Finally Watched: Days of Thunder (1990) – Men, Machines, and Feelings
Tom Cruise and the booked and busy Anne Hathaway recently announced there would be a sequel to the 1990 sports
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25th Anniversary: The Fast and the Furious
Bring back movies about subcultures. Audiences yearn for them. The Fast and the Furious might be 25 years old, but
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The Odyssey (2026) Review: Christopher Nolan Gives the Hero’s Journey a Moral Underline
It’s not just the film bros and the film girlies who hail Christopher Nolan as a prolific director. With films
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Wasteman (2025) Review: A Sharp and Tense Peek At Life Behind Bars
Cal McMau’s directorial debut reframes the conventional British prison drama through an inmate, weeks from release, and his volatile new
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Twinless (2025) Review: A darkly comic, and painfully millennial cry for connection.
Roman and Dennis form a connection through the shared loss of a twin. This witty dark comedy speaks to companionship
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Sentimental Value (2025) Review: A Powerful Portrayal of Family Ties and Artistic Angst
Sisters Nora and Agnes (Renate Reinsve and Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas) are drawn back into the orbit of their estranged father,
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Rental Family (2025) Review: Found Family At Its Finest
Brendan Fraser is a struggling American actor living in Japan taking on paid roles to ‘star’ in other people’s lives.
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Hamnet (2025) Review: Jessie Buckley Takes the Reins and Holds Nothing Back
Based on Maggie O’Farrell’s prize-winning novel of the same name, Hamnet centres on Agnes Shakespeare, a woman who has remained
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Film Review: The Chronology of Water
Kristen Stewart’s directorial debut drowns in symbolism but swims with emotion. Check your trigger warnings before you embark on the
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Film Review: Pillion
pillion (noun): a seat for a passenger behind a motorcyclist. Harry Lighton’s striking debut Pillion pushes our expectations of the British
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Film Review: Christy (2025)
A structurally muddled biopic that manages an emotional punch thanks to its knockout supporting performances. If you’re looking for a
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Film Review: A Private Life (2025)
A humorous, self-aware portrait of life’s fragility. A Private Life – or Vie Privée as it was intended – follows
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Film Review: Die My Love (2025)
Jennifer Lawrence gives us a psychological spiral with no centre. Directed by Lynne Ramsey and based on the eponymous novel,
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Film Review: Frankenstein (2025)
Guillermo del Toro Successfully Shapes a Monster, But Fails To Move Man. Based on Mary Shelley’s gothic tale of the
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Film Review: Ballad of a Small Player
Colin Farrell gives it his all in Edward Berger’s neon-soaked gamble that never quite pays off. When the debts start
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Film Review: Bugonia (2025)
Yorgos Lanthimos Delivers a Darkly Comic Fairytale That Hits Uncomfortably Close to Home Yorgos Lanthimos and his band of merry
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Film Review: Hedda
Nia DaCosta and Tessa Thompson create a fearless and glamorous drama. If seeing Tessa Thompson play a manipulative, bordering on
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Film Review: Blue Moon
Richard Linklater and his muse Ethan Hawke continue to be a formidable duo! Blue Moon is a reflective and dialogue-driven
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Film Review: The Mastermind
A slow and steady heist that keeps your pulse in time with its jazzy 4/4 beat. Set in the 1970s,
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Film Review: Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere
A subdued Springsteen story that trades fireworks for feeling Jeremy Allen White makes for a controlled and quietly compelling Springsteen.
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Film Review: After The Hunt
The generational war comes to a head in Luca Guadagnino’s film centred on the fallout of a student allegation against
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Film Review: The Thing With Feathers
Benedict Cumberbatch delivers a convincing performance in The Thing With Feathers (2025), a surreal exploration of grief, fatherhood, and the strange comfort of a talking crow.
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Film Review: My Father’s Shadow
A sensitive exploration of fatherhood and legacy. Two brothers take a trip from the village to Lagos with their absentee
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BFI London Film Festival 2025 Round Up
A rapid fire review of all thirty-two films I watched (in chronological order because I am a creature of routine)
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Finally Watched: Y Tu Mamá También
Alfonso Cuarón’s Y Tu Mamá También takes viewers on a journey through an unseen Mexican landscape, following two teenage friends
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Film Review: We Live In Time
Focusing on a brief window in a couple’s relationship, We Live In Time is a romantic drama that combines the
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Up Close and Personal With RaMell Ross’ Unrelenting Adaptation, ‘Nickel Boys’.
Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead, RaMell Ross directs Ethan Herisse and Brandon Wilson
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Film Review: Nightbitch
Adapted from Rachel Yoder’s acclaimed novel of the same name, Nightbitch explores the raw, unfiltered journey of a woman navigating
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A Heavenly Slice of Politics When Cardinals Collide in ‘Conclave’.
When the Pope dies, the Vatican is thrust into an enduring and clandestine ritual: the conclave. Cardinals from around the
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Steve McQueen’s ‘Historical Epic’ Blitz, Depicts A Poignant Yet Disjointed Portrait of Wartime London.
Taking place during one of Britain’s most landmark historical events; the Blitz, Steve McQueen takes us on an exploration of
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Anora Review: Crushing the Cinderella Fantasy with Class, Chaos and Reality
*A somewhat spoiler ridden review* Sean Baker’s new film, Anora stars a transcendent Micky Madison in the titular role of
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Breaking Generational Repression in A Nice Indian Boy
Hands down, ticking the boxes of ‘romantic’ and ‘comedy,’ Roshan Sethi’s film goes one step further in exploring the difficulties
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It’s All Pizazz and No Pop in Audiard’s Disappointing Emilia Pérez
Emilia Pérez, directed by Jacques Audiard is a slightly psychedelic movie trip that fuses crime, comedy and musical genres. It
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A Real Pain: The Weight of Grief and The Burden of Family Dynamics
Jesse Eisenberg and Kieran Culkin are a grief-filled comedic duo, and it’s hard to know if you want to laugh,
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BFI London Film Festival 2024 Round Up
A rapid fire review of everything I watched (in order) during my first attendance at the London Film Festival. Subscribe
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Unmasking Spider-Man: How The Fandom Destroyed An Underrated Gem
Marc Webb’s sequel might not have been amazing, but it’s pretty incredible. The Amazing Spider-Man 2 has a lower Letterboxd
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Unmasking Spider-Man: The Reboot Blueprint
How The Amazing Spider-Man keeps the return to the franchise both familiar and fresh. If you missed out on the
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Unmasking Spider-Man: How Too Many Plots Spoil The Broth
Peter Parker juggles too many identities in the final chapter of the original Spider-Man Trilogy You might want to catch
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Unmasking Spider-Man: Identity and the War Within
How Peter Parker’s Identity Crisis Sets the Stage for the Perfect Sequel If you haven’t done so, check out the first
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Unmasking Spider-Man: Are Powers and Responsibility the True Measures of Heroism?
They say that a hero can save us, so what makes Tobey Maguire’s Peter Parker our guy? You know the
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Film Review: Tenet
Don’t worry about trying to understand why – just how. It doesn’t have to make sense because it’s already happened
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Finally Watched: The Hateful Eight (2015)
Because Once Upon a Time in Hollywood comes out this month. I mean that’s not the only reason I finally
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Finally Watched: Snatch (2000)
Guy Ritchie. Okay, I guess I should say more than that – I’d always intended to watch this movie but
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Finally Watched: Save The Last Dance (2001)
I genuinely thought that I had watched this movie before. In fact, I have it on DVD and it’s not
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Finally Watched: Gone Baby Gone (2007)
I saw someone on Film Twitter mention Gone Baby Gone as one of Ben Affleck’s best movies. I did some
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Finally Watched: Angus, Thongs & Perfect Snogging
When I saw that this movie was available on Netflix and commented that I had never seen in; shit hit
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Finally Watched: The Blind Side
This months finally watched was chosen simply because The Blind Side was recently released on Netflix. I realised I’d never
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Finally Watched: Trading Places
I have been meaning to watch this movie forever – I even watched the first ten minutes this time last
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Finally Watched: Million Dollar Baby (2004)
I had vague recollections of the hype surrounding the movie when it originally came out, and so I pretty much
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Finally Watched: Boyz n the Hood (1991)
Often found on a list of the Best Black Movies, and always missed on the list of Best Coming of
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Finally Watched: Gone Girl (2014)
The thriller that took the world by storm in 2014. Based on the novel of the same name, it went
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