September 1, 2025 Irena’s Vow (2023) There’s something subversive about watching someone drug a Nazi’s tea. Not the act itself—that part seems perfectly reasonable—but the way Sophie Nélisse goes about it… READ MORE
August 25, 2025 The Naked Gun (2025) Watching The Naked Gun (2025) feels a bit like bumping into an old school friend at the shops. There’s that initial flash of recognition, some… READ MORE
August 24, 2025 Kangaroo Island (2024) Some films creep up on you in ways you don’t see coming. Kangaroo Island is one of those—it starts somewhere familiar and ends up in… READ MORE
August 22, 2025 Nobody 2 (2025) Bob Odenkirk with a sword. It’s either the most ridiculous image you’ll see this year or oddly fitting, depending on how you feel about middle-aged… READ MORE
August 17, 2025 The Life of Chuck (2024) Stephen King writing about life-affirming themes? Mike Flanagan swapping horror for a meditation on memory, time and mortality? The Life of Chuck sounds, on the… READ MORE
August 16, 2025 Mr Burton (2025) Watch a few biographical films in succession and the structure soon becomes almost comic in its predictability. Childhood adversity. Discovery of talent. Final act: the… READ MORE
August 11, 2025 Freakier Friday (2025) Here we go again—fortune cookies upending quiet suburban lives, because apparently Disney thinks we need a fresh reminder every couple of decades that living in… READ MORE
August 11, 2025 Weapons (2025) Picture this: seventeen kids wandering into the night at exactly 2:17 AM, arms stretched out like they’re trying to take flight. It’s a haunting image,… READ MORE
August 7, 2025 The Friend (2024) There’s something almost inevitable about Hollywood’s approach to grief. Take a complex human experience, sand down the rough edges, and package it into something digestible… READ MORE
August 3, 2025 Together (2025) What starts out feeling familiar—just another story about a couple hoping a change of scenery might fix their relationship—soon becomes something much stranger. And far… READ MORE
