Phil Hobden
Phil’s Quick Capsule Review: The Hunt is the most controversial film that nobody’s ever seen. Harking back to the moral panics of the early 80’s, you’d think that latest Blumhouse production is a...
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Misery (1990) – A ’31 Films Of Halloween’ Quick Capsule Review
Phil’s Quick Capsule Review: Save for The Shining, until Shawshank came along Misery was considered to be one of, if not THE best, adaptations of a Stephen King book. You can see why – from Kathy Bates Oscar...
Dune Week: Blade Runner 2049 (2017) – A Quick Capsule Review
Phil’s Quick Capsule Review: So this is a turn up for the books – Blade Runner 2049 (Still a terrible DTV title) ends up being one of the best films of 2017. Who saw that coming? To be fair teaming up Reynolds...
Dune Week: Sicario (2015) – A Quick Capsule Review
Phil’s Quick Capsule Review: Wow Sicario was rather unexpected. What a film – a tense, brutal and at time uncompromising look at the war against drugs on the borders of America. With a great cast (including Del...
Dune Week: Arrival (2016) – A Quick Capsule Review
Phil’s Quick Capsule Review: I really liked Arrival but it’s not the film of the year for me, as many critics have branded it. It is however a very good, well made and visually stunning Sci-Fi film that has one...
Gretel and Hansel (2020) – A ’31 Films Of Halloween’ Quick Capsule Review
Phil’s Quick Capsule Review: Gretel and Hansel is a creepy, tense, cinematic horror that takes more than a page or two from 2015’s The Witch and reinvents the Grimms’ Fairy Tales for a more mature generation...
#Alive (2020) – A ’31 Films Of Halloween’ Quick Capsule Review
Phil’s Quick Capsule Review: It’s pretty hard to do anything new in the Zombie genre. After all from Romero’s cult classics through to reinventions like 28 Days and now The Walking Dead, zombies have gone...
Freaky (2020) – A ’31 Films Of Halloween’ Quick Capsule Review
Phil’s Quick Capsule Review: The issue with modern day horror films is that they often don’t go far enough. A great concept can be lost in a solid film. And despite being really good fun Freaky, a contemporary...
