Tag: Horror

Quick Critique-Hex (REQUEST)

Post author By You Call Yourself a Film Critic
Post date December 21, 2019
1 Comment on Quick Critique-Hex (REQUEST)

Two soldiers on the opposing side of the English Civil War get lost in a forest at the tail end of an ugly battle that leaves the two of them the lone survivors.

Tags Daniel Oldroyd, English Civil War, Folk Horror, George Popov, Hex, Horror, Jonathan Russell, Low budget movies, Quick Critique, Requested Reviews, Slow burner, William Young

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Quick Critique: Mia Morris’ Diary (REQUEST)

Post author By You Call Yourself a Film Critic
Post date March 14, 2019
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The world of web series is not one I’ve particularly ventured on, despite spending the vast majority of my life on YouTube.

Tags Black Cat Film Productions, Black Cat Productions, Bram Stoker, Dracula, Horror, Mia Morris' Diary, Sarah Stephenson, Sharee Muller, Skye Fitzpatrick, Video Diaries, Web series, YouTube

Lists

2017: Worst of, 10-1

Post author By You Call Yourself a Film Critic
Post date January 4, 2018
5 Comments on 2017: Worst of, 10-1

Click here to read my Watchlist and Guilty Pleasures list, here for my Worst list 24-11 and here for my Best list 23-11.

Right, no time to waste! Let’s continue this with my 10 worst films of 2017.

Tags Bitter Harvest, bottom 10, Candy Crush, Carrie-Anne Moss, Charles Manson, Charlie Day, Cheryl Ladd, Christian, Christian films, Christina Hendrix, Colin Treverrow, Dean Norris, Dirty Grandpa, Doug Jones, Emojis, famine, Fatal Attractions, Faye Dunaway, Fist Fight, fundamentalist christianity, Harley Quinn Smith, Holomodovar, Horror, Horror films, Ice Cube, Instagram, January, Jesus, Jillian Bell, JK Simmons, Johnny Depp, Katherine Hiegl, Kevin Smith, LEGO, Lily-Rose Depp, Manson Family, Michael Fassbender, Octavia Spenser, orthodox christianity, Rosario Dawson, Sam Worthington, Sharon Tate, Soviet Union, Spirituality, The Book of Henry, The Bye-Bye Man, The Emoji Movie, The LEGO Movie, The Shack, The Snowman, Tomas Alfredson, Tracy Morgan, Tusk, Ukraine, Ukrainian, Unforgettable, Val Kilmer, Wolves at the Door, Worst of 2017, Yoga Hosers, YouTube

Lists

Cork Film Festival 2017

Post author By You Call Yourself a Film Critic
Post date November 29, 2017
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Okay, let’s get this shit started!

