Megalopolis was a film that was 40 years in the making, a passion project that saw Francis Ford Coppola return to filmmaking for the first time in 13 years. New Rome is a city on the edge. Mayor Franklyn Cicero (Giancarlo Esposito) is unpopular and in conflict with Cesar Catilina (Adam Driver), an architect and […]
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Never Let Go Review
Never Let Go comes from the production company behind Stranger Things and sees Halle Berry star in a small-scale survival horror film. In the woods is a woman (Berry) and her twin sons Nolan (Percy Daggs IV) and Samuel (Anthony B. Jenkins). A great evil has destroyed the world and it wants to infiltrate the […]
Speak No Evil (2024) Review
The Danish horror-thriller Speak No Evil has earned a Hollywood remake with Blumhouse producing it, with James McAvoy as the lead. Ben and Louise Dalton (Scoot McNairy and Mackenzie Davis) are on a family vacation in Italy where they meet another family, Paddy and Ciara (McAvoy and Aisling Franciosi), and their son Ant (Dan Hough). […]
Lee Review
Lee Miller was a war photographer who worked for Vogue during the Second World War. Her story gets put to screen with Kate Winslet starring as this remarkable woman and serving as one of the film’s producers. In 1938, Lee Miller was an ex-model and socialite who was a part of the artistic scene in […]
The Substance Review
The Substance is the second film from French director Coralie Fargeat. What she provided is the most stomach-churning film of 2024. Elisabeth Sparkle (Demi Moore) is a former movie star who has fallen on hard times. She’s 50 and seen as too old to front a breakfast TV aerobics show. When Elisabeth is at a […]
Charlotte (2024) Review
Charlotte is an indie British thriller that premiered at Frightfest 2024 and is now available on Amazon Prime. Roy (Dean Kilbey) is a man who lives alone in the middle of the Yorkshire Dales. He is on the sex offenders register, banned from internet access, and is spot-checked by the police. One night a young […]
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Review
Beetlejuice joins the likes of Blade Runner, Ghostbusters, and Top Gun as an ‘80s property to earn a legacy sequel and acted as Tim Burton’s return to filmmaking after a five-year break. Since her encounter with Betelgeuse (Michael Keaton) as a teenager, Lydia Deetz (Winona Ryder) has become a ghost whisperer and TV personality. Lydia’s […]
AfrAId Review
It has been hard to avoid the growth of AI over the past few years and has been marketed as the technology that could revolutionise the world. Fears about AI serve as the influence on the Blumhouse horror-thriller AfrAId. Curtis Pike (John Cho) is a marketing expert assigned an account for an advanced digital assistant, […]
Blink Twice Review
Blink Twice is the directional debut for Zoë Kravitz and serves as a psychological thriller, a dark comedy, and a feminist tale. Frida (Naomi Ackie) and Jess (Alia Shawkat) are friends and roommates who work as waitresses at an event for the King Foundation. Frida and Jess use their job to pretend to be guests […]
A Greyhound of a Girl Review
A Greyhound of a Girl is a pan-European animated film based on a children’s novel by Roddy Doyle and follows a young girl as she lives through a great upheaval. Mary O’Hara (Mia O’Connor) is a young girl who aspires to be a chef and is close with her fun-loving but no-nonsense grandmother, Emer (Rosaleen […]