Reece Beckett

3 days ago | medium.com | Reece Beckett

As is often the case, this Woody Allen comedy spends as much time being annoying as it does being funnyI am, a little infamously, not a fan of Woody Allen. That seems to be becoming a more popular opinion to have in the last few years, but I’ve received quite a bit of flack over the years for my disregarding of most of what are considered to be his major works.

6 days ago | medium.com | Reece Beckett

An okay cast struggles through a troubling, laughably poor melodrama by Sharon MaguireIncendiary is, easily, the worst film I have seen in a long time. Considering its cast, which includes Ewan McGregor, Michelle Williams and Matthew Macfadyen, it’s easy to have at least a mild expectation of quality from this film especially considering its premise.

1 week ago | medium.com | Reece Beckett

A poemThe dust fallsupon my resting bodywhile you renovate upstairs with new dirt,new purpose,my fears silently amplifieddeep in the hole I’ve dug again. I remember asking onceif you’d be there to bury me. After blushing, you said nothingand I held the confusion closeto my freezing chest. Thudding drum loops spur me on, the woozy wheezing of worn out bodiesbegging to be carriedthe next few steps. I take a knee to tell them that I just don’t have the strength.

1 week ago | medium.com | Reece Beckett

Parker Finn’s 2024 horror sequel is striking but over-reliant on the structure of its predecessorParker Finn’s 2022 feature debut Smile was a film that proved a massive surprise. Not only was it marketed brilliantly by having people appear in public doing the titular creepy smile into cameras in the middle of crowds, but it was a film that actually deserved such a fun marketing campaign because it was a (relative) breath of fresh air.

1 week ago | medium.com | Reece Beckett

Phillip Noyce’s 1989 film is a white-knuckle boat ride boasting three strong performances While it is undoubtedly a massive shame that an adaptation of Charles Williams’ novel Dead Calm, begun by Orson Welles in the late 1960s and titled ‘The Deep’ was never able to come to proper, viewable existence (as with many of Welles’ productions over the years), it would seem that there were few better choices for eventual replacements than screenwriter Terry Hayes (of Mad Max: The Road Warrior and...