Author Tori Brazier

The Ones Below takes a universal concept (pregnancy) and examines the baser human instincts involved in the potentially claustrophobic - and competitive - environment of new neighbours both expecting at the...

A welcome period setting - almost legitimizing the horror aspects for anyone not keen on the genre - allows The Witch to add gravitas to its story through the use of genuine 1600s New England records of...

Hitchcock/Truffaut is a gentle but revealing documentary, 50 years on from the exhaustive interviews conducted by François Truffaut. Concentrating on re-evaluating Hitchcock’s work and the context...

Truth makes for well-rounded characters. The constantly impressive Blanchett is maverick news producer Mapes, with the depressingly radical support of her ‘house-husband’ (a sincere Hickey), and further...

Goosebumps generally keeps its head above the waters of churned-out children’s-book-adaptation mediocrity, embracing the fun of iconic monsters wreaking havoc on small-town America. The script teeters on the...

Trumbo, despite its blacklist subject matter, keeps things light and irreverent with a wry screenplay, emphasising the absurdity of America’s Communist paranoia post-World War Two. Bryan Cranston has a...

Dalton Trumbo, novelist and prolific screenwriter for nearly forty years from the 1930s, is to return to the public consciousness as a biopic of his life hits UK screens. Despite being an Oscar winner and the...

Hollywood has always enjoyed the suave English gentleman actor, ever since the days of Cary Grant and David Niven, and award-winning films and blockbuster movies alike continue to be staffed by the likes of...

Olivia de Havilland is universally synonymous with her role as the selfless, gentle Melly in 1939’s megahit Gone with the Wind, as well as her eight-picture association with Errol Flynn and her overall...

Ron Howard’s In the Heart of the Sea is nothing that we haven’t seen before, least of all from the man himself – moral characters, personality clashes, a dramatic score and attempts to survive the...

Despite Closet Monster dealing with a ‘standard-fare’ topic – teenage angst and sexuality – it manages to prevent itself from seeming derivative.  Unafraid to reveal the still-lurking nastier...

Maggie Smith dominates The Lady in the Van, revisiting a theatre role that earned her great accolades. The quieter Alex Jennings as Alan Bennett is a solid choice for her exasperated sparring partner, in...

Brooklyn is a beautiful film, in both presentation, with its lush cinematography, and delicate execution.  It’s an intimate tale of one girl’s struggle to find the life she wishes to lead – but told...

Ably supported by a heavyweight cast, superior acting reigns supreme throughout this engrossing enough story. Black Mass sees Johnny Depp exhibit a predictably excellent transformation into cold-eyed...

Paula aims to be an intelligent study on coming-of-age issues, and the strict, if subtle, gender dynamics that still govern some communities. Young nanny Paula’s predicament finds no one willing to help - or...