Director – Tim Burton – 1988 – US – Cert. 15 – 92m ***1/2 A recently deceased couple hire a bio-exorcist to rid their former house of its new, yuppie occupants – review originally published in Samhain, 1988 Whilst its opening shot recalls the aerial opening of The Shining (Stanley Kubrick, 1980) segueying into that […]
Director – George Armitage – 1990 – US – Cert. 18 – 97m Fred Ward produced and starred in an adaptation of the first of Charles Willeford’s Hoke Moseley crime novels in 1990 **** Review from TNT magazine, March 1990, republished here on the death of actor Fred Ward, May 2022 To anyone already familiar […]
Director – Barnaby Thompson – 2020 – Ireland – Cert. 15 – 93m ***1/2 A free-spirited, rule-bending Irishwoman takes on a world of small-time gangsters from the inside – in cinemas from Friday, October 23rd The West of Ireland. Fergus (Fra Fee) and Colin (Rory Fleck Byrne) have received a tip-off about a shipment coming […]