How to Have Sex film review: A searing editorial debut November 6, 2023 How to Have Sex is a new film tackling issues around consent
Retribution film review: Liam Neeson needs to stop saving children in movies October 26, 2023 Liam Neeson plays a very familiar father role in Retribution, saving the lives of his children as he did in Taken.
Doctor Jekyll review: How is Eddie Izzard in gender-fluid Hammer Horror reboot? October 26, 2023 Eddie Izzard stars in this reboot of the Hammer Horror classic Doctor Jekyll
This Rock Hudson documentary examines actor’s life and AIDS-related death October 19, 2023 Rock Hudson was a macho pin-up in the middle of the last century, but he was secretly gay. This film looks at his legacy
Simon Pegg proves he’s an underrated talent in new movie with the weirdest title October 19, 2023 Simon Pegg shines in this new comedy about a paranormal investigator who goes to the Isle of Man to investigate a talking mongoose
The Creator review: why this slick new action film is well worth your time September 28, 2023 Hollywood loves a bogeyman. In the 80s, films like Red Dawn and Rocky IV had antagonists in the Soviet Union. The internet, climate change, and terrorism are also drawn upon to provide villains. In the 2020s, AI has taken up that mantle. We’ve already seen Tom Cruise chase The Entity in the latest Mission: Impossible [...]
The Old Oak is ‘the last’ Ken Loach movie – but is it any good? September 28, 2023 A fter 55 years of directing modern classics including Kes, Carla’s Song, and I, Daniel Blake, Ken Loach makes what he says will likely be his final film. Set during the cultural assault course of 2016, The Old Oak is about a pub in County Durham, set amid rising tensions as Syrian refugees are welcomed [...]
Fair Play film review: Netflix goes all Basic Instinct with new erotic thriller September 28, 2023 Thirty years ago, Erotic Thrillers were all the rage as movies like Basic Instinct, Fatal Attraction, and Eyes Wide Shut titillated and intrigued. It’s a less popular genre these days, but Netflix is hoping for a revival with new film Fair Play. Phoebe Dynevor and Alden Ehrenreich play Emily and Luke, two financial analysts at [...]
A Year in a Field is a profound documentary about the beauty of nature September 22, 2023 It takes a bold filmmaker to truly make you stop and think about the world. Filmed between the Winter Solstices of 2020 and 2021, when the world was forced to be still, Christopher Morris filmed Boscowen Ros, a 4,000-year-old stone monolith for his ruminative new documentary, A Year in a Field. He observes the areas [...]
Jackie and Spencer filmmaker returns with surreal, comic El Conde September 16, 2023 Oscar winning filmmaker Pablo Larrain is best known to English language audiences for his portrayal of famous women in history, telling the story of a famous First Lady in 2016’s Jackie, and imagining the torment of a princess in 2021’s Spencer. It’s a famous male leader, however, that becomes the subject of his latest work, [...]