Jailbroken had its world première at FrightFest for Glasgow Film Festival, 5 March 2026 Muscle-bound, tattooed hard man Joe (Bryan Larkin, in riveting form) may be just days away from the end of a five-year stint in prison, but he is hardly reformed. For he is already making arrangements over his illicit mobile phone (one…
The Descent first published by Movie Gazette, 27 June, 2005 In 2002, writer/director Neil Marshall had his feature debut with Dog Soldiers, bringing a group of squaddies on manœuvres into collision with a hungry pack of werewolves in the Scottish Highlands – a gripping, funny and satisfyingly gory shocker which put new hair on the back…
The Descent: Part 2 first published by Sight & Sound, December 2009 Review: Neil Marshall‘s The Descent (2005), at least in its full UK version (curtailed slightly but significantly for US audiences), closed with a cliffhanger. It was not just that its protagonist Sarah Carter (Shauna MacDonald) was last glimpsed clinging for dear life to…
White Chamber first published by SciFiNow Strap: Paul Raschid accommodates war’s horrific paradoxes in a plain white room. “The United Kingdom, Soon”, reads the text that opens White Chamber – and already the film’s ironies and contradictions are setting in. For in this near future, the Kingdom is the opposite of United. Civil war divides the…