Movies

Elize: Shadows of a Woman has a problem that it never quite manages to overcome – we’ve seen it all before. By this, I don’t...

As ever, Netflix is leading the charge on salacious true-crime stories that snatch the interest of genre fans and ignite that innate anger about injustice....

Netflix continues to be the biggest platform for true crime documentaries, as they are popping them out left, right, and centre – in 2026, from...

On paper, there’s nothing especially funny about a husband and wife plotting to kill one another. Similarly, there’s nothing all that amusing about heads and...

There are some rides you’ve been on too many times, and Passenger is one of them. A go-nowhere horror movie clearly intended to pad out...

Thank goodness for Karl Urban, honestly. As someone satisfied with being a consistently great bit player in massive IP, he has one of the most...

AI is the villain of our times, the contemporary equivalent of zombies and Nazis when it comes to low-effort, morally uncomplicated bad guys who can...

When I watched the official trailer for Avengers: Doomsday, I felt something. A familiar pang of excitement, maybe, probably brought on by the main theme....

At the time of writing, after its gargantuan opening weekend, Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey has walked away with a gigantic box office haul. The epic...

Rather improbably, Netflix’s Mexican erotic thriller Desire (Deseo) is the number one streaming movie in the world. This is despite the fact that, like basically...

Backrooms is one of those great ideas for a movie that doesn’t work as a fully-fledged feature. It’s an ideal horror concept, granted, which is...

There’s a do-it-yourself quality to Curry Barker’s horror hit Obsession that feels to me like it might represent the short-term future of the genre (especially...

The Odyssey is quite the journey. Christopher Nolan’s adaptation of Homer’s epic poem is an extraordinary movie, a bombastic, visually remarkable, thematically rich modernisation of...

Christopher Nolan does things big. And while it’s much too early to tell whether The Odyssey is the best movie of his already legendary catalogue,...

Now is either the best or the worst time for a sincere and deeply empathetic drama about refugees, immigration, and the callous, self-serving disregard shown...

In many ways, the laughably silly ending of Netflix’s Desire is a very unconventional form of marriage counselling. Just cheat on your spouse with a...

I was going to open this review by wondering aloud why Netflix keeps commissioning movies like Desire, another in an increasingly long list of tawdry...

Netflix’s French-language sort-of thriller Nothing to Lose makes light of a serious subject by having its ending reach levels of distracting ridiculousness. While a strident...