Movie Features

Sometimes, we must do a deep dive when watching a movie. At Ready Steady Cut, we analyze and dissect movies, providing theories and unique perspectives. Here are our Movie Features.

We also do TV Features too.

The Tom Holland MCU Collection: How the Definitive Peter Parker’s Movies Stack Up After ‘Brand New Day’

July 31 2026, by Jonathon Wilson

For many fans who aren’t quite old enough to recall the Sam Raimi trilogy, or who understandably missed the Andrew Garfield duology after the second...

Christopher Nolan’s Resilience Since 2020 Has Paid Off: How ‘The Odyssey’ Proves Serious Cinema Is the Only Way

July 25 2026, by Daniel Hart

2020 and 2021 were challenging times for Christopher Nolan. He had directed the highly ambitious film Tenet following the successes of Interstellar and Dunkirk. The pandemic came at...

How ‘Elize: Shadows of a Woman’ Adapts A Divisive True Story

July 25 2026, by Jonathon Wilson

In 2012, Elize Matsunaga shot her husband, Marcos Kitano Matsunaga, in the head. She then dismembered him in their apartment and carried the pieces, stored...

‘Avengers: Doomsday’ Feels A Bit Desperate, And I’m Not Sure Nostalgia Can Fix the MCU

July 21 2026, by Jonathon Wilson

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....

Christopher Nolan and ‘The Odyssey’ Have Made Lame Culture Warriors Look Like Morons

July 20 2026, by Jonathon Wilson

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...

The Success Of ‘Desire’ Is Why Netflix Won’t Let the Erotic Thriller Die — Even Though It Should

July 20 2026, by Jonathon Wilson

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...

Is Uwe Boll Actually Bad at Making Movies? I Did The Maths

June 30 2026, by Daniel Hart

Taking away the subjectivity of film criticism, mathematically and by the law of averages, Uwe Boll is bad at making movies. However, he is clearly...

‘Citizen Vigilante’ and the Streisand Effect: A Loss For Art Is A Win For Cult Marketing

June 30 2026, by Jonathon Wilson

Citizen Vigilante shouldn’t be successful if you think about it. It’s a deeply terrible movie on a technical level and a wildly irresponsible one morally,...

Waiting It Out: A Timeline Of Louis C.K.’s Shrugging Return to the Mainstream in ‘Ridiculous’

June 30 2026, by Jonathon Wilson

While he wasn’t the first, and he certainly won’t be the last, Louis C.K.’s cancellation and subsequent career renaissance is one of the more instructive...

Armie Hammer’s Role In ‘Citizen Vigilante’ Is The Latest In A Long Line Of Post-Cancellation Comebacks

June 29 2026, by Jonathon Wilson

While the selling point of Citizen Vigilante, at least for its target demographic, is undoubtedly all the Muslim murdering, it’s undoubtedly a fascinating case study in...

Patriots Hate Immigrants So Much They’re Defending an Uwe Boll Movie

June 23 2026, by Jonathon Wilson

You need only take a brief look at the comments beneath my review of Citizen Vigilante, an execrable piece of fascistic propaganda from notoriously provocative...

‘Toy Story 6’ Absolutely Does Not Need to Happen

June 21 2026, by Daniel Hart

Toy Story 6 – let’s play with the idea of another sequel in this franchise for a moment. It’s basically confirmed, and with a decent...

How ‘Disclosure Day 2’ Can Fix the First Film’s Illogical Sci-Fi Writing

June 14 2026, by Daniel Hart

With the Steven Spielberg magic in full effect, Disclosure Day is being generally loved by audiences and critics alike. Despite my negative review and complaints...

The Source Material Of ‘Colors of Evil: Black’ Virtually Guarantees A Sequel

June 10 2026, by Jonathon Wilson

Colors of Evil: Black is a sequel to Colors of Evil: Red, both Polish thrillers adapted by Adrian Panek for Netflix from Malgorzata Oliwia Sobczak’s...

‘Michael’ Is Impossible to Review Sensibly, and the Sequel Will Be No Different

May 11 2026, by Daniel Hart

A few weeks have passed since the release of Michael, the biographical tribute to the late Michael Jackson – a man who could stand on...

The Apple TV Show You NEED To See If You Enjoyed Taron Egerton’s Villain In ‘Apex’

May 9 2026, by Jonathon Wilson

I have to say that I’m genuinely surprised by how many people are shocked to see a skinhead Taron Egerton terrorising Charlize Theron in Netflix’s Apex....

‘Return to Silent Hill’ Gets A Few Things Dead Wrong About ‘Silent Hill 2’

February 1 2026, by Jonathon Wilson

Unlike Christophe Gans’s first cinematic foray into the world of Silent Hill, which wasn’t based on any of the games in particular and instead pulled...

Netflix’s Ghoulish ‘Skyscraper Live’ Sets A Worrying Precedent For Live Programming

January 23 2026, by Jonathon Wilson

Let’s be frank here: Anyone who tunes into Skyscraper Live is doing so for one reason and one reason only, which is to see if...