Director: Parker Finn Cast: Naomi Scott, Kyle Gallner, Rosemarie DeWitt, Lukas Gage, Miles Gutierrez-Riley, Drew Barrymore This unsettling supernatural sequel bares its teeth at Gen Z celebrity culture There’s an old adage about it taking […]
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My Favourite Cake (Film Review)
Directors: Maryam Moqadam and Behtash Sanaeeha Cast: Lili Farhadpour and Esmail Mehrabi Love knows no age limit in this delightful late-life Iranian romance We’ve all heard the saying it’s better to have loved and lost […]
Sing, Sing (Film Review)
Director: Greg Kwedar Cast: Colman Domingo, Clarence “Divine Eye” Maclin, Sean San José Colman Domingo shines in this love letter to uncaged male vulnerability If prison cells are built to contain the most reprehensible parts […]
Fly Me To The Moon (Film Review)
Director: Greg Berlanti Cast: Scarlett Johansson, Channing Tatum, Woody Harrelson, Ray Romano, Jim Rash, Anna Garcia Scarlett Johansson and Channing Tatum provide star power to a wholesome Space Age romcom There are two kinds of […]
Name Me Lawand (Film Review)
Director: Edward Lovelace This affecting coming-of-age doc is as pure and literal a manifestation of ‘finding your voice’ as you’ll see The extent of most five-year-olds’ hardships begin and end with tying their shoelaces. But […]
Pretty Red Dress (Film Review)
Director: Dionne Edwards Cast: Natey Jones, Alexandra Burke, Temilola Olatunbosun Daring to be different, this London gem delivers a tender but hard-hitting exploration of Black masculinity This hugely promising debut from Londoner Dionne Edwards takes […]
Godland (Film Review)
Director: Hlynur Pálmason Cast: Elliott Crosset Hove, Ingvar Eggert Sigurðsson A priest succumbs to an ascetic unravelling in a beautifully bare Icelandic snow globe. There are few forces that are comparable to colonialism for its […]
Cairo Conspiracy (Film Review)
Director: Tarik Saleh Cast: Tawfeek Barhom, Mehdi Dehbi, Fares Fares, Mohammad Bakri A compelling, if slightly overcooked political thriller set in modern-day Egypt First terms at uni are pretty standard stuff: burning food in the […]
A Bunch of Amateurs (Film Review)
Director: Kim Hopkins Life mimics art in this lovely tale of hobbyist filmmakers fighting to withstand the test of time Films about filmmaking are often arthouse in style and niche in appeal, but Kim Hopkins’ […]
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