Hayao Miyazaki is a legend of Japanese animation, making numerous classics like My Neighbour Totoro, Princess Mononoke, and Spirited Away. After a 10-year break, Miyazaki has returned with possibly his last film, The Boy and the Heron. Mahito Maki (Luca Padovan) is a young boy who loses his mother during an Allied bombing raid on Tokyo during the Second […]
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The Batman Review
Batman is one of the most enduring superheroes, having a legacy of over 80 years. Robert Pattinson is the latest actor to take on the role with Matt Reeves putting his own spin on the franchise. Bruce Wayne (Pattinson) has been Batman for two years. Gotham is still a crime-infested hellhole and plagued with social […]
The Lighthouse – A Voyage Through Purgatory
On the surface, Robert Eggers’ The Lighthouse is a story about two lighthouse keepers driven to insanity. However, nothing is at seems in this film. Like Eggers’ first film The Witch, The Lighthouse is a period piece. Set in the late 1890s, the film’s two main characters, Thomas Wake (Willem Dafoe) and Thomas Howard (Robert […]
The King Review
The King is the most recent film that retells to the story of Henry V and his 1415 campaign in France. It comes across as the English version of Braveheart. Prince Henry (Timothée Chalament), or Hal to his friends, is the reluctant heir to the English throne. He is a disappointment to his father (Ben […]
Tenet Review
Cinemas around the world are starting to reopen and the big test for theatrical films is the release of Christopher Nolan’s Tenet. After a mission in Kyiv, an unnamed CIA agent (John David Washington) gets recruited by a secret organisation that gives him two leads, a hand gesture and the word “tenet.” The agent gets […]
Damsel Review
Damsel is an indie Western that gives the genre a feminist twist. Samuel Alabaster (Robert Pattinson) arrives on American Frontier with the intent to propose and marry his sweetheart, Penelope (Mia Wasikowska). Samuel hires the local priest, Parson Henry (David Zellner) to travel into the wilderness to surprise Penelope. But Samuel reveals that Penelope had […]