Arco is an animated film from France that explores themes of family and the environment and serves as Ugo Bienvenu’s feature debut film. Arco Dorell (Juliano Krue Valdi) is a 10-year-old boy in the distant future where time travel is possible. He wants to travel back in time and see dinosaurs, but only children older […]
Film Reviews
Backrooms Review
How do you adapt a no-budget, avant-garde, YouTube-based anthology series like Backrooms into a mainstream feature film? You could point to Skinamarink as an experimental horror that received a theatrical release. But it was acquired out of a festival, and never reached one thousand screens. Conversely, A24 approached Kane Parsons about adapting his own series into […]
Tuner Review
Tuner is a crime drama directed by documentary filmmaker Daniel Roher, serving as his narrative film debut. Niki White (Leo Woodall) is a piano tuner who suffers from hyperacusis. When he takes a job to tune a piano at a wealthy client’s house, Niki meets Uri (Lior Raz), the owner of a security company who is […]
Passenger Review
Passenger is a film that combines an American road movie with supernatural horror. Tyler (Jacob Scipio) and Maddie (Lou Llobell) are a couple who move out of their Brooklyn apartment and travel America in a van. After witnessing a car accident in Tennessee, Maddie begins to see a scary figure she can’t escape. The couple […]
The Mandalorian and Grogu Review
The Star Wars universe makes its big cinematic return after a seven-year absence. This new adventure sees The Mandalorian make his cinematic debut after leading three seasons of TV. Din Djarin/The Mandalorian (Pedro Pascal) has been working as a bounty hunter for the New Republic. He hunts down Imperial war criminals and brings them to […]
Corporate Retreat Review
The fact that horror is the only genre left that reliably brings in a profit due to its ability to get by on tiny budgets (see: Obsession‘s second week increase on less than $1 million) means there’s just about always a new flick coming out, if you know where to look. The low stakes also […]
Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan: Ghost War Review
Jack Ryan is drawn back into the fold when his old friend Jim Greer asks him for a favour. But when what should have been a simple exchange goes wrong in Dubai, Jack and his CIA pals are forced to work with MI6, as the ghost of black-ops past emerges from the shadows to haunt […]
The Christophers Review
Legendary director Steven Soderbergh and veteran writer Ed Solomon team up for a second feature film. This time, they make a London-set comedy-drama. Lori Butler (Michaela Coel) is an art restorer who receives an unexpected offer from an old friend at art school. Sallie Sklar (Jessica Gunning) and her brother, Barnaby (James Corden), want Lori […]
Finding Emily Review
Finding Emily is a university-set romcom that sees a young man navigate the perils of finding love and modern uni life. Owen Bromptom (Spike Fearn) is a sound engineer who works at Manchester City University. He meets a girl called Emily (Sadie Soverall) and the pair have an instant connection. Sadly, for Owen, he got […]
Obsession Review
Obsession is Curry Barker’s first theatrical film and uses the opportunity to explore toxic relationships through a cursed-wish story. Bear (Michael Johnston) has been in love with his friend, Nikki (Inde Navarrette), ever since they were kids. He never had the courage to tell her his feelings. Instead of saying anything to Nikki, Bear makes […]










