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Review: The Witcher is the fantasy bobbins you never knew you needed

TV Review | Luke Whiston | 8th January 2020

"Cheap. Fast. Good. Pick two." So goes that old maxim of the creative world. I guess what they didn't mean was "pick two things and bludgeon them into the triangle of choice with the nearest rock while screaming at it to make sense" - the two things in the case of Netflix's adaptation of The Witcher being a hollowed out Game of Thrones where we're parachuted into the lore with no explanation and left to fend for ourselves, and blinkered '90s after-school spellcasting greenscreen of death Knightmare. The result being a foul-mouthed mess that somehow defies all cynical attempts to bring it down.

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Interview: Kill List director Ben Wheatley gets a grill list

Movie Feature | Ali | 31st August 2011

I messaged director Ben Wheatley on Twitter if he'd mind doing an email Q&A about his ace new film, Kill List. He agreed. Read the interview and the amazing true story of our blossoming friendship below.

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Kill List

Movie Review | Ali | 28th August 2011

Kill List is just the kind of low-budget indie horror that manages to market itself brilliantly purely by virtue of being a low-budget indie horror. The sparing ads reveal nothing other than spooky woods and five-star ratings; the posters lay out an assortment of weapons but offer no context; the trailers reveal nothing but a British gangster movie with a possible sting in the tail. "They're bad people," growls Neil Maskell's hitman, Jay, gazing into a burning fire. "They deserve to suffer." And that's your lot. All you know is that it definitely isn't a romantic comedy, and that the chances of a Rupert Grint cameo are pretty slim.

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The Descent: Part II

Movie Review | Steven | 4th December 2009

Although the premise of these films involves groups of people going very much in a downwards direction, this sequel has one hell of an upward journey if it is to match the sheer tension and claustrophobia of Neil Marshall's 2005 original.

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The Descent

Movie Review | Ali | 10th July 2005

Hollywood's lack of vision when it comes to the horror genre is starting to grate. We've already had remakes of Dawn of the Dead, Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Amityville Horror in the last few years, not to mention the influx of American remade Japanese shockers - even before The Descent had begun, the first two trailers were bo...

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