The App Review: Signalling The Empty Feeling Of Finding Your Purpose Feeling Loved
Netflix film The App, which only runs for a mere 76-minutes, is a thematic story about the perils of the modern
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Film Reviews
Como Caído Del Cielo Review: A Man Learns Not To Be A Womaniser A Ticket Into Heaven
Arriving on Netflix on Christmas Eve is Mexican film Como Caído Del Cielo. The main plot of this 2-hour feature
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Togo Review: A Family Adventure Film Throwback That Swells With Heart & Genuine Suspense Baltogo
You have to give Disney credit for sticking to their business model. This giant conglomerate goes back to the well
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The Aeronauts Review: A Grand Adventure Film That’s Full of Hot Air Based On A Kind-Of True Story
Amazon may deserve more credit than many will give them for casting Felicity Jones as an action heroine even if
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A Hidden Life Review: Malick’s Ethereal Stylings Undercut His Return to Narrative
After spending the entirety of the 2010s thus far perfecting what I suppose can now be called his mid-to-late career
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Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker Second Opinion: Ending the Saga With A Shrug No one's ever really gone... because we gotta keep the fans happy.
I suppose we were always going to end up here. After the vitriolic backlash toward Rian Johnson’s The Last Jedi
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After the Raid Review: A Small Window Into The Emotional Fallout After An Immigration Raid Love Thy Neighbour
With the release of After the Raid it’s evident that Netflix, as a streaming platform and as an organisation, have
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Star Wars: The Rise of the Skywalker Review: In A Galaxy Far, Far Away… Is the Same Recycled Material A Throuple of Problems
I’m not sure if it’s my fond memories of my childhood re-watching the original Star Wars series that have me
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Portrait Of A Lady On Fire Review: Gorgeous, Focused Storytelling In One Of 2019’s Best Films
In a decade dominated by superheroes and complicated interwoven universes, the simple love story took a backseat. Explosions filled the
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Bombshell Review: A Knockout Performance From Charlize Theron Sly Foxes
Sometimes you just have to swallow your pride and put away your preconceived notions of what a movie should be.
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Dark Waters Review: The best of its kind since Erin Brockovich & A Civil Action Murky
Maybe I’m just naïve when it comes to a movie about an admirable man or woman who fights injustice by
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Waves Second Opinion: A Combustible Masterwork An Undertow of Emotions
Wow. I mean, wow. It’s really the only way to describe Trey Edward Shults’s (It Comes At Night) latest film,
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Hell on the Border Review: The True Story of a Pioneering Black Lawman Super Bass
Proving that there are still some interesting stories to tell about the Wild West, writer/director Wes Miller’s Hell on the
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Mob Town Review: An Easy Offer To Refuse Catering
The only upside of Danny A. Abeckaser’s sophomore directorial effort Mob Town is that the one element it doesn’t crib from
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The Great War Review: A WWI Drama With A Message Somehow Cheaper Than Its Budget Behind Enemy Lines
Steven Luke’s well-intentioned new World War I drama The Great War has an always-obvious pocket-money budget, which can excuse a lot of
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Little Women Review: A Captivating Adaptation Big Dreams
I’m convinced the great Greta Gerwig was Louisa May Alcott in another life. The supremely gifted writer/director of Lady Bird and
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6 Underground Review: The Most Michael Bay Movie Ever Made Carte Blanche
The thing I like and admire about Michael Bay is that he doesn’t care what you think. And neither, apparently,
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Uncut Gems Review: Sandler’s Big Gamble Pays Off The Underdog
The Safdie brothers are the new Polish brothers when it comes to their unique, one-of-a-kind visions. The only difference may
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Jumanji: The Next Level Review: A Fun Popcorn Sequel
Jumanji: The Next Level is directed by Jake Kasdan (Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle) and stars Dwayne Johnson (Hobbs &
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The Two Popes Review: Valediction & Remembrance Grumpy Old Men
There might be more exciting ways to spend two hours and those hard-earned shingles than watching two grumpy old men
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