The Ritual (2017) I only get to watch horror movies by myself. This isn’t out of choice. It’s just that my girlfriend wants nothing to do with anything more terrifying than The Emperor’s New Groove. And in this day and age, you can’t casually phone a pal and ask them round to watch a horror […]
The Ritual (2017)

Film Title
The Ritual (2017)Synopsis
A bachelor party takes a menacing turn in the Scandinavian forest.
Director
David BrucknerCast
Rafe Spall
Arsher Ali
Robert James-Collier
Sam Troughton
Paul Reid
Darkest Hour

Film Title
Darkest HourSynopsis
The fate of Europe, if not the entire planet depends on one man, Winston Churchill.
Cast
Gary Oldman
Kristin Scott Thomas
Ben Mendelson
Lily James
Ronald Pickup
Samuel West
Stephen Dillane
In Darkest Hour, Winston Churchill characterizes the antithesis of university students the world over, and succeeds in making a series of intelligent decisions whilst extremely drunk. The film captures the crushing pressure borne by Churchill at a time when Britain seemed small and alone in the face of a military supremacy never-before encountered in history. […]
The 2017 adaptation Of Steven King’s Novel-IT

Film Title
ItSynopsis
More than the sum of ITs parts
Director
Andy MuschiettiCast
Jaeden Lieberher
Sophia Lillis
Bill Skarsgard
Jack Glazer
Finn Wolfhard
Wyatt Oleff
Jeremy Taylor
Chosen Jacobs
Nicholas Hamilton
The 2017 adaptation Of Steven King’s Novel – IT – has been arguably the most anticipated big-screen manifestation of his work since The Shining. And logging on to social media has felt a little like being George Denborough or any other child in Derry, in that Pennywise has been apt to pop up out of […]
The Emoji Movie

Film Title
The Emoji MovieSynopsis
The best proof yet that our species is nothing more than a waste of a good meteor.
Director
Tony LeondisCast
T.J. Miller
Steven Wright
Beelzebub
The death of all hope
Patrick Stewart
Editor’s Note: Sometimes we request that our writers do horrible things. Sometimes they actually do them. The Emoji Movie is rated 1.5/10.0 at IMDB and has a score of 12/100 from Metacritic. Al actually watched and reviewed this awful movie. It’s around twenty minutes into the feature and I feel the panic begin to set […]
Alien: Resurrection

Film Title
Alien: ResurrectionSynopsis
Ripley back from the dead to save humanity from itself. Again.
Director
Jean-Pierre JeunetCast
Sigourney Weaver
Winona Ryder
Ron Pearlman
Dominique Pinon
Gary Dourdan
Michael Wincott
Dan Hedaya
Kim Flowers
Allow me to begin by warning those of us (myself included) who approach new Ruthless reviews with the same sort of gleeful yips a hyena may emit when approaching the rotting carcass of a blind, three-legged baby gazelle: This will not be a wholesale evisceration of Alien: Resurrection. The perceived wisdom is that this movie […]
Alien: Covenant

Film Title
Alien: CovenantSynopsis
Alien Covenant is a welcome return to form for the classic franchise. Covenant delivers solidly in both action and intrigue.
Director
Ridley ScottCast
Michael Fassbender
Katherine Waterston
Billy Crudup
Danny McBride
Demian Bichir
Goran D Kleut
Andrew Crawford
Alien: Covenant. New movies in the Alien franchise are anticipated with the same level of excitement and nervousness as the Terminator movies: Both have an unassailable 80’s pedigree and are subject to an unforgiving gauntlet of public scrutiny upon every subsequent release. With Terminator, the studio’s response appears to be to re-hash precisely the same […]
Man on Fire (2004)

Film Title
Man on Fire (2004)Synopsis
A screaming child is abducted and Denzel Washington kills Mexicans to save her
Director
Tony ScottCast
Denzel Washington
Dakota Fanning
Radha Mitchell
Christopher Walken
Marc Anthony
Mickey Rourke
There is a strong body of evidence in Man on Fire (2004) to suggest that the Tripods in War of the Worlds began losing interest in galactic conquest as a result of Dakota Fanning’s perpetual screaming. It was a painful example of lax parenting and a dysfunctional familial structure having an adverse effect on those […]
Manchester By The Sea and political correctness

Film Title
Manchester By The SeaSynopsis
An amazing performance is shadowed by off the set accusations
Director
Kenneth LonerganCast
Casey Affleck
Ben O'Brien
Kyle Chandler
Michelle Williams
Lucas Hedges
C. J. Wilson
Stephen Henderson
Manchester by the Sea and political correctness This post is fundamentally based on two separate topics (and note the insistence of separation here, something we’ll come back to in a bit). First off, it’s a brief review of Kenneth Lonergan’s Oscar-winning 2016 release Manchester by the Sea. Secondly, it makes a clumsy but just-about-acceptable segue […]
Is Stephen King good or Isn’t He?
A necessary word of caution for anybody expecting even a few words flirting with the warm, comfortable familiarity of the “Is Stephen King good or Isn’t He” diametric war of attrition. Typically, to the utter despair of anybody unfortunate enough to be close enough to listen, I’m happy – delighted even – to hold forth […]
Finding Dory

Film Title
Finding DorySynopsis
Another finding a fish story from Disney Pixar
Director
Andrew StantonCast
Ellen DeGeneres
Albert Brooks
Ed O'Neil
Kaitlin Olson
Hayden Rolence
Dianne Keaton
There’s this scene in my head when the board and executives at Disney Pixar meet to discuss the success of Finding Nemo and the possibility of a sequel. It goes something like this: An executive enters the boardroom. Senior, benevolent shareholders are sitting around the table drinking freshly squeezed juices and exchanging kindly grins with […]