In Review
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MIFF 2025 Film Review - We Bury the Dead
Zak Hilditch’s We Bury the Dead is a moody, slow-burning horror drama that leans into atmosphere and emotional weight over cheap thrills - and for the most part, it works.
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 - The Shrouds
The Shrouds presents potential by reeling in its audience at the beginning, but then loses its grip on them far too soon.
Film Review - 28 Years Later
28 Years Later clearly wants to put brains back on the menu, even if it stumbles along the way.
Film Review - Dangerous Animals
Despite its pitfalls, Dangerous Animals still manages to thoroughly entertain for its full duration […]
Film Review - From the World of John Wick: Ballerina
As with any spin-off, it’s difficult not to compare what you are watching to the original; needless to say, Ballerina embraces this challenge by continuing to change the form of what we know the world to be, innovating its tropes and style.
Brunswick Underground Film Fest 2025 Review - Bum
Low on budget but high on ambition, BUM represents the exact type of cinema I wish I was exposed to more in high school, the kind of art that makes you realise just how few roadblocks might actually be between your concepts and the actual execution of your first feature film.
Film Review - Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning
The phrase gets thrown around a lot these days, but Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning really does demand to be seen on the biggest screen possible.
Film Review - The Surfer
The Surfer’s dysphoric madness is purposeful, its structure disorienting, and its central performance unapologetically feral. But for those willing to paddle out into deeper, more turbulent waters, it truly stands as a mesmerising devolution into psychedelic bedlam.
Film Review - Clown in a Cornfield
Clornfield knows exactly what it is and isn't self conscious about it, playing out like an R-rated episode of Scooby Doo, complete with some lean and mean kills […]
Film Review - Novocaine No Pain
The equal helping of fights and jokes should be guaranteed to make action aficionados laugh and comedy connoisseurs flinch.
Film Review - Drop
At a brisk 95 minutes, Drop is the kind of taut, grown-up genre film that feels increasingly rare.
Film Review - The Rule of Jenny Pen
James Ashcroft’s The Rule of Jenny Pen is a slow-burn psychological horror that trades in gore for something far more insidious - helplessness.
Film Review - Black Bag
Steven Soderbergh continues his prolific ‘post-retirement’ run with Black Bag, a tightly-wound spy thriller that is as cleverly composed as it is devilishly paranoid.
Film Review - The Seed of the Sacred Fig
Rasoulof brings the audience directly into Tehran - this film will most likely be the closest thing we’ll ever have to see into the lives of those who have been oppressed in Iran.
Film Review - Inside
Inside is a well-directed debut feature that is unforgiving, and filled with stand out moments from the whole cast.
Europa Europa Film Fest 2025 - Shoot the Piano Player
Visually, this film feels like a masterclass of instinctive storytelling.
Film Review - Companion
Dating and relationships, especially in the modern world, can be a real horror.
Film Review - Wolf Man
As far as January horror movies go, you could do worse, but howling about Wolf Man, you will not be.