The Killer – Review
David Fincher’s latest thriller, The Killer, is probably the antithesis of what many have come to anticipate from the “hitman’s revenge” kind of film. It is still; it defies its own mantras about not...
Category Archives: Genre
Cobweb – Review
There can’t be too much left unexplored in contemporary horror. The creature feature. The alienated, eccentric child. The mother of a nervous disposition. The house that creaks at night. The mysterio...
The Boy and The Herron – Review
Nothing quite gets an audience as excited as a new Studio Ghibli film does, especially when Hayao Miyazaki is the Director attached. From such classics of Spirited Away and Howl’s Moving Castle, the ...
The Thief Collector – Review
A middle-aged couple with a penchant for exotic holidays. Cliff, New Mexico. One of the most brazen art thefts in recent decades. A collection of self-published short stories revealing a potentially ...
Rotting in the Sun – Review
Warning – This review contains major spoilers for Rotting in the Sun If Tom Gormican’s The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent taught us anything, it’s that we love actors playing hyper stylised vers...
Corpus Christi – Review
“You know what we’re good at? Giving up on people. Pointing the finger at them. To forgive doesn’t mean to forget. Forgive means love. To love someone despite their guilt. No matter what the guilt is...
Filip – Review
The tagline on the poster for Michal Kwiecinski’s Filip reads “Scoundrel? Hero? Victim?” and that perfectly sums up the tone and style of this film. At times sumptuous and erotic, at others violent a...
Barbie – Review
Greta Gerwig’s candy-coloured Barbie movie has been one of the most anticipated movies of the past few years. One half of the so-called “Barbenheimer”, it hit the box offices in a wave of pink and se...
Oppenheimer – Review
“Now I am become Death, destroyer of worlds.” Christopher Nolan’s biopic of J. Robert Oppenheimer, based on Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherman’s book, American Prometheus, weaves effortlessly between the...
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One – Review
It’s hard to deny that Tom Cruise is a man in top form right now. Last years surprise sensation Top Gun: Maverick drove audiences back into cinemas in their numbers with its roaring action and incred...