The Substance is the second film from French director Coralie Fargeat. What she provided is the most stomach-churning film of 2024. Elisabeth Sparkle (Demi Moore) is a former movie star who has fallen on hard times. She’s 50 and seen as too old to front a breakfast TV aerobics show. When Elisabeth is at a […]
Author: Kieran Freemantle
Charlotte (2024) Review
Charlotte is an indie British thriller that premiered at Frightfest 2024 and is now available on Amazon Prime. Roy (Dean Kilbey) is a man who lives alone in the middle of the Yorkshire Dales. He is on the sex offenders register, banned from internet access, and is spot-checked by the police. One night a young […]
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Review
Beetlejuice joins the likes of Blade Runner, Ghostbusters, and Top Gun as an ‘80s property to earn a legacy sequel and acted as Tim Burton’s return to filmmaking after a five-year break. Since her encounter with Betelgeuse (Michael Keaton) as a teenager, Lydia Deetz (Winona Ryder) has become a ghost whisperer and TV personality. Lydia’s […]
AfrAId Review
It has been hard to avoid the growth of AI over the past few years and has been marketed as the technology that could revolutionise the world. Fears about AI serve as the influence on the Blumhouse horror-thriller AfrAId. Curtis Pike (John Cho) is a marketing expert assigned an account for an advanced digital assistant, […]
Blink Twice Review
Blink Twice is the directional debut for Zoë Kravitz and serves as a psychological thriller, a dark comedy, and a feminist tale. Frida (Naomi Ackie) and Jess (Alia Shawkat) are friends and roommates who work as waitresses at an event for the King Foundation. Frida and Jess use their job to pretend to be guests […]
A Greyhound of a Girl Review
A Greyhound of a Girl is a pan-European animated film based on a children’s novel by Roddy Doyle and follows a young girl as she lives through a great upheaval. Mary O’Hara (Mia O’Connor) is a young girl who aspires to be a chef and is close with her fun-loving but no-nonsense grandmother, Emer (Rosaleen […]
The Crow (2024) Review
The Crow reboot has spent a long time in development, having directors like Stephen Norrington (Blade), Juan Carlos Fresnadillo (28 Weeks Later), and Corin Hardy (The Nun) and stars as Bradley Cooper, Luke Evans, and Jason Momoa attached. It finally came to life with Rupert Sanders directing and Bill SkarsgÃ¥rd in the title role. Eric […]
I Saw the TV Glow Review
I Saw the TV Glow is a surreal coming-of-age drama, that serves as the second film by Jane Schoenbrun and the second part of their Screen Trilogy. Owen (Ian Foreman/Justice Smith) is a lonely and awkward seventh grader who meets Maddy (Brigette Lundy-Paine), a ninth-grade girl who enjoys the young adult show The Pink Opaque. […]
Pitch Time: His Dark Materials Film Trilogy
Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy is one of my favourite book series and as a wannabe filmmaker, adapting the trilogy would be one of my dream projects. So, I will propose how I would envision His Dark Materials as a film trilogy. Northern Lights (or The Golden Compass in America) was originally published in […]
Alien: Romulus Review
The Alien franchise has had a long history of ups and downs across many forms of media. Alien: Romulus is the first movie in the franchise to be made after Disney’s takeover of 20th Century Fox. Rain (Cailee Spaeny) is a miner on the Weyland-Yutani colony of Jackson. When her contract is forcibly extended Rain […]