October 13, 2025 A House of Dynamite (2025) Eight years is a long time between films. Long enough to wonder if Kathryn Bigelow might have decided that fiction couldn’t compete with the absurdity… READ MORE
October 10, 2025 The Travellers (2025) Bruce Beresford’s latest film feels a bit like watching someone return to their childhood home only to realise they’ve forgotten why they left in the… READ MORE
October 4, 2025 The Smashing Machine (2025) A24 has waded into mixed martial arts territory with The Smashing Machine, and the result is less sports drama than psychological endurance test. Which is… READ MORE
October 2, 2025 A Big Bold Beautiful Journey (2025) Cinema often tries to remind us of what we already know. Sometimes it succeeds, sometimes it bludgeons us with its insistence. Kogonada’s A Big Bold… READ MORE
September 29, 2025 Kangaroo (2025) Kate Woods’ return to feature directing with Kangaroo is a genuinely pleasurable, if entirely familiar, slice of Australian life. It’s a film that knows exactly… READ MORE
September 29, 2025 One Battle After Another (2025) Paul Thomas Anderson has always been good at taking ideas that are already known and making them into something completely new. His most recent project… READ MORE
September 25, 2025 Fight or Flight (2024) You know what’s curious about James Madigan’s directorial debut? It shouldn’t work. Not really. Fight or Flight is built from spare parts of better films,… READ MORE
September 22, 2025 Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale (2025) Julian Fellowes has finally called time on the Crawley saga, and frankly, it shows. Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale feels like watching someone attempt to… READ MORE
September 20, 2025 Sketch (2024) There’s something oddly comforting about a film that knows exactly what it wants to be. Seth Worley’s Sketch doesn’t pretend to reinvent cinema, but it… READ MORE
September 19, 2025 The Roses (2025) Jay Roach’s reimagining of The War of the Roses offers a distinctly British spin on marital dysfunction, though one that occasionally stumbles beneath the weight… READ MORE
