORIA SIGISMONDI TALKS ABOUT THAT ENDING
SPOILERS! I didn’t like The Turning much, my review of which you can read here. One of the things that annoyed me most, and indeed it seems many others, is the baffling way in which […]
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LATEST TRAILERS: ‘FANTASY ISLAND’
I never saw the late ’70s to early ’80s TV series starring Richardo Montalban and Herve Villechaize, so I won’t be able to make unfavourable comparisons to it when I watch this movie version which […]
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LATEST TRAILERS: ‘WAR OF THE WORLDS’ [YES ANOTHER VERSION!]
We haven’t long suffered the BBC’s version, yet here comes another adaptation of War Of The Worlds. To be fair though, this new one looks like it’s going to be rather better [it couldn’t be […]
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‘LETHAL WEAPON 5’ COMING
Well, my personal feeling is that Mel Gibson and Danny Glover are too old for this shit, and have audiences really forgiven Gibson for those nasty anti-semitic comment? But, after several rumours over the years, […]
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‘THE THING’ REMAKE COMING FROM BLUMHOUSE
I know I know. Out of all the remakes we’ve seen or that have been announced of late, another version of The Thing sounds like one of the most pointless. Christian Nyby’s 1951 adaptation The […]
HCF Reviews
The Grudge (2020)
THE GRUDGE Directed by Nicolas Pesce Some horror fans, myself fully included, are like (Brundle)flies in that, while we watch lots of good stuff we’ll also gravitate towards shit. Part of being this sort of […]
HCF Reviews
NEFARIOUS (2019)
NEFARIOUS (2019) Directed by Richard Rowntree Nefarious is the second film from director Richard Rowntree and co-writer Matthew Davis, following their previous collaboration in the 2017 film “Dogged”. Nefarious follows three, eventually intersecting, narratives: the […]
HCF Reviews
Jay and Silent Bob Reboot (2019)
JAY AND SILENT BOB REBOOT Directed by Kevin Smith There’s a formula to reviewing a modern Kevin Smith joint. You start by waffling about how much he meant to you growing up, saying you wouldn’t […]
Ghost
THE TURNING [2020]: In Cinemas Now
USA IN CINEMAS NOW RUNNING TIME: 94 mins REVIEWED BY: Dr Lenera, Official HCF Critic 1994; teacher Kate has been offered an opportunity to become a governess for Flora and Miles, two orphaned siblings […]
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SODOMA’S GHOST [1988]
AKA IL FANATASMA DI SODOMA, THE GHOSTS OF SODOM Italy AVAILABLE ON DVD RUNNING TIME: 84 mins REVIEWED BY: Dr Lenera, Official HCF Critic SPOILERS! At an isolated country house during World War II, […]
Animation
WEATHERING WITH YOU [2019]: In Selected Cinemas Now
AKA TENKI NO KO Japan IN SELECTED CINEMAS NOW RUNNING TIME: 116 mins REVIEWED BY: Dr Lenera, Official HCF Critic High-school freshman Hodaka Morishima runs away from home and gets himself hired as a […]
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REBOOT OF ‘KUNG FU’ TV SERIES COMING, DAVID LEITCH DIRECTING
One of my favourite TV shows as a very young kid was Kung Fu, in which David Carradine wandered about the Wild West righting wrongs and defeating bad guys in slow motion amidst philosophical flashbacks […]
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RICHARD STANLEY DIRECTING TWO MORE H. P. LOVECRAFT ADAPTATIONS
Hardware and Dust Devil director Richard Stanley hasn’t long finished Color Out Of Space, an adaptation of an H.P. Lovecraft short story, and he’s already talking about his next film, a new adaptation of Lovecraft’s […]
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‘DON’T BREATHE 2’ GREENLIT, BUT FEDE ALVAREZ NOT DIRECTING
Fede Alvarez has been talking about a sequel to his hugely suspenseful Don’t Breathe for a while now, and we’ve recently learnt that it’s definitely going to happen, the project having finally been given a […]
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‘WORLD WAR Z 2’ STILL A POSSIBILITY
I didn’t like World War Z much myself, but it was a big hit in 2013 and, when we learned that it was planned as the first part of a trilogy, we all expected a […]
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NO AGENT SMITH, POSSIBLY THE MEROVINGIAN…..AND OTHER ‘MATRIX 4’ NEWS
So The Matrix 4 [to be probably retitled] is definitely a thing, and, while we have next to no plot details, some news has dribbled in about the project, which reunites writer/director Lana Wachowski with […]
HCF Reviews
HELLMINGTON (2018)
UK Release Date – TBC High-school girls going missing under suspicious circumstances, cryptic final words from dying fathers, and children tragically being by killed by house fires. What’s it all about you ask? Well some […]