Tags 32 Pills: My Sister's Suicide, A Christmas Carol, Abkhazia, Alcoholism, Alexander Payne, Alfred Hitchcock, Aliens, Amanda Fuller, Amour, Andrey Zvyagintsev, Annette Bening, Anti-capitalist film, Ask the Sexpert, Baltimore, Barkhad Abdi, Bee Gees, Ben Safdie, Ben Wishaw, Biopic, Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story, Bond Movie, Brendan Gleeson, Bria Vinaite, Brooklyn Prince, Cannes Film Festival, Cary Grant, Catwoman, Charles Dickens, Christmas, Christoph Waltz, Christopher Plummer, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Condemned to Remember, Cork, Cork Film, Cork Film Festival, Cork Film Festival 2017, Dafhyd Flynn, Dan Stevens, Deborah Haywood, Dina, Dina Buno, Disco, Documentary, Downsizing, Dr Mahinder Watsa, Europe, Eva Marie Saint, Family Film, Fascism, Fashionista, Film noir, Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool, Florida, Florida theme parks, Frank Berry, Fredrich Englels, gentrification, Gloria Grahame, Good Time, Happy End, HBO Documentary, Hedy Lamarr, Holocaust, Holocaust denialism, Hong Chau, Horror, Hugh Grant, Humphrey Bogart, In a lonely place, India, Irish Film, Isabelle Huppert, James Bond, Jamie Bell, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Joanna Scanlan, John Travolta, John Williams, Jonathan Pryce, Jonathan Swift, Joshua Safdie, Judaism, Just Charlie, Karl Marx, King Hu, Kitchen sink drama, Kristen Wiig, Lalor Roddy, Legend of The Mountain, Lily Newmark, Liverpool, Loveless, Martial Arts, Matt Damon, Michael Haneke, Michael Inside, Moe Dunford, Monkeys, Mumbai, Muslim, Nazi, Nicholas Ray, Nicolas Roeg, North by Northwest, Paddington, Paddington 2, Paddington Bear, Palma D'Or, Palme D'Or, Paradise Lost, Paul McGuigan, Pin Cushion, Prison life, Puerto Rico, Raoul Peck, Rat Films, Rats, Richard Dreyfuss, Robert Pattison, Roy Scheider, Ruben Ostland, Russia, Saturday Night Fever, Scott Levin, Scrooge, Sean Baker, Sean Connery, Sexual revolution, Simon Rumley, Slovakia, Snow White, Social Media, Social Satire, Sociological study, Sorcerer, Spy film, Staying Alive, Steven Spielberg, Suicide, Sukhumi, Taiwan, Tangerine, Tarzan's Testicles, The Florida Project, The Man Who Invented Christmas, The Safdie Brothers, The Square, The Wages of Fear, The Young Karl Marx, Tickled, Toby Jones, Tomi Reichental, trans issues, trans rights, Transgender, Udo Kier, USSR, Wi-Fi, Willem Dafoe, William Friedkin, World War Two

Quick Critique

Quick Critique: mother!

Post author By You Call Yourself a Film Critic
Post date September 26, 2017
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A housewife (Jennifer Lawrence) works hard to get a rundown house back in order while her beloved husband (Javier Bardem) suffers from writer’s block.

Tags Black Swan, Brian Gleeson, Darren Aronofsky, Domhnall Gleeson, Ed Harris, Horror, Horror films, Javier Bardem, Jennifer Lawrence, Michelle Pfieffer, Mother, Noah, Pi, Religious metaphor, Requiem for a Dream, Surrealist horror, The Fountain, The Wrestler

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Quick (-ish) Critique: The Limehouse Golem

Post author By You Call Yourself a Film Critic
Post date September 16, 2017
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Victorian London has been shaken up by a series of gruesome murders in Limehouse, the culprit dubbed ‘The Limehouse Golem’ by the press.

Tags Alan Rickman, Bill Nighy, Crimson Horror, Dan Leno, Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem, Douglas Booth, Eddie Marsan, George Gissing, Gothic Horror, Horror, Horror films, Karl Marx, Olivia Cooke, Sweeney Todd, The Limehouse Golem, Victorian films, Victorian Horror, Victorian Horror Films

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Quick Critique: Alien Covenant

Post author By You Call Yourself a Film Critic
Post date June 30, 2017
2 Comments on Quick Critique: Alien Covenant

Well. Kinda talked myself into this one.

Tags Alien, Alien Covenent, Billy Crudup, Danny McBride, Horror, James Franco, Katherine Waterston, Michael Fassbender, Prequel, Prometehus, Quick Critique, Ridley Scott, Sci-fi, Xenomorph

Podcast

Podcast: Horrorthon 2016

Post author By You Call Yourself a Film Critic
Post date January 30, 2017
4 Comments on Podcast: Horrorthon 2016

(Originally published 17 November-19 December 2016)

Intro/Tuesday & Thursday:

Tags Critters, Dublin, Horror, Horror festival, Horror films, Horrorthon, IFI, Irish film festivals, Irish Film Institute, Jeff Goldblum, Multi-part podcast, Peter Cushing, Podcast, Raw, The Devil's Candy, The Fly

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