Category: Films
Pepe review – inside the beautiful mind of Pablo Escobar’s hippo
Nelson Carlo de Los Santos Arias is the Dominican film-maker whose 2017 feature debut Cocote I found challenging and intriguing. Now he has created a [more…]
Standing on the Shoulders of Kitties: The Bubbles and the Shitrockers Story review – goofs on tour
Trailer Park Boys is a long-running, multiplatform Canadian sitcom that non-Canadians with a taste for bawdy comedy may know if they’ve let Netflix’s algorithm churn [more…]
The Damned review – atmospheric period chiller twists the knife on Iceland fishers
Every film ought to have a signature image, and slow-burn supernatural chiller The Damned has a doozy: a body washed ashore shows unexpected signs of [more…]
Get Away review – Nick Frost ramps up the ridiculousness in comedy horror
The trouble with Nick Frost’s knowingly cartoonish and silly comedy paying homage to folk horrors such as The Wicker Man and Midsommar is that Frost [more…]
Street Trash review – grisly remake of cult horror sends exploding corpses to South Africa
This is less a remake than an echo of the 1987 American cult horror flick of the same title. As in the previous film, it [more…]
Zendaya and Tom Holland might be engaged – and of course people are being normal about it
What is it about Tom Holland and Zendaya? No really, please tell me. Both of these perfectly good actors seem like perfectly nice and interesting [more…]
Demi Moore’s stellar second act: how the star was finally given her due at 62
Maybe she was just acting, but Demi Moore seemed genuinely surprised to win a Golden Globe on Sunday night. “I’m just in shock right now,” [more…]
‘It’s easy to call what she did evil’: inside Denmark’s Oscars entry, about a serial child murderer
The citizens of Denmark enjoy a reputation for living an exceptionally stress-free existence. This is in large part due to the small Scandinavian state’s unusually [more…]
Architecton review – immersive and imposing meditation on concrete and stone
Victor Kossakovsky is the author of some ambitious and immersively sensory documentaries, including Aquarela from 2018, about the climate crisis, and Gunda from 2020, about [more…]
Golden Globes 2025: the winners, the losers, the red carpet – live!
Deadline ahead of the show. The beefed-up security measures will reportedly include extra officers, snipers on surrounding buildings, and surveillance searches.Ripley, is never afraid of [more…]
