Review – Downton Abbey: A New Era – Come for the Dame, Stay for the Haddock.
The Venn diagram overlap containing viewers of Ari Aster’s Midsommar and Downton Abbey: A New Era can’t be large. Although radically...
Read MoreThe Lost City Nearly has the Right Formula. It’s just Missing the Sex.
Escaping to a desert island. Sounds amazing, doesn’t it? Hollywood agrees, having recently released this and this. Add a steamy, romantic...
Read MoreFantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore is a Love Letter to Magical Masculinity
There is still a great deal of goodwill for the Wizarding World. So much so, that Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore is now the...
Read MoreReview: Sonic the Hedgehog 2 is Bursting with Ideas
For gamers, there are few more agonising sounds than the PLING! of Sonic the Hedgehog losing his gold rings, knowing he must scramble to...
Read MoreReview: Marry Me is Schrödinger’s Romcom
It’s at times like these that my mind wanders to Schrödinger’s Cat. Writers love to meme a scientific concept out of all...
Read MoreReview: Uncharted – “Brings the Great Game to Great Movie crossover much closer”
It’s a running joke that movies based on video games are bad, so maybe Hollywood should stop making them. But then something in...
Read MoreReview: The 355 – “Girls, guns…and more girls”
Violence and feminism are interesting bedfellows, growing a little closer with the arrival of The 355 from Freckle Films (Jessica...
Read MoreReview: Memoria – “A one-of-a-kind experience”
Memoria is a one-of-a-kind experience; immersive and strange. It unfolds unlike other films, even from its first thirty seconds. Usually,...
Read MoreReview: The Tender Bar is a Ben Affleck film
George Clooney’s list of directed projects makes for fascinating reading. He’s made high drama, surreal comedy and everything...
Read MoreReview: King Richard is “crowd-pleasing, uplifting and not your standard biopic”
“Who is the power behind the throne?” is a question that assumes as much as it asks. Usually applied to dynasties, cementing...
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