Movies

This review of Netflix film Alien Xmas contains no spoilers. The family animation was released on the streaming service on November 20, 2020 I know...

This review of Hulu and Netflix film Run contains no spoilers. The thriller was released on Hulu on November 20, 2020. It was later released...

Sometimes, I find my appreciation for a film increases while I’m writing about it, and I adjust the star rating accordingly. Incision was, I’m sorry...

There has been so much hype surrounding Kornél Mundruczó’s Pieces of a Woman since its premiere last September at the 77th Venice International Film Festival....

After yesterday’s animated delights, I simply couldn’t resist this forty-minute programme of short films with a common theme of happy endings. As Denise Blackman shares...

Conscious that I’ve not been able to cover much from this festival, I thought I should pick at least one of the four programmes of...

I’ll keep this one short: Fox Hunt Drive, Drew Walkup’s directorial debut, is excellent. The story surprised me, the characters surprised me and the ending...

“I am Greta” isn’t quite the heroic announcement of solidarity that “I am Spartacus” was, but then again Greta Thunberg is a very different kind...

This review of Netflix Italian film The Life Ahead contains no spoilers. The drama was released on the platform on November 13, 2020. In the...

This review of Netflix film Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey contains no spoilers. The family Christmas film was released on November 13, 2020. With cinemas...

Song Lang stunned me. I confess I’d not got around to watching it for some time, but then its inclusion in the SHOUT programme (neatly...

I like a good monster movie. Great, I thought, when I was offered the chance to review The Retreat: I like a bit of man-versus-nature,...

At first glance, a film starring Adam Brody as a down on his luck former child detective seemed easily dismissible. What could have been a...

It’s a funny old world, hence how What We Wanted, this year’s Austrian Oscar contribution, can swerve a theatrical release and end up with very...

What struck me first about Lucky Grandma is that it is a rare film: American, yet nearly all the dialogue is in Mandarin. The titular...

Jungleland is, on some level, a boxing movie, but it has almost none of the tropes you’d expect. There is no inspirational training montage. There’s...

What you get out of Alex Chung’s Contracts is going to depend on what you go into it looking for. Those in the market for...

There is nothing wrong with growing up in the rural heartland. I’ll take a little bit of Brooks and Dunn over Catullus and Propertius any...