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  • The Cottage (2008)
    Review preview for The Cottage

    Taken as a straightforward comic horror movie, this feels too derivative and clichéd. Taken as homage or pastiche, it's not nearly funny, knowing or camp enough.

    Susanna Krawczyk · 2.5 out of 5
    When wannabe big-time crooks kidnap a gangster's daughter and hole up in a remote cottage, they find there are scarier people out there than the mob.
  • Cherry Tree Lane (2010)
    Review preview for Cherry Tree Lane

    It boils down to an exercise in horror and endurance. It's rare you see a film which will elicit such a guttural reaction from its audience

    James Benefield · 4 out of 5
    Urban horror about a culture-clash between an upper-crust couple, and trouble with local boys.
  • Dragonfly (2025)
    Review preview for Dragonfly

    The performances of double Oscar-nominated Blethyn and Riseborough provide hypnotic accounts of their characters as two vulnerable souls on the edge.

    Richard Mowe · 3 out of 5
    When Colleen volunteers to care for her elderly neighbor Elsie, the two quickly bond. But beneath the pleasantries, motives start to be questioned leading to a devastating series of events.
  • London To Brighton (2006)
    Review preview for London To Brighton

    Verbally, physically and emotionally brutal. You'll come out melted like ice cream.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 4 out of 5
    Two prostitutes flee a murderous gang boss.
  • Song For Marion (2012)
    Review preview for Song For Marion

    Truth be told, I wept buckets.

    Martin Gray · 4 out of 5
    An elderly man struggles to deal with his terminally ill wife's desire to be part of her local choir.

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