No Other Choice is Park Chan-wook’s adaptation of the horror novel The Ax and changes its setting and themes to modern South Korea. Yoo Man-su (Lee Byung-hun) is a manager at a paper company that gets bought by an American firm, resulting in Man-su losing his job. When Man-su is unable to find another job […]
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Mercy Review
Mercy is an attempt at a topical sci-fi thriller by focusing on artificial intelligence and surveillance in the near future. Los Angeles is suffering violent crime, high unemployment, and homelessness, with a justice system unable to cope. This has led the city to introduce a radical solution, the Mercy Court, where suspects of violent crime […]
Song Sung Blue (2025) Review
Song Sung Blue is a dramatisation of the 2008 documentary of the same name, with Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson playing Milwaukee’s most popular Neil Diamond tribute act. Mike Sardina (Jackman) is a musician who finds a like-minded woman, Claire (Kate Hudson), and they quickly become musical and romantic partners. They became a popular act […]
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple Review
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple is the fourth entry in the 28 Days Later series and a direct sequel to 28 Years Later. Spike (Alfie Williams) gets induced by The Fingers after being forced to compete in a fight to the death. This group is controlled by Sir Lord Jimmy Crystal (Jack O’Connell), who […]
Rental Family Review
Rental Family is Hikari’s follow-up to her critically acclaimed debut, 37 Seconds, and it shows the Japanese filmmaker can make something that can appeal to both Japanese and Western audiences. Philip Vanderploeg (Brendan Fraser) is an American actor who has lived in Japan for ten years. Philip gets offered an unusual job when he meets […]
Nuremberg Review
At the end of the second world war, preparations are being made to put Hermann Göring (Russell Crowe) and the surviving members of the Nazi high command on trial for crimes against humanity. As part of this, an army psychiatrist named Douglas Kelley (Rami Malek) is brought in to assess the mental health of the […]
Giant Review
Giant is a biopic about the famous lightweight boxer Naseem Hamed, told through the eyes of his manager/trainer, Brendan Ingle. Brendan Ingle (Pierce Brosnan) runs a boxing club in the Wincobank district of Sheffield. After stopping some National Front thugs harassing a local shop, Ingle meets the Hamed family and Mrs Hamed (Elika Ashoori), asks […]
We Bury the Dead Review
While the zombie movie refuses to die, it’s certainly not thriving. In the years since the onset of COVID-19, only a handful of films featuring the archetypal monster in one form or another get released every year, and vanishingly few cause a stir. It should come as no surprise that audiences cannot get excited about […]
Marty Supreme Review
Marty Supreme is a sports drama loosely inspired by the life of table tennis player Marty Reisman. It is seen as one of the leading award contenders of the 2026 season. Marty Mauser (Timothée Chalamet) is a New York shoe salesman and a table tennis player, who’s set to play in the British Open in […]
The Housemaid Review
The Housemaid is a domestic psychological thriller based on a novel by Freida McFadden and pits a young starlet and Oscar-nominated actress against each other. Millie Calloway (Sydney Sweeney) is a young woman who served 10 years of a 15-year prison sentence. She applies for a job to be a live-in maid for a wealthy […]










