Hatching is a Finnish horror film that premiered at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival. This film acts as a body horror, a psychological piece, and a critique of modern society. Tinja (Siiri Solalinna) is a 12-year-old gymnast who seems to have a perfect family life. Her Mother (Sophia Heikkilä) is a vlogger who projects this image […]
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Hit the Road Review
Hit the Road is an Iranian road film that won plaudits at the Cannes and London film festivals. Farid (Amin Simiar) plans to cross the Iranian-Turkish border and seek a better life abroad. His mother (Pantea Panahiha) does not want Farid to make the trip alone and his father, Khosro (Hassan Madjooni) had made the arrangements […]
Three Thousands Years of Longing Review
Three Thousand Years of Longing is George Miller’s big follow-up to his 2015 hit Mad Max Fury Road. This time he makes a modern fairy tale that’s a bold yet divisive film. Alithea Binnie (Tilda Swinton) is a narratologist who goes to Istanbul for a conference. Whilst exploring the Grand Bazaar she buys a glass bottle. At […]
Tomorrow Morning Review
Tomorrow Morning is a musical movie based on an Off-Broadway show with West End stars Samantha Barks and Ramin Karimloo in the lead roles. Catherine (Barks) and Bill (Karimloo) are a couple who have been married for 10 years. However, they are about to separate and the pair reflect on the beginning of their relationship. Before […]
Fall Review
Fall is a small-scale survival-thriller that is about the perils of climbing and heights. Becky (Grace Caroline Currey) has been in a year-long depression after the death of her husband during a climbing accident. Her friend, Hunter (Virginia Gardner), believes Becky needs closure and suggests climbing an abandoned TV tower in the middle of the desert. However, things go […]
Mr. Malcolm’s List Review
Mr. Malcolm’s List is a romantic period drama based on a novel by Suzanne Allain. This was a film with an air of Jane Austen and Bridgerton to it. Jeremy Malcolm (Ṣọpẹ Dìrísù) is the most eligible and desired bachelor in London. One of his suitors is Julia Thistlewaite (Zawe Ashton), but she gets publicly embarrassed after their […]
Beast Review
Sharks, whales, wolves, and bears served as the villains in the movies to show the rampart force of nature. Lions have also gotten this treatment with Beast. Nate Samuels (Idris Elba) is a doctor and widower who takes his daughters to South Africa. They met Nate’s old friend and gamekeeper, Martin (Sharlto Copley) who takes the […]
The Invitation Review
The Invitation is a female-centric horror film that aimed to have a gothic twist. Evie (Nathalie Emmanuel) is a struggling artist in New York City. She takes a DNA test and discovers that she’s related to the English aristocracy. This leads to Evie flying out to England to meet her family and attend a wedding. However, there are […]
Nitram Review
The Port Arthur massacre in 1996 is considered one of Australia’s greatest tragedies. It had a major impact on the nation and it serves as the topic for Justin Kurzel’s fifth film. Caleb Landry Jones stars as ‘Nitram,’ an intelligentially disabled man who has anti-social behaviour issues. He has a strained relationship with his mother […]
Fisherman’s Friends: One and All Review
The Fisherman’s Friends have become incredibly popular over the last decade. They have released albums, had a film that was released in 2019, and a musical has been produced based on that film. The second Fisherman’s Friends film focuses on the group performing on the Pyramid Stage at Glastonbury. Fisherman’s Friends: One and All takes place a year […]