Ah, children. You love ‘em. You hate ‘em. Sometimes they make you laugh, sometimes they make you scream. Do I want my own children someday? Probably. Do I want my own children after watching this film? I’m starting to question it. Mary Bronstein’s agonisingly cacophonous portrayal of the extremes of motherhood has attracted acclaim for […]
Yes, the title of this Brazilian Best Picture hopeful is a misnomer; The Secret Agent is not a fast-paced thriller about a renegade spy, but instead a dense, layered drama about the wide-spread mundanity of corruption in 1970s Brazil. But don’t let that put you off watching one of the year’s most unique Oscar nominees.
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS (for a 200 year old novel). Look, if you’re going to turn Wuthering Heights, a gothic masterpiece about a tragic, twisted relationship between the doomed Catherine Earnshaw and downtrodden, volatile Heathcliff, into a psychosexual thriller – at least make sure it’s giving me David Cronenberg horny and not barely scraping Bridgerton
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THIS REVIEW CONTAINS NO MAJOR SPOILERS. I was lucky enough this week to attend an early screening of the new horror film Whistle from British director Corin Hardy, who appeared beforehand to introduce the film (and curse us all with its namesake prop). Hardy said he wanted to make his own American high school
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THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS. It feels like a disservice to Park Chan-wook’s singularity that so many people (bar the Academy, but what do they know?) are comparing No Other Choice to Bong Joon-ho’s Oscar-winning masterpiece Parasite. Of course both films are fantastic, but surely we don’t have to suggest every Korean film is the same.
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS. Let’s get it out the way: I loved 28 Years Later. It was number 4 on my Top 10 Films of 2025 (although admittedly having since seen a few extras – Marty Supreme, Hamnet, Sentimental Value, No Other Choice – it would be bumped down the list a bit). Overall
Let’s just establish, for the purposes of this review, that William Shakespeare’s Hamlet is like… the greatest work of literature in the English language. You can agree to disagree, but for the purposes of watching Chloé Zhao’s Hamnet, it is best to go in with that mentality. The film tells us at its opening that
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THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS. I find myself in a difficult position with the Avatar franchise. I enjoyed the first: the accusations of plotlessness don’t really ring that true in my opinion, and of course everyone knows it looks fucking incredible. The Way of Water, however, was decidedly NOT my thing, although seeing it on
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS. If you don’t know Marty Mauser, I suggest you head to the cinema and get swiftly acquainted. And if you don’t know the Safdie brothers… I would maybe suggest watching a couple of their previous films (Good Time & Uncut Gems in particular) before heading into this one. Marty Supreme,
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS. I have a confession to make. I… am a Five Nights at Freddy’s fan. Not just a casual fan either. Being freshly 13 when the first game was released (August 8th, 2014), and getting into horror for the first time, I was the prime target to be swept up by
