Category: Films
Ayo Edebiri ‘got insane death threats’ after Elon Musk shared fake report about Pirates of the Caribbean casting
Ayo Edebiri, the actor best known for her Emmy-award winning work on The Bear, has said she received “insane death threats” after Elon Musk shared [more…]
O’Dessa review – clumsy sci-fi musical is a rocky road to nowhere
Sadie Sink needs to be freed from whatever nostalgia curse has condemned her to a career full of pop synth soundtracks. If Sink seemed the [more…]
Sister Midnight review – Mumbai-set comic horror finds the terror in arranged marriage
British-Indian film-maker Karan Kandhari makes a stylish and offbeat feature debut with a black-comic horror set in Mumbai, elegantly shot by Sverre Sørdal and designed [more…]
The Rule of Jenny Pen review – John Lithgow pulls the strings in care home horror
Film-maker James Ashcroft has created a scary and intimately upsetting psychological horror based on a story by New Zealand author Owen Marshall set in a [more…]
A Touch of Love review – Margaret Drabble’s single-mother drama is a vivid 60s time capsule
Waris Hussein’s earnest 1969 movie, adapted by Margaret Drabble from her own novel The Millstone, is a London-set drama about a young woman who has [more…]
The Rivals of Amziah King review – Matthew McConaughey returns with unwieldy misstep
In the past six years, the Academy award-winning actor Matthew McConaughey, the reigning prince of Austin, Texas, has kept busy. He raised his three kids [more…]
Novocaine review – throwaway one-joke action comedy brings the pain
We’re in the thick of an ongoing movie star crisis and it’s one that no amount of “Glen Powell grinning on a red carpet” images [more…]
Oh My Goodness! review – bike-racing nuns go for the prize in freewheeling clerical comedy
The nuns in this silly good-natured French comedy say far worse things than the film’s title. And that’s the trouble with the movie – it [more…]
All Happy Families review – childhood home is renovation project in likable indie drama
“All happy families are alike,” the famous first line of Anna Karenina tells us. “But each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” The [more…]
Satu – Year of the Rabbit review – scene-stealing runaways on picturesque road trip across Laos
This debut feature from Welsh director Joshua Trigg exudes an unassuming virtuousness from every pore, thanks in no small part to a dignified performance from [more…]
