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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Film Review: One Battle After Another
Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another might look like a straightforward search and rescue thriller – think Taken but
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Film Review: The Long Walk
This dystopian thriller, adapted by Stephen King’s novel of the same name, follows 50 contestants who compete for untold riches
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Film Review: Caught Stealing
Darren Aronofsky’s Caught Stealing marks a shift in tone and genre for the director of The Whale, Black Swan and
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Film Review: Death of a Unicorn (2025) – Savage, Silly, and Surprisingly Sharp
This comedy horror from A24 brings together an unexpected cast and teaches them that it’s one thing to piss off
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Film Review: Black Bag
Black Bag is a slow-burn, sleek spy thriller simmering with tension, betrayal, and unexpected truths. It delves into the murky
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Film Review: One of Them Days
This buddy comedy takes us through a whirlwind day in South LA following determined waitress Dreux and her flatmate/bestie aspiring
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Film Review: Mickey 17
In his first feature film since his Academy Award-winning Parasite, Bong Joon Ho, returns with Mickey 17. This genre-bending space
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Mubi Monday: The Taste of Things
Some films demand your full attention; The Taste of Things invites you to simply sit and savour. The first 30
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Film Review: I’m Still Here
At its heart, I’m Still Here is a story about waiting. Set in Rio during the 1970s, the film follows
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Iconic Movie Lines: Hidden Figures
Hidden Figures (2016) is an autobiographical drama about three trailblazing women of colour who worked as mathematician’s at NASA in
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Mubi Monday: Decision To Leave
Park Chan-wook’s Decision to Leave is a film that lingers. From the storytelling with its quiet intensity to the lead
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American Primeval (Netflix) Pilot Review
Set in 1857, American Primeval drops us into a brutal, lawless Utah Territory where pioneers, Native Americans, the U.S. Army,
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Mubi Monday: How To Have Sex
Written and directed by Molly Manning Walker, three British teenagers are in high spirits for their girls’ trips in this
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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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Missing You (Netflix) Pilot Review
Nothing says Happy New Year like a new Harlan Coben and Netflix team up. Missing You, is the latest adaptation
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Oscars 2025: Nominations Round Up
A collated list of reviews for all the films that have been Oscar nominated for Best Picture. It is a
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Power, Isolation, and the Price of Freedom in ‘The Brutalist’
This extraordinary film charts the life of a Hungarian born architect and holocaust survivor who starts a new life in
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Film Review: Babygirl
Nicole Kidman and Harris Dickinson wrestle for power and pleasure in Babygirl Halina Reijn’s exploration into expressing desires that some
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Film Review: A Complete Unknown
This Oscar nominated movie, charts the life of musician Bob Dylan. From his rise as a folk singer, instrumental in
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Film Review: Better Man
Music sensation Robbie Williams takes centre stage in this latest biopic. Well… sort of. The musical element from director Michael
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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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Film Review: Queer
Adapted from William S. Burroughs’ semi-autobiographical novella, Queer (2024) follows Lee (Daniel Craig). Living in post-war Mexico, Lee wrestling with
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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: Kraven The Hunter
Following a transformative near-death experience, a young Sergi Kravinoff runs away from the world of his ruthless crime family. Alone
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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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Film Review: Wicked
Based on the West End musical, Wicked is the untold story of the Wicked Witch of the West from The
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Film Review: Gladiator II
More than two decades after Ridley Scott’s Gladiator, the long-awaited sequel has arrived. Gladiator II follows Lucius Verus Aurelius (Paul Mescal),
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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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Film Review: Heretic
When two Mormon missionaries enter the house of a seemingly kindly theologian, their debates on religion soon twist into a
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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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Film Review: The Outrun
Fingscheidt, Liptrot and Ronan are a holy powerhouse in this effortlessly relatable film of growth and finding strength in isolation.
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Film Review: Sing Sing
Sing Sing, a maximum security prison, houses a company of prisoners turned amateur actors taking part in the Rehabilitation Through
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Film Review: Lee
Discovering the humanity behind the lens Speaking with a journalist about the personal and the historic pictures she’d taken over
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Film Review: Rebel Ridge
A return to the fold for isolated corruption of small town America and the lone hero fighting to release justice
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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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Film Review: The Crow (2024)
The Crow (2024) is as a gothic superhero film (love that for them) which is also a reboot of 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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Film Review: Blink Twice
Blink Twice is a psychological thriller starring Channing Tatum, Naomi Ackie, and Adria Arjona, marking the directorial debut of actress
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Film Review: The Clean Up Crew
When a crime scene cleanup crew discovers a briefcase full of money, they are unwittingly sent into a battle with
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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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Film Review: Trap (2024)
M. Night Shyamalan’s latest thriller, Trap, puts a notorious serial killer under pressure to escape a pop concert as the FBI slowly close in.
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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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Netflix Review: Persuasion (2022)
Me thinks the lady doth talk too much… I love an adaptation, partially because I am equally fond of books
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