The directing duo Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett have returned to the world of Ready or Not for a bigger sequel. Ready or Not 2: Here I Come picks up where Ready or Not left off: Grace MacCaullay (Samara Weaving) has survived playing a lethal game of hide and seek and nearly being sacrificed by […]
Author: Kieran Freemantle
Ready or Not Review
Ready or Not was the second feature film made by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett, AKA Radio Silence (fourth if their work on anthology films gets included), and arguably the film that cemented their reputations as horror-comedy filmmakers. Grace (Samara Weaving) marries into the Le Domas family, owners of the Le Domas Family Games company. […]
Project Hail Mary Review
Project Hail Mary is a big-budget sci-fi film based on Andy Weir’s third novel, which sees the fate of Earth rest on Ryan Gosling’s shoulders. Dr. Ryland Grace (Gosling) awakes on a spacecraft with no memory about how he got there or what his mission is. Slowly, Grace’s memory comes back, and he remembers that […]
The Bride! Review
The Bride! is Maggie Gyllenhaal’s second film as a writer/director. She goes from an awards-contending drama to a big-budget Gothic romance inspired by Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and the 1935 movie The Bride of Frankenstein. Frankenstein’s Monster (Christian Bale) arrives in Chicago in 1936 to find a brilliant but controversial scientist, Dr. Euphronious (Annette Bening). Frank […]
Mother’s Pride Review
The team that made the Fisherman’s Friends films has moved up from Cornwall to Somerset for their recent comedy-drama inspired by true events. The Drover Arms is a struggling pub in the village of Birchbury. The landlord, Mick Harley (Martin Clunes), is on the verge of losing his family business. Tensions within the family erupt […]
EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert Review
Elvis Presley is recognised as one of the most popular musicians in history. He was the subject of a successful biopic in 2022. When making the film, Baz Luhrmann discovered lost footage and used it for a concert film. I would normally write a plot synopsis when writing reviews. That’s impossible with EPiC since it was […]
Scream 7 Review
Neve Campbell returns to the Scream series after sitting out the Ghostface massacre in New York City. Sidney Evans, nee Prescott (Campbell), lives a quiet life in the town of Pine Grove. She is married to Mark Evans (Joel McHale), the chief of police, has three children, and owns a successful coffee shop. Sidney’s relationship […]
How to Make a Killing Review
How to Make a Killing is an ensemble black comedy inspired by the 1907 novel Israel Rank: The Autobiography of a Criminal and the Ealing Classic Kind Hearts and Coronets. It’s a film aiming to tap into the growing ‘Eat the Rich’ sentiment Becket Redfellow (Glen Powell) is the illegitimate son of the Redfellow dynasty. […]
Hoppers Review
Hoppers is the first of two films to be released by Pixar in 2026. This offering is an environmentally themed comedy. Mabel Tanaka (Piper Curda) is an animal lover and passionate environmental activist. She is determined to preserve The Glare from being turned into an expressway. When Mabel discovers her university professor, Dr. Sam (Kathy […]
Cold Storage Review
Cold Storage is a sci-fi horror comedy from screenwriter David Koepp, adapting his own novel for the big screen. After an infectious fungus kills everyone in a small town in Australia, the US military takes it and puts it in a facility in the Atchison Caves. Over the course of 20 years, the facility has […]










