A group of old codgers drinking in a pub. A questionable doctor and his coquettish nurse. A work-experience lad languishing in a stale newsroom. A young boy with a penchant for kicking pigs. These are the characters that populate the bizarre world of Kill The Beast’s new production of The Boy Who Kicked Pigs.
Is anyone else getting tired of new horror movies? If it’s not 12A haunted houses, Eli Roth torture-porning it up or endless found footage films, it’s smug-as-hell meta bollocks po-moing for all its worth. I hear you screaming “where are the phallic puppet-demons?” Lucky for you, then, that we have a batch of vintage re-releases this month.
It’s only becoming clearer why War of the Damned had to be the final season of Spartacus.
After a tremendous opening instalment, can the new series from Doctor Who and Torchwood writer Chris Chibnall continue its form?
This is the last chance we’ll get to say it, so here goes: Socha, Bracken, Molony – take your bows. Yours was a perfect trinity.
At its core Robot & Frank is a very human story about getting older.
Oz The Great and the Powerful includes some memorable moments and the cast are top notch, revelling in the hyper-realism of the piece.
A potentially big problem for any little voice is that the production risks being unbalanced by the very thing you likely bought your ticket for in the first place: scene stealing sequences in which a mighty songstress rips forth from a delicate frame. While Jess Robinson delivers on this (and finds space to provide LV with a wry humour) all of this would to naught if there wasn’t a great supporting cast – and, for that matter – plot – to populate the world that Little Voice is so desperately attempting to avoid.
This is a zombie drama that feeds on brains for psychological purposes rather than shocks.
‘Decimation’ is a powerful episode that clearly shows us that things will only get worse for the characters as the season progresses.