Mickey 17 is Bong Joon-ho’s long-awaited follow-up to his Academy Award-winning film Parasite and his first English-language film since Okja. Mickey Barnes (Robert Pattinson) signs up for a colonisation expedition to the planet Nifheim to avoid a violent loan shark. The only job he can get is being an expendable, someone who does dangerous jobs and when he […]
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Companion Review
From the team that brought audiences the horror hit Barbarian and the studio of The Notebook is a darkly funny film about a toxic relationship. Iris (Sophie Thatcher) and Josh (Jack Quaid) are a couple in love and plan to spend the weekend at a Russian oligarch’s lake house. Iris is given a chance to […]
The Wild Robot Review
Chris Sanders returns to Dreamworks Animation for the first time since 2013’s The Croods. This time he adapts Peter Brown’s award-winning children’s novel The Wild Robot. A Universal Dynamics robot, ROZZUM Unit 7134, (Lupita Nyong’o), or Roz for short, washes up on a remote island with no human inhabitants. The robot sets out to find […]
Britflix: Threads
Nuclear War is one of the greatest threats to mankind. It can destroy cities and contaminate the world. In 1984 the BBC broadcast Threads, a film that showed the impact of nuclear war in and around Sheffield. There are increased tensions in the Middle East when the Soviet Union invades Iran after an American-backed coup in […]
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, […]
Alien: Romulus Review
The Alien franchise has had a long history of ups and downs across many forms of media. Alien: Romulus is the first movie in the franchise to be made after Disney’s takeover of 20th Century Fox. Rain (Cailee Spaeny) is a miner on the Weyland-Yutani colony of Jackson. When her contract is forcibly extended Rain […]
Borderlands Review
Audiences are in a golden age of video game adaptations with The Super Mario Bros Movie pleasing fans, whilst The Last of Us and Fallout were critical hits on TV. Borderlands shows that video game adaptations are still tricky beasts to tame. Pandora is a planet with a legendary vault that was created by an […]
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes Review
20th Century Studios have returned to the Planet of the Apes with a fourth entry in the reboot series and the tenth film overall in the franchise. This film shows how ape society has developed since the fall of man. Generations after the death of Caesar ape society flourished and formed many different cultures and […]
Rebel Moon – Part Two: The Scargiver Review
The saga of Kora and her band of warriors continues in the second part of Zack Snyder’s Rebel Moon series. Kora (Sofia Boutella) arrives back on Veldt with a group of diverse warriors, including a former general, Titus (Djimon Hounsou), Tarak (Staz Nair), an exiled nobleman, and Nemesis (Doona Bae), a cyborg swordsmith. Kora and the warriors […]
Dune: Part Two Review
Denis Villeneuve and his all-star cast return to the desert planet of Arrakis, with the second part of his adaptation of Dune. The Harkonnens have taken over Arrakis and House Atreides has fallen. However, Paul Atreides (Timothée Chalamet) and his mother, Lady Jessica (Rebecca Ferguson) survived the attack and joined the Fremen in the depths […]