January 16, 2026 Hamnet (2025) Chloé Zhao’s Hamnet operates within what you might call an uncomfortable paradox. It takes literature’s most celebrated meditation on death and mortality, traces it back… READ MORE
January 5, 2026 The Choral (2025) Something feels appropriate, almost inevitable, about a film centred on Edward Elgar’s The Dream of Gerontius that never quite lifts off into transcendence itself. Nicholas… READ MORE
January 3, 2026 Song Sung Blue (2025) Craig Brewer’s Song Sung Blue faces a challenge familiar to anyone who’s attempted karaoke: how do you honour the original without becoming a pale imitation?… READ MORE
January 2, 2026 Rental Family (2025) Brendan Fraser’s remarkable second act continues with Rental Family, a Tokyo-set dramedy that asks what happens when you hire someone to love you. Or at… READ MORE
January 2, 2026 The Best Films of 2025: What Actually Worked 2025 wasn’t short on films. What it lacked was the kind of cinema that made you want to ring someone afterwards. Or text them at… READ MORE
December 31, 2025 My Brother’s Band (2024) Also known as: The Marching BandOriginal title: En fanfare Emmanuel Courcol’s third feature starts with what sounds like the setup for something mawkish: two brothers,… READ MORE
December 30, 2025 Sentimental Value (2025) Joachim Trier’s sixth film asks a question that sounds simple until you think about it properly: can art repair what life has broken? The Norwegian… READ MORE
December 29, 2025 The Housemaid (2025) Paul Feig’s The Housemaid is something you don’t see much anymore: a domestic thriller that actually remembers what genre means. Not just the trappings, but… READ MORE
December 22, 2025 Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025) James Cameron has dragged us back to Pandora for round three, and what we’ve got is a film that seems perpetually at war with itself…. READ MORE
December 19, 2025 The History of Sound (2025) A film that puts its cards on the table from the title onwards ought to be admired for transparency, if nothing else. The History of… READ MORE
