Ready or Not 2: Here I Come review – here comes…
When you have a hit film these days, inevitably the question always arises about a sequel. There’s very little studios love more
Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice – first-look review
Aside from the latest version of The Naked Gun, action comedies have suffered a recent dry spell. Many of the latest movies
Scarlet review – a disappointing offering from an…
Across his two-decade feature career, Mamoru Hosada has stuck to a handful of thematic preoccupations. Family in all its complexity; forgiveness
Reminders of Him review – Colleen Hoover strikes…
No film critic was ever going to have high hopes for Reminders of Him, the latest adaptation in the Colleen Hoover
Sound Of Falling review – a complex puzzle box…
The old adage ‘History doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme’ lies at the heart of Mascha Schilinski’s Sound of Falling,
If you don’t play, you can’t win: Desert Hearts…
Forty years on, the film is often branded ‘the lesbian Brokeback Mountain’. Though it’s a rather lazy point of comparison (not
How the Scream franchise’s mask slipped
When Scream was relaunched/remade/rebooted/requel-ed/whatever in 2022, under the direction of Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett, something was missing. It treated the
Diving into the SXSW film line-up
In a landscape where film festivals have had to jostle violently for the attention of sales agents and studios, it helps
Daniel Blumberg: ‘The ingredients were there to…
Daniel Blumberg is an omnivorous artist, bringing intense conviction and curiosity to song form, improvised live performance, visual artwork and
The Moment review – it’s not that easy being green
On June 7 2024 Charli XCX unleashed a monster. Green, mean and only 41:23 minutes long, ‘brat’ wasn’t just an album – it