29th Apr2024

‘Boy Kills World’ Video Review

by Kevin Haldon

Kev may be doing some training for his new job but he had to take a minute to drop his review of the new Moritz Mohr directed Boy Kills World, which stars Bill Skarsgaard, Yayan Ruhian, Famke Jansen, Sharlto Copley, Bert Gelmann and many more. Get ready for the most gleefully supercharged action film you’ll […]

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08th Apr2024

‘Monkey Man’ Review #2

by Matthew Turner

Stars: Dev Patel, Sharlto Copley, Pitobash, Vipin Sharma, Sikandar Kher, Adithi Kalkunte, Sobhita Dhulipala, Ashwini Kalsekar | Written by Dev Patel, Paul Angunawela, John Collee | Directed by Dev Patel Dev Patel directs, co-writes and stars in Monkey Man, an ultraviolent revenge thriller which was rescued from Netflix and given a theatrical release by producer Jordan […]

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05th Apr2024

‘Monkey Man’ Review

by James Rodrigues

Stars: Dev Patel, Sharlto Copley, Pitobash, Vipin Sharma, Sikandar Kher, Adithi Kalkunte, Sobhita Dhulipala, Ashwini Kalsekar | Written by Dev Patel, Paul Angunawela, John Collee | Directed by Dev Patel Ever since it was announced in 2018, Monkey Man had a difficult journey to its release. Dev Patel’s directorial debut received setbacks due to covid restrictions, […]

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24th Nov2022

‘Beast’ Blu-ray Review

by Alex Ginnelly

Stars: Idris Elba, Iyana Halley, Leah Jeffries, Sharlto Copley, Martin Munro, Thapelo Sebogodi, Chris Langa, Mduduzi Mavimbela, Kazi Khuboni | Written by Ryan Engle | Directed by Baltasar Kormákur Despite a poor script that makes the film too predictable, Beast offers up enough lion thrills to keep you entertained for the 90-minute run time. Idris […]

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30th Aug2022

‘Beast’ Review

by Alex Ginnelly

Stars: Idris Elba, Iyana Halley, Leah Jeffries, Sharlto Copley, Martin Munro, Thapelo Sebogodi, Chris Langa, Mduduzi Mavimbela, Kazi Khuboni | Written by Ryan Engle | Directed by Baltasar Kormákur Despite a poor script that makes the film too predictable, Beast offers up enough lion thrills to keep you entertained for the 90-minute run time. Idris […]

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21st Aug2020

Rewind: ‘Free Fire’ Review

by Chris Thomas

In the latest in his series of Rewind reviews looking back at the career of writer/director Ben Wheatley, Chris takes a look at his 2017 film, Free Fire. Stars: Cillian Murphy, Armie Hammer, Brie Larson, Sharlto Copley, Michael Smiley, Sam Riley, Jack Reynor | Written by Ben Wheatley, Amy Jump | Directed by Ben Wheatley […]

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07th Aug2017

‘Free Fire’ Blu-ray Review

by Rupert Harvey

Stars: Cillian Murphy, Armie Hammer, Brie Larson, Sharlto Copley, Michael Smiley, Sam Riley, Jack Reynor | Written by Ben Wheatley, Amy Jump | Directed by Ben Wheatley From A Field in England to a High-Rise in London to a warehouse in a US dockland, you cannot say writer-director Ben Wheatley is predictable. Except Free Fire […]

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24th Mar2017

‘Free Fire’ Review

by Rupert Harvey

Stars: Cillian Murphy, Armie Hammer, Brie Larson, Sharlto Copley, Michael Smiley, Sam Riley, Jack Reynor | Written by Ben Wheatley, Amy Jump | Directed by Ben Wheatley From A Field in England to a High-Rise in London to a warehouse in a US dockland, you cannot say writer-director Ben Wheatley is predictable. Except Free Fire […]

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06th Apr2016

New TV spot & image gallery for ‘Hardcore Henry’

by Phil Wheat

Strap in. Hardcore Henry is an original film that was shot completely from the hero’s perspective (inspired by THAT online sensation from a few years ago). The film comes from producers Timur Bekmambetov, Ilya Naishuller, Inga Vainshtein Smith, Ekaterina Kononenko and is written and directed by Ilya Naishuller. Hardcore Henry‘s cast includes Sharlto Copley, Danila […]

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22nd Mar2016

Superhero cop show ‘Powers’ comes to Spike

by Phil Wheat

Powers is the latest comic adaptation – based on the Marvel/ICON comic by Brian Michael Bendis and Michael Avon Oeming – from the team who produced The Walking Dead which turns the concept of superheroes on their head and asks: what if the world was full of superheroes who aren’t heroic at all? For those […]

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08th Mar2016

Brand new trailer & poster for ‘Hardcore Henry’

by Phil Wheat

Strap in. Hardcore Henry is an original film that was shot completely from the hero’s perspective (inspired by THAT online sensation from a few years ago). The film comes from producers Timur Bekmambetov, Ilya Naishuller, Inga Vainshtein Smith, Ekaterina Kononenko and is written and directed by Ilya Naishuller. Hardcore Henry‘s cast includes Sharlto Copley, Danila […]

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05th Oct2014

Grimmfest 2014: ‘Open Grave’ Review

by Phil Wheat

Stars: Sharlto Copley, Thomas Kretschmann, Josie Ho, Joseph Morgan, Erin Richards, Max Wrottesley, Márta Szabó, Balázs Szitás, Zsuzsanna Szabados, Tofi Seffer | Written by Eddie Borey, Chris Borey | Directed by Gonzalo López-Gallego On paper Open Grave sounded like yet another “homage” to the likes of Buried. After all its the tale of a man […]

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28th May2014

‘Maleficent’ Review

by Phil Wheat

Stars: Angelina Jolie, Elle Fanning, Sharlto Copley, Lesley Manville, Imelda Staunton, Juno Temple, Sam Riley, Brenton Thwaites, Kenneth Cranham, Hannah New, Isobelle Molloy, Michael Higgins, Ella Purnell, Jackson Bews | Written by Linda Woolverton | Directed by Robert Stromberg Having never been a fan of the romantic cliches that pervade the majority of Disney films, […]

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05th Apr2014

‘Oldboy’ DVD Review

by Paul Metcalf

Stars: Sharlto Copley, Josh Brolin, Elizabeth Olsen, Samuel L. Jackson, Michael Imperioli, Pom Klementieff, James Ransone | Written by Mark Protosevich | Directed by Spike Lee Oldboy is a movie that has a huge question hanging over it.  It’s a shame really that the question has nothing to do with the plot, but rather the […]

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23rd Dec2013

‘Elysium’ Blu-ray Review

by Chris Cummings

Stars: Matt Damon, Jodie Foster, Sharlto Copley, Alice Braga | Written and Directed by Neill Blomkamp South African director Neill Blomkamp made his feature film debut with District 9 in 2009, to much acclaim. A fantastic sci-fi film about aliens living in a Johannesburg slum and a human caught in the middle of the aliens […]

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11th Sep2013

‘Elysium’ Review

by Chris Cummings

Stars: Matt Damon, Jodie Foster, Sharlto Copley, Alice Braga | Written and Directed by Neill Blomkamp South African director Neill Blomkamp made his feature film debut with District 9 in 2009, to much acclaim. A fantastic sci-fi film about aliens living in a Johannesburg slum and a human caught in the middle of the aliens […]