Review – Sing Sing (2024 Edinburgh Film Festival)
The American prison system is well-known for being overcrowded, violent, and not designed for rehabilitation. Prisons could be described as...
Film Festivals
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Review – The Outrun (2024 Edinburgh Film Festival)
Addiction is a chronic condition that I believe many people will experience. However, not all addictions are equal. For example,...
Fantasia 2024 Film Review – PÁRVULOS (2024)
Parvulos is a superior survival horror invigorates the pandemic apocalypse blueprint with heart-wrenching family drama, jet-black hilarity, and vicious coming-of-age...
Fantasia 2024 Film Review – The Dead Thing (2024)
Sexual intensity and emotional co-dependency in a swipe-fixated society are distorted through a supernatural lens in this enthusiastic app-based horror...
Fantasia 2024 Film Review – Steppenwolf (2024)
Steppenwolf is an unrelentingly violent neo-Western from Kazakhstan channels the animalistic element of Hesse's infamous counterculture novel to mirror the...
Tribeca 2024 – Film Review – Restless (2024)
A cake-baking empty nester locks horns with an anti-social party beast in this engrossing kitchen sink horror drama with layers...
Tribeca 2024 – Film Review – Beacon (2024)
Seafaring superstition feeds delusory paranoia in this horror-tinged psychothriller that both fascinates and frustrates. Intrepid sailor Emily is following the...
Film Review – I Saw the TV Glow (2024)
With an overwhelming number of positive reviews for the US public, my expectations for I Saw The TV Glow were...
Film Review – Skywalkers: A Love Story (2024)
Before watching Skywalkers: A Love Story I had very little interest in the business of heights or building skyscrapers. I...
Sundance London 2024 Review – Rob Peace (2024)
There’s a shot at the start of Rob Peace that you never forget – and that the film’s director, Chiwetel...
Sundance London 2024 Review – My Old Ass (2024)
It’s a life lesson and one that can take years to learn. Just about every teenager will have nursed a...
Sundance London 2024 Review – Kneecap (2024)
Not heard of Rich Peppiatt? This year’s Sundance London opener, Kneecap, will change that. As his Belfast-set docudrama explodes off...
The Overlook Film Festival – Film Review – Arcadian – (2024)
Immersive realism and stupendous creature design give this apocalyptic family drama an added bite. Nicolas Cage plays Paul, a pragmatic...
2024 BFI Flare Review – Unicorns (2023)
“Everybody just wants what they can’t have.” What – or, rather, who - Asian drag queen Aysha wants is sat...