Crime

Jennifer Lawrence already had a billion-dollar franchise, an Academy Award, and worldwide acclaim to her name before turning 30. Now fully transitioned into adult roles, Lynne Ramsey’s singular and challenging Die My Love might be the defining performance of Lawrence’s career.

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Crime

The mind of Guillermo del Toro finds creative connections in a powerhouse effort which includes wonders of cinematic imagination unlike any other. From the worlds of Pan’s Labyrinth, The Orphanage, and Pinocchio, he creates new meaning with Frankenstein, one where an emergence of lights evolves, but the political aspects regarding humanistic value fall in the middle. To provide context, this is not your common Halloween-type Frankenstein film. This one has a storyline with emphasis which gives the monster meaning.

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Comedy

Bugonia

Yorgos Lanthimos and Emma Stone, one of the most fruitful director-actor partnerships of recent times, are back for the third time in as many years (and the fifth time overall) with Bugonia and, wouldn’t you know, it’s another knockout. Though I was less keen on 2024’s Kinds of Kindness, both The Favourite and Poor Things […]

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Crime

Continuing on with the gala showings at the London Film Festival this year, the next film I decided to go for was The Mastermind. I have a passing familiarity with the work of Kelly Reichardt, I’ve seen a few of them, really liking Meek’s Cutoff and First Cow, but I’m not overtly familiar with her […]

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Crime

Greetings again from the darkness. What is true human nature? Is there even such a thing? Are we preprogrammed to do the right thing, or is it our nature to hold grudges, seek revenge, and take advantage of every situation? This superb film from Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi explores the topic, and it’s important to […]

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Movie Reviews

Unless you’ve been living in a coffin for the past hundred years, pretty much everyone alive knows the legend of Count Dracula, as told by Bram Stoker. For decades, vampire lore has been spun into televisions shows and countless movies, often remaking the exact same scenario over and over again. Enter: Abraham’s Boys: A Dracula […]

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Amazon Prime Video

Writer/Director: David O. Russell Co-writer: Eric Warren Singer Starring: Christian Bale, Amy Adams and Bradley Cooper ‘Powerful Period Piece’ In an awards season filled with movies about serious subjects, intense edge-of-the-seat thrillers and dark comedies, “American Hustle” stands out like a bright lightbulb. Yet neither because of the stylish time-period that it aims to capture […]

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Drama

Nuremberg was a historical drama film featuring the trial of the Nazis at Nuremberg. After the end of World War II, the US government, along with France, USSR and Great Britain, placed the remaining Nazi leaders on trial. This was based on the 2013 book The Nazi and the Psychiatrist by Jack El-Hai. The basis of the movie […]

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Horror

1h 37mins 8/10 First time watch in the cinema Bloody – Twisted – Hilarious A weekend getaway to a remote cabin with a group of friends, we all know in the world of horror/thrillers there’s only one way for this to go down… only this time the danger is not from the outside, the group are […]

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