Pretty Lethal is an Amazon Prime exclusive, produced by 87North Productions, the company behind films like Nobody and Bullet Train. A dysfunctional ballet troupe is set to compete in an international competition in Budapest. Their journey to the Hungarian capital takes a detour because of a diverted flight and a broken-down bus. When the troupe […]
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They Will Kill You Review
They Will Kill You is an action-horror-comedy hybrid that is a part of a trio of films about women released in quick succession. Asia Reaves (Zazie Beetz) is a woman who has served a 10-year prison sentence and sets out to find her sister. Asia takes up a job at the execlusive Virgil club in […]
Ready or Not 2: Here I Come Review
The directing duo Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett have returned to the world of Ready or Not for a bigger sequel. Ready or Not 2: Here I Come picks up where Ready or Not left off: Grace MacCaullay (Samara Weaving) has survived playing a lethal game of hide and seek and nearly being sacrificed by […]
Ready or Not Review
Ready or Not was the second feature film made by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett, AKA Radio Silence (fourth if their work on anthology films gets included), and arguably the film that cemented their reputations as horror-comedy filmmakers. Grace (Samara Weaving) marries into the Le Domas family, owners of the Le Domas Family Games company. […]
Project Hail Mary Review
Project Hail Mary is a big-budget sci-fi film based on Andy Weir’s third novel, which sees the fate of Earth rest on Ryan Gosling’s shoulders. Dr. Ryland Grace (Gosling) awakes on a spacecraft with no memory about how he got there or what his mission is. Slowly, Grace’s memory comes back, and he remembers that […]
The Bride! Review
The Bride! is Maggie Gyllenhaal’s second film as a writer/director. She goes from an awards-contending drama to a big-budget Gothic romance inspired by Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and the 1935 movie The Bride of Frankenstein. Frankenstein’s Monster (Christian Bale) arrives in Chicago in 1936 to find a brilliant but controversial scientist, Dr. Euphronious (Annette Bening). Frank […]
Mother’s Pride Review
The team that made the Fisherman’s Friends films has moved up from Cornwall to Somerset for their recent comedy-drama inspired by true events. The Drover Arms is a struggling pub in the village of Birchbury. The landlord, Mick Harley (Martin Clunes), is on the verge of losing his family business. Tensions within the family erupt […]
EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert Review
Elvis Presley is recognised as one of the most popular musicians in history. He was the subject of a successful biopic in 2022. When making the film, Baz Luhrmann discovered lost footage and used it for a concert film. I would normally write a plot synopsis when writing reviews. That’s impossible with EPiC since it was […]
Scream 7 Review
Neve Campbell returns to the Scream series after sitting out the Ghostface massacre in New York City. Sidney Evans, nee Prescott (Campbell), lives a quiet life in the town of Pine Grove. She is married to Mark Evans (Joel McHale), the chief of police, has three children, and owns a successful coffee shop. Sidney’s relationship […]
How to Make a Killing Review
How to Make a Killing is an ensemble black comedy inspired by the 1907 novel Israel Rank: The Autobiography of a Criminal and the Ealing Classic Kind Hearts and Coronets. It’s a film aiming to tap into the growing ‘Eat the Rich’ sentiment Becket Redfellow (Glen Powell) is the illegitimate son of the Redfellow dynasty. […]










