Poor Things sees three major players from The Favourite, Yorgos Lanthimos, Tony McNamara, and Emma Stone return for an adaptation of Alasdair Gray’s 1992 novel. Godwin Baxter (Willem Dafoe) is a brilliant surgeon who conducts amoral experiments at home. One of his experiments is Bella Baxter (Emma Stone), a woman with the mind of a child. Godwin hires […]
Film Reviews
Night Swim Review
Night Swim is the first cinematic horror film of 2024, taking the traditional January horror slot. This film sees a family who are haunted by a malicious swimming film. The Waller family move to Minnesota due to the family patriarch; Ray (Wyatt Russell) being forced to retire from professional baseball. They seem to have found the perfect home […]
Napoleon (2023) Review
Napoleon Bonaparte is considered one of the most influential men in history. His legacy and impact have lasted long past his death, as well as his divisive reputation. The story of his life is chronicled in Ridley Scott’s 2023 epic for Sony and Apple. In 1789 France was in chaos. The royal family had been […]
One Life Review
Nicholas Winton is a famous humanitarian who helped save 669 children from German-occupied Czechoslovakia. His story is dramatised in the film One Life. In 1938 Nicholas Winton (Johnny Flynn) is a stockbroker who travels to Prague to help the British Refugee Council with the evacuation of political refugees. However, when Winton visits a refugee camp […]
The Boy and the Heron Review
Hayao Miyazaki is a legend of Japanese animation, making numerous classics like My Neighbour Totoro, Princess Mononoke, and Spirited Away. After a 10-year break, Miyazaki has returned with possibly his last film, The Boy and the Heron. Mahito Maki (Luca Padovan) is a young boy who loses his mother during an Allied bombing raid on Tokyo during the Second […]
Godzilla Minus One Review
Godzilla is one of Japan’s greatest cultural exports, appearing in 33 Japanese films and five American films. Godzilla Minus One acts as an origins story for the King of the Monsters. Kōichi Shikishima (Ryunosuke Kamiki) is a kamikaze pilot during the dying days of World War II. On Odo Island he sees a Japanese garrison get killed […]
The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes Review
The Hunger Games movie series has returned after an eight-year break with an adaptation of the prequel novel The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes. It has been 10 years since the failed rebellion against The Capitol. As punishment, the Districts of Panem must send two tributes aged between 12 to 18 to fight in the annual Hunger Games. […]
Rebel Moon – Part One: A Child of Fire Review
Rebel Moon – Part One: A Child of Fire is a space opera Zack Snyder and Netflix plan to use as a launching pad for a franchise. It is already a film that has stirred a lot of debate. Kora (Sofia Boutella) is a woman who lives in a simple farming community on the moon of Veldt. […]
Aquaman and The Lost Kingdom Review
The DCEU has come to an end with the sequel to 2018’s Aquaman, the billion-dollar film in the series. Four years after the events of Aquaman, Arthur Curry (Jason Momoa) is king of Atlantis, married to Mera (Amber Heard), and has a son with her. However, David Kane/Black Manta (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II) is desperate for revenge against […]
Journey to Bethlehem Review
The Nativity Story is one of the most famous ever told and the bedrock for Christmas. It gets a musical retelling with Journey to Bethlehem. Mary (Fiona Palomo) is a teenage girl who is betrothed to Joseph (Milo Manheim), a man she has never met. She had even more pressure thrust upon her when the archangel […]