Anora is a comedy-drama by celebrated indie filmmaker Sean Baker and the winner of the 2024 Palme d’Or. Anora “Ani” Mikheeva (Mikey Madison) is a stripper and escort working in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn. One night she’s hired by the son of a Russian oligarch, Ivan “Vanya” Zakharov (Mark Eydelshteyn) because she’s able to speak Russian. […]
Film Reviews
The Apprentice Review
Donald Trump is one of the most divisive public figures in the world with his early real estate career and his relationship with the controversial lawyer Roy Cohn serving as the subject of the biopic The Apprentice. The year is 1973, Donald Trump (Sebastian Stan) is the son of real estate developer Fred Trump (Martin […]
The Wild Robot Review
Chris Sanders returns to Dreamworks Animation for the first time since 2013’s The Croods. This time he adapts Peter Brown’s award-winning children’s novel The Wild Robot. A Universal Dynamics robot, ROZZUM Unit 7134, (Lupita Nyong’o), or Roz for short, washes up on a remote island with no human inhabitants. The robot sets out to find […]
Salem’s Lot (2024) Review
Stephen King’s Salem’s Lot gets its third adaptation, with Gary Dauberman directing his second film and James Wan acting as a producer. Ben Mears (Lewis Pullman) is a writer who returns to his hometown of Jerusalem’s Lot, Maine. He plans to use his time to research and write his next novel. However, his time back […]
Smile 2 Review
Paramount Pictures had a massive hit with Smile, earning $217 million from a $17 million budget, and was critically acclaimed. A sequel was inevitable, and it has been released with a new cast of characters. Skye Riley (Naomi Scott) is a pop star who plans a comeback after the death of her famous boyfriend (Ray […]
Conclave Review
When one hears the phrase “Catholic Church thriller,” I suspect one thinks immediately of something like a Dan Brown/Da Vinci Code-type film, with dead bodies of Cardinals appearing in fountains in Rome and potentially blasphemous revelations about Catholic Dogma. Conclave, a new film being marketed as a thriller (and adapted from Thomas Harris’ novel of […]
Terrifier 3 Review
Art the Clown returns for a third entry in the Terrifier series and tortures and kills his way through Miles County. Sienna Shaw (Lauren LaVera) has been released from a psychiatric hospital, having suffered from trauma and survivor’s guilt. Sienna moves in with her Aunt Jessica (Margaret Anne Florence) and her family during Christmas. Sadly, […]
Transformers One Review
It has been 39 years since the Transformers series made its cinematic debut with The Transformers: The Movie. Transformers One sees everyone’s favourite Autobots and Decepticons have their first cinematic animated adventure since the 1980s. Orion Pax (Chris Hemsworth) and D-16 (Brian Tyree Henry) are lowly miner bots who can’t transform. Even though the pair […]
Joker: Folie à Deux Review
In 2019 Joker blasted onto screens, being the first R-rated film to cross the billion-dollar barrier, earning 11 Oscar nominations and winning two of them. The sequel has now been released and has a lot of expectation placed upon it. It has been two years since Arthur Fleck (Joaquin Phoenix) took on his Joker persona […]
Home Sweet Home: Where Evil Lives Review
Home Sweet Home: Where Evil Lives is a German horror-thriller that tells its story in one continuous take. Maria (Nilam Farooq) is a heavily pregnant woman who moves into her husband’s family home. She plans to convert the home into a bed-and-breakfast. Upon Maria’s arrival, the house’s electrics start to falter, Maria experiences problems with […]