Movies

In the wordless opening scene of Kidnapping Stella, two men, one older, heavier, and hairier, the other younger, fairer and lighter, kidnap Stella (Jella Haase). Her...

Now, this is more like it: with Annabelle Comes Home, we can put The Nun and The Curse of La Llorona firmly behind us, and...

Like Blade Runner, Taiwanese Netflix film Cities of Last Things disconnects the characters from the audience. The protagonist does not attempt to allow the audience to be part...

I think we are all suckers for a good conspiracy story. Netflix has hundreds of streaming documentaries and even a show that offers Top 10...

I haven’t seen the latter, but I’ll assume that Fall Girls bears some resemblance to Rough Night, where a night out on the lash turns into a nightmare. Apparently,...

Shadow Wolves is a timely, diverse little action thriller, with a political viewpoint plugged straight into the cultural mains, with things to say about immigrant scaremongering...

Luc Besson put his stamp on the feminist action film nearly 30 years ago with the classic, La Femme Nikita, a French film that was...

There are moments in Joe Talbot’s visionary film that left me with the feeling of being positively giddy from a satisfying fulfillment and then heartrendingly...

Seeing as the word ‘festival’ derives from the Latin for feast, and Midsommar is about a 9-day festival during the Swedish summer solstice, the film...

There’s little happiness in Skin in the Game, a film that bases itself on real events. And there’s an inevitable reality that attaches itself to the writing...

Dolph Lundgren is one of the few actors whose acting roles are more realistic than their real lives. His new film The Tracker, by long-time low-budget...

Made in Malta is a film about the pitfalls of young love. By the time you hit your 30s, I think we can all assume we’ve...

When I saw the freezing exterior in 2019’s Cold Blood, I was prepped for Jean Reno‘s version of Polar, witnessing the older man stark naked near a frozen lake,...

The Dark Soul is a thriller from director Bey Logan (Snowblade) starring Kevin Brewerton (The Fifth Element), Meng Lo (Ip Man franchise), Bianca Stam (Chasing...

So the only people more worried about Spider-Man: Far From Home than the fans are the producers, as this movie has a lot of things...

This is our Spider-Man: Far From Home second opinion. Talk about the ultimate rebound date. The pressure to follow up the spectacle to end all...

Director Asif Kapadia completes his trilogy of documentaries focusing on flawed geniuses (after Senna and Amy) with Diego Maradona. The film charts the life of one Diego...

Let’s not mince words here. Berlin, I Love You is an anthology film that is the worst of its kind because it has no idea...