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Film review: Undertone

Film review: Undertone

When paranormal podcasters Evy and Justin receive an email with disturbing audio clips, they begin experiencing a series of strange events that blur the line between real life, and the supernatural. There are two genres of modern entertainment culture at …read more

Film review: The Bride!

Film review: The Bride!

Longing for a companion, the monster of Frankenstein seeks doctor Euphronios to make him a bride. Bringing a murdered young woman back to life begins a series of unforeseen, deep-seated carnage. In 1818 Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, under the pen name …read more

Film review: Wuthering Heights

Film review: Wuthering Heights

Cathy seeks the ultimate comfort in a beautiful yet loveless financial marriage, though Heathcliff’s undying adoration keeps drawing her back in. Initially published in 1847 under Emily Brontë’s pen name ‘Ellis Bell’, with purposeful sexual ambiguity; to disguise her then scorned …read more

Film review: Rental Family

Film review: Rental Family

Out of work and emotionally bruised, American actor Phillip finds purpose once more in Japan, as he fills the physical and emotional voids of everyday people around him through a companionship rental agency. Directed by Hikari (Memoirs of a Geisha) …read more

Film review: Avatar: Fire & Ash

Film review: Avatar: Fire & Ash

Still reeling from the events of the last film, Jake (Sam Worthington) and Neytiri (Zoe Saldana) must defend themselves and their family against another onslaught from the ‘Sky People’. (Warning: Mild Avatar 2 & 3 spoilers ahead) Three years ago, …read more

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: 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: 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: 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: Happy Gilmore 2

Film review: Happy Gilmore 2

Happy Gilmore 2 has finally been released on Netflix nearly 30 years after the cult favourite in 1996. Will the film be a hole in one, or has this streaming-only sequel landed in the rough? The new movie written by Adam …read more