Virginia Woolf’s Night & Day is a multi-national adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s second novel, as it shows a young woman fighting against the patriarchal standards of her time. Katharine Hilbery (Haley Bennett) is a budding astronomer in 1910. Her dream is to go to Cambridge and study physics, but she has to fight the male-dominated elite […]
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The Furious Review
Hong Kong was once at the forefront of action cinema the world over. While the ’80s were a time of maximalist, muscular blockbusters flooding out of the United States, the East Asian city (then a British colony) punched well above its weight. Following the work done by Bruce Lee and the Shaw Brothers to soften […]
Disclosure Day Review
Steven Spielberg returns to extraterrestrial sci-fi with the conspiracy thriller Disclosure Day. Daniel Kellner (Josh O’Connor) is on the run with his girlfriend, Jane (Eve Hewson), after stealing information and an advanced device from his employer. This coincides with Margaret Fairchild (Emily Blunt) undergoing a sudden metamorphosis where she develops telekinetic powers and becomes able […]
Savage House Review
Savage House is a darkly comedic and satirical take on British period dramas as everyone in society attempts to climb the social ladder. Sir Chauncey Savage (Richard E. Grant) is the son of a lowly Welshman who married into the prestigious but impoverished Savage Family. Within Savage House, Chauncey and his wife (Claire Foy) are […]
The Amazing Digital Circus: The Last Act Review
The Amazing Digital Circus: The Last Act is the final two episodes of the acclaimed web series, given a special theatrical release. The residents of The Amazing Digital Circus have fallen into a deep depression after their attempt to escape turned out to be an ‘adventure’ made by Caine (Alex Rochon). The ringmaster starts to […]
Masters of the Universe Review
Hailing from an era defined by kids’ cartoons designed purely to sell toys, Masters of the Universe was one of the cheesiest and most ridiculous, especially amongst the few still broadly recognizable this deep into the twenty-first century. It wielded a then-popular blend of high-fantasy and futuristic, space-based sci-fi easily at home on the side […]
Arco Review
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 […]
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 […]










