In Review
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Film Review - Zootopia 2
If you love Shakira’s vocals, slow burn romances, justice, and films that encourage critical thinking, then Zootopia 2 is the film for you.
Film Review - Christmas Karma
Christmas Karma certainly isn’t boring, but not in the way you would want it to be.
British Film Fest 2025 Review - The Choral
If you’re into lighthearted WWI films, chorals, the beauty of Yorkshire, and Ralph Fiennes’s captivating performance then The Choral is the film for you.
Monster Fest 2025 Film Review - Deathgasm II: Goremageddon
Where the first film offsets its crude side with a palpably warm heart, Goremageddon plays like a reunion tour that’s fun for the diehards, but very much has the air of desperation that comes with one final hurrah.
Film Review - Bugonia
Bugonia refuses the safety of well-worn genre fare and instead thrives in its own damp moral fog.
Film Review - Splitsville
The joy of Splitsville is in watching its craziness unfold with no indication of where it’s going next, and I hope every person's first experience with it is as exciting as mine.
Italian Film Fest 2025 Review - Diamonds
Diamonds is about ambition, love and community. It celebrates the many hands that sew our lives together and work to create the art we pride ourselves on as a society.
Film Review - Sketch
Sketch is a charming, chaotic blend of fantasy, gateway horror, and emotional earnestness - heartfelt and imaginative, leaving one with the sense that your own little creative scribbles might be worth keeping.
MIFF 2025 Film Review - Pasa Faho
Pasa Faho, directed by Kalu Oji, is a much needed empathetic story of a father and son reconnecting across cultural divides.
Film Review - The Roses
They say all is fair in love and war. But what happens when love is war? It’s Benedict Cumberbatch versus Olivia Colman in dark comedy The Roses.
MIFF 2025 Film Review - Urchin
Urchin isn’t concerned with a film-like “happy” conclusion to its character’s problems; it lets you marinate in the idea that things might not actually get better - and that was refreshing.
Film Review - Sorry, Baby
Sorry, Baby is a story of someone trying to live their life as best they can.
MIFF 2025 Film Review - Pavements
Pavements is perhaps as interesting as its subject, which is to say they’re both easy-listening encapsulations of a mentality to artistry that I hope never goes away.
MIFF 2025 Film Review - The Toxic Avenger
it is a delight to see The Toxic Avenger uncut and in its full glory after two whole years sitting on the post-festival shelf, and if it also ends up getting more eyes on its ‘84 cousin, I'm all here for it.
MIFF 2025 Film Review - It Ends
Genre fans looking for a siege of monsters and otherworldly horrors may come away disappointed, but those looking for a more cerebral and borderline ethereal experience will likely find themselves embracing the film and its scrappy charm.
Film Review - Freakier Friday
For the most part […] Freakier Friday succeeds as a sequel and will delight fans both old and new.
Film Review - The Phoenician Scheme
Whilst certainly not as memorable as his previous works, The Phoenician Scheme still brings Anderson’s classic charm and style in spades.
Brunswick Underground Film Fest 2025 Review - The Code
The Code is an earnestly off-kilter, free-wheeling journey down the rabbit hole.
Brunswick Underground Film Fest 2025 Review - Frankenhooker
Ultimately, Frankenhooker is the kind of film that refuses to be ignored. It’s loud, garish, and unapologetically grotesque, yet like its oddball protagonist, it manages to be weirdly endearing, despite the rampant sex and violence […]