Flow Review (2024 Toronto Film Festival)
Nature is a thing of sheer wonder and beauty. Observing how animals live in our world, we often have no...
Film Festivals
Alongside our in-depth reviews from some of the world’s biggest film festivals, you’ll also find the latest film news, exclusive features, trailers, interviews, and everything in between. We cover festivals from across the globe, including the Glasgow Film Festival, Edinburgh International Film Festival, Sundance Film Festival, BFI London Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), Fantasia International Film Festival, and FrightFest, bringing you the latest from the world of cinema all year round.
Harbin Review
Political thrillers are, by nature, tales of espionage and edge-of-your-seat tension. I feel you cannot have one without the other....
TIFF 2024 Review – I The Executioner (ë² í…Œëž‘ 2024)
If you know me, you know that South Korean action thrillers are my bread and butter. It's a genre of...
Pigeon Shrine FrightFest Film Review – Charlotte (2024)
Dramas don't come darker than this—the astonishing central performance and a stunning final third will fry your mind. Abused and...
Pigeon Shrine FrightFest Film Review – AZRAEL (2024)
This gruelling survival horror replaces dialogue with torrents of gore to deliver a tour de force of genre greatness. Azrael...
Pigeon Shrine FrightFest Film Review – Members Club (2024)
Dick ripping balls to the wall horror-comedy packed with filthy laughs and gruesome gore. Veteran male stripping troupe Wet Dreams...
Pigeon Shrine FrightFest Film Review – Strange Darling (2024)
A reimagining of the "final girl" trope that manipulates and mauls through an aggressive symphony of 35mm hyper-realism. A ruthless...
Pigeon Shrine FrightFest Film Review – Protein (2024)
Classy cannibal crime picture precision-crafted with heart, humour, and humanism. Traumatised by war, the enigmatic Sion arrives in South Wales...
Pigeon Shrine FrightFest Film Review – Traumatika (2024)
Taboo-shredding possession film that weaponises deep psychological trauma to the point of fetishism. Mikey's 'Mommy' is on the turn. Her...
Review – An Taibhse (The Ghost)
The highly atmospheric Irish-language ghost movie An Taibhse entombs a disturbing secret under a stratum of jump scares and dares...
Review – Lollipop (2024 Edinburgh Film Festival)
Lollipop opens with a conversation: the audience hears Molly (Posy Sterling) talking on the phone to her daughter Ava (Tegan-Mia...
Review – Armand (2024 Edinburgh Film Festival)
Sexual assault is an issue that society and institutions often fail to address seriously, with inadequate procedures in place to...
Review – Blue Sun Palace (2024 Edinburgh Film Festival)
Blue Sun Palace opens with a couple having dinner. Didi (Haipeng Xu) is eating spicy chicken with her partner Cheung...
Review – Sunlight (2024 Edinburgh Film Festival)
Nina Conti is a well-respected comedian. The British ventriloquist has toured the comedy circuits with various puppets and masks, with...