- January 14, 2026
Rental Family review – Brendan Fraser shines in…
Since playing a toothpaste superhero in an advertisement, down-on-his-luck actor Phillip Vanderploeg (Brendan Fraser) has been living in Tokyo for several years and further opportunities have
Giant review – another tired boxing biopic for…
It’s nearing a quarter-century since the retirement of “Prince” Naseem Hamed, Sheffield’s world champion boxer of Yemeni heritage. For a while, in the run-up to the new
Peter Hujar’s Day review – Ira Sachs’ best film…
It’s only a matter of time before kids are doing the Peter (Hujar) Pilgrimage: a leisurely photographer’s stroll down New York’s 2nd Avenue on the Lower East
Marty Supreme review – Josh Safdie working at a…
I’m really in pursuit of greatness,” Timotheé Chalamet announced in February 2025 while accepting the Screen Actor’s Guild Award for Male Actor in a Leading Role.
Bowie: The Final Act review – revisiting the…
In 2016, David Bowie’s death shook the world like a supernova – a deliberately-staged explosion that collapsed a lifetime of personas into a single, blinding point of closure. Ten years
It’s a Wrap: 2025 in Film
Emily Maskell Five personal favourite films of 2025 Sentimental Value (Joachim Trier) Sorry, Baby (Eva Victor) April (Dea Kulumbegashvili) Flow (Gints Zilbalodis) On Falling (Laura Carreira)
The Housemaid review – what a mess
I first became acquainted with Freida McFadden’s New York Times bestselling thriller ‘The Housemaid’ earlier in 2025, when I stumbled across a YouTube video entitled “Is this
The 10 best TV shows of 2025
From Star Wars canon expansion to the conclusion of a university-set sitcom and Vince Gilligan’s highly anticipated return to the small screen, here are our TV
The 30 best films of 2025
1. One Battle After Another We’ll be honest: in the run-up to the release of Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another, we had no
Coming of age with Rob Reiner
“It was the summer of 1959, a long time ago. But only if you measure it in terms of years.” Richard Dreyfuss is desolate-looking in a truck
