The Great Hack – Review
“Put your hand up if you’ve ever seen an ad that’s made you think your phone is listening to you,” Professor David Carroll asks a class full of students. Sitting watching at home, I actually raised m...
Author Archives: Mary Palmer
Blindspotting – Review
Rap music has long been a platform for aggrieved minorities to express their oppression through a heightened use of language. A pattern of speech that is punctuated by fear, anger and hope for the fu...
JoJo Rabbit – First Trailer
“Visionistical” director, Taika Waititi, is keeping the first glimpse of Jo Jo Rabbit short and sweet. The first teaser – ahead of the film’s debut at the Toronto Internationa...
It Chapter Two – New Trailer
We’re getting a second glimpse of The Losers Club before they make their way back to UK cinemas this Autumn. And, if the naked old lady in the first trailer scared you, get ready to feel even m...
Midsommar – Review
It’s going to be hard to discuss Ari Aster’s Midsommar without getting into spoiler-y level detail. It’s a film that, even if you aren’t dealing with emotional trauma or menta...
Toy Story 4 – Review
The incinerator scene in 2010’s Toy Story 3 left so many moviegoers in floods of tears in a way that no film about childhood toys ever should. It was so emotional and poignant – a real le...
Six Of The Best: Jake Gyllenhaal
Jake Gyllenhaal is currently storming through cinema screens in a burgundy cape and a cloud of green smoke as he takes on the role of Mysterio in Spider-Man: Far From Home. As we noted in our Moviesc...
Spider-Man: Far From Home – Review
Peter Parker doesn’t want to be an Avenger. He wants to be a 16-year-old schoolboy from Queens, travelling through Europe for the summer. He wants his first girlfriend. And he wants to get over the l...
Six Of The Best: Dark Side of Fame
Fame and fortune. It sounds wonderful, doesn’t it? Endless awards ceremonies, millions of social media followers and enough clothes and make up to keep you looking at your very best at all times. It ...
Six Of The Best – Coming Of Age
Being a teenager is hard. Going through high school – and attempting to emerge relatively unscathed – equally so. It’s a time of great change; of expectations and reinventions. And, if you’re lucky, ...