Everything Everywhere All At Once, the latest genre-defying masterpiece from filmmaking duo Daniels, is one of those movies that is next to impossible to write about. It’s so weird and so dense, with each new plot development somehow being stranger than the last. I don’t want to go into too much detail about its plotline, […]
Film Reviews
The Bad Guys Review
Dreamworks’ latest film The Bad Guys is based on a graphic novel by Aaron Blabey. This animated crime caper asks the question of whether stereotypes should dictate someone’s role in society. Mr. Wolf (Sam Rockwell) is the leader of the Bad Guys gang. After the governor, Diane Foxington (Zazie Beetz) makes a personal attack against the gang, Wolf […]
Ambulance Review
Ambulance is a film with a plot that can be summed up in one sentence: a couple of bank robbers hijack an ambulance after a robbery goes wrong. Michael Bay uses this concept for a smaller-scale film by his standards. Will Sharp (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II) is a veteran who’s desperate for money to pay for his […]
Umma Review
The 2010s saw the rise of elevated horror movies. These are horror films that have dramatic elements or a wider theme and have often been well-received by critics. Iris K. Shim has gone to this subgenre for her feature debut, Umma. Amanda (Sandra Oh) is a Korean American woman who lives on a farm with […]
The Nan Movie Review
The Catherine Tate Show was a sketch comedy show that propelled Catherine Tate into stardom in the 2000s. One of the most popular characters from the series was Joanie Taylor, AKA Nan, and she gets a cinematic adventure for British audiences. Joanie gets a letter from her sister, Nell (Katherine Parkinson) saying she’s dying and wants […]
X Review
X sees horror filmmaker Ti West and the acclaimed production company A24 team up for the ‘70s set slasher flick. In 1979, a small team of actors and a crew from Houston go to a farm to film a pornographic film. The team included Maxine Minx (Mia Goth), a cocaine-addicted porn star, and her producer boyfriend, […]
Jujutsu Kaisen 0 Review
Jujutsu Kaisen 0 is a prequel to the manga and anime series Jujutsu Kaisen. This prequel shows how Yuta Okkotsu joined Jujustu High and must face a great threat towards Japan. Yuta (Kayleigh McKee) is a 16-year-old who’s embedded with the spirit of his dead childhood girlfriend, Rika Orimoto (Anairis Quiñones). When Rika kills Yuta’s high school bully […]
The Duke Review
The Duke is a comedy-drama about how one man used the theft of Goya’s portrait of the Duke of Wellington as a way to enact social change in 1960s Britain. Kempton Bunton (Jim Broadbent) is a taxi driver in Newcastle and a political campaigner with a confrontational personality. Kempton’s campaigning ways lead to him getting imprisoned for not […]
The Phantom of the Open Review
Maurice Flitcroft has a reputation for being the worst golfer ever after he achieved the highest score when competing in the 1976 British Open. The story of this plucky underdog gets a cinematic retelling with the comedy-drama The Phantom of the Open. Maurice Flitcroft (Mark Rylance) is a crane driver at Vickers Shipyard in Barrow-in-Furness. […]
The Batman Review
Batman is one of the most enduring superheroes, having a legacy of over 80 years. Robert Pattinson is the latest actor to take on the role with Matt Reeves putting his own spin on the franchise. Bruce Wayne (Pattinson) has been Batman for two years. Gotham is still a crime-infested hellhole and plagued with social […]