Movies

You can tell when a romantic comedy is going to crash and crash badly. It’s the moment when the couple meets, and two can things...

When Jonah settles in on top of his father’s lap, who lays back in his chair in front of his work desk, he asks him,...

There’s a common and very silly misconception about critics that posits their job is to be objective; to put aside their taste, their preferences, and...

Netflix is not messing around this year! The Christmas holidays are upon us, and the streaming giant wants us to know about it. After the...

This is how I like to spend my early mornings. Feet up, a nice warm brew, some miserable soggy porridge, and immersing myself into Netflix...

Intensive Care is directed by Jared Bentley, who worked on the special effects of Army of Darkness, with this being his feature film debut. It...

Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Nobody Knows is one of my all-time favourite films; on paper, it sounds like one of the world’s most depressing films (five children...

Elves delivers an unsurprisingly messy and cringe film telling the story of seven Christmas Elves that only have one thing on their mind: punishing those on...

Blood Brother is a film that is a little bit better than you’d think and a lot worse than it might have been. Any low...

When the first teaser trailer dropped for Lee Chang-Dong’s Burning, it was a shock to the senses. As trailers go, Burning ticked all the right boxes,...

My love for battle rap predates my current career as a mean-spirited producer of words, but the two things are inextricably linked. The underground world...

There are moments in Chloe Zhao’s The Rider that is so beautifully shot that I have a feeling the character Ricky from American Beauty would...

Monster is a nasty little low-budget indie horror film from the minds of Matt Shaw and Michael Bray, adapted from their novel of the same...

Prodigy is from writer and director Nathan Leon in his feature film debut, starring Cory Kays, Hailey Henry and newcomer Embry Johnson, and is a...

When Battle begins, it’s difficult not to see it as merely a Norwegian version of Save the Last Dance. Unfortunately for Battle, it struggles to...

Plagi Breslau (Plagues of Breslau) opens with a parcel being found in a market. It’s made up of a sewn-together hide of a high-quality bull,...

Netflix is well and truly in the spirit of Christmas. First off we got the silly The Christmas Chronicles, followed by the nonsensical A Christmas Prince: The...

At around the halfway point of Time Share, I was frustrated. I felt unsure of the story and wondered if there was an end goal to the...