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Film review: Bugonia

Film review: Bugonia

Lanthimos’s conspiracy thriller starring Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons explores the madness of modern paranoia through a twisted version of an alien abduction story that is delightfully deranged and utterly gripping. This time, he’s remaking Jang Joon-hwan’s 2003 South Korean …read more

Film review: Good Boy

Film review: Good Boy

Filmed over 400 days spanning three years, Good Boy is a haunted-house horror told from a dog’s point of view. Directed by Ben Leonberg and co-written by Alex Cannon, the film stars Leonberg’s real-life dog, Indy – a Nova Scotia …read more

Film review: Wicked: For Good

Film review: Wicked: For Good

Elphaba and Glinda’s paths begin to diverge, as they both seek to bring balance back to an increasingly devolving land of Oz, for good.   Directed once again by the technically gifted Jon M. Chu who filmed both Wicked and …read more

Film review: Roofman

Film review: Roofman

Intelligent but broke, ex-soldier/convict Jeffrey Manchester finds breaking into McDonald’s restaurants easy—until he meets single mother Leigh Wainscott, and his life gets complicated again. Roofman is one of those true stories that if Hollywood had made it up, it would …read more

Film review: One Battle After Another

Film review: One Battle After Another

Paul Thomas Anderson has long been hailed as a modern master – and with One Battle After Another, he knocks it out of the park yet again.   Following his breakout Boogie Nights (1997) and classics like Magnolia (1999) and …read more

Film review: Eddington

Film review: Eddington

Ari Aster returns with his most frustratingly brilliant work yet – a searing, exhausting examination of American society through the lens of a fictional New Mexico town during COVID-19’s most divisive period. Eddington is less a traditional western than it …read more

Film review: Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale

Film review: Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale

Lady Mary’s scandalous public divorce and Harold Levinson’s not so secret financial trouble form the veritable backbone to Downton Abbey’s last hurrah! Originally created and written almost twenty years ago by Julian Fellowes, whose previous works also included The Young Victoria …read more

Film review: Materialists

Film review: Materialists

New York City matchmaker Lucy, tries to balance her life between an imperfect job and her own imperfect pending personal relationships. Written and directed by Celine Song, who gave us the Oscar nominated, thought provoking and beautifully balanced Past Lives comes …read more

Film review: The Conjuring: Last Rites

Film review: The Conjuring: Last Rites

The Warrens’ last stand comes with warmth and atmosphere, though The Conjuring: Last Rites plays it safer than it should. I’ve been a fan of The Conjuring series for a long time. The first one back in 2013 pulled me …read more

Film review: KPop Demon Hunters

Film review: KPop Demon Hunters

  Kpop Demon Hunters was a combination of words I’d never thought would go together, but I was incredibly wrong and this film was a welcome breath of fresh air from Netflix. Netflix have recently released a new animated movie …read more