- April 2, 2026
Fuze review – popcorn fair that fizzles out…
For those not intimately familiar with the topographical and historical minutiae of the UK, the relatively blasé way in which the British public react to
My Undesirable Friends: Part I – Last Air in…
In 1971, French filmmaker Jacques Rivette made a 13-hour opus called Out 1. Its extended runtime was necessary to encompass the full sweep of an unstable
Pompei: Below the Clouds review – a stimulating…
The inner lives of buildings and institutions provide an intriguing and enlivening way of looking at the modern landscape, particularly through film. Just as human
Fallen Star: In Praise of The Man Who Fell To Earth
From there, he goes into seclusion in the dry Southwestern landscapes that likely remind him most of home, inadvertently retreating further from his mission and
Ready or Not 2: Here I Come review – here comes…
When you have a hit film these days, inevitably the question always arises about a sequel. There’s very little studios love more than a bit of valuable IP,
Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice – first-look review
Aside from the latest version of The Naked Gun, action comedies have suffered a recent dry spell. Many of the latest movies full of flying fists and
Scarlet review – a disappointing offering from an…
Across his two-decade feature career, Mamoru Hosada has stuck to a handful of thematic preoccupations. Family in all its complexity; forgiveness over revenge, and an earnest
Reminders of Him review – Colleen Hoover strikes…
No film critic was ever going to have high hopes for Reminders of Him, the latest adaptation in the Colleen Hoover cinematic universe, where disconcertingly attractive
Sound Of Falling review – a complex puzzle box…
The old adage ‘History doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme’ lies at the heart of Mascha Schilinski’s Sound of Falling, in which four generations of
If you don’t play, you can’t win: Desert Hearts…
Forty years on, the film is often branded ‘the lesbian Brokeback Mountain’. Though it’s a rather lazy point of comparison (not least because it predates both
