The main thing you need to remember when watching this dark Spanish masterclass is that everything will reveal itself in due time. I found myself becoming a bit frustrated early on, as the meanderings and daily work of a lonely nurse take centre stage. But sticking with this movie paid off in spades, as La…

When action-comedy vehicle The Hitman’s Bodyguard premiered in 2017, it was one of the biggest crowd-pleasers of the year. The riotous, go-for-broke stylings of the film reeled me in. It found joy in pitting hitman Darius Kincaid with AAA-rated bodyguard Michael Bryce, and watching them clash and remain at odds with each other. Propelled by…

Queen Of Spades is a film that plays out like a mythical, low-rent Candyman. It’s unoriginal and manages to make demonic possession and terrifying lore somewhat tame. In the same vein as almost every film of its ilk that came before, it follows a legend where if you call the witchly Queen Of Spades in…

Pop star Kate Nash hit it big at the tender age of 18, and her rise and fall from superstardom is chronicled in Kate Nash: Underestimate the Girl. A well-shot, immersive documentary, it’s well-done and refreshingly honest. The major problem, though, is I barely knew Nash’s work prior, and this feature didn’t particularly make me…

This brutal film about youth being pulled into a life of drugs and crime takes its journey through the eyes of former child criminal Akilla. Now a grown man, Akilla becomes caught up in a drug robbery at a dispensary. Only there to sell his boss’s product, he watches a man murdered with a machete…

In this horror-thriller, co-writer and director Giles Alderson puts together an interesting film. There’s no doubting he took his time crafting a film he was proud of. There is no doubt Alderson can weave an intricate story, but unfortunately he doesn’t go far enough with The Dare. When a family man is kidnapped from his…

Of all the films I’ve seen in 2021, this one is by far the most deserving to be seen on a big, beautiful screen as soon as humanly possible. The extravagance and beautiful wonderment with which I watched this musical slackjawed is above anything I could have imagined. From Hamilton scribe Lin-Manuel Miranda comes this…

Though the story of a man who fought an empire might be an interesting one, this film about civilization is anything but transformative. Following Sir James Brooke, it chronicles his journey in the 1840s as he begins to rule a kingdom in Borneo, much to the chagrin of his employer, the British Empire. He fights…

As someone who had to sleep with the lights on after watching the first Conjuring film, it’s safe to say I was a fan of the franchise from the jump. I love being scared, and if a film can affect me long after the credits roll, it’s done its job. Sadly, this whole Insidious universe…

Perhaps the most admirable thing about live action origin story Cruella is that it takes big swings. Even more impressive is that more often than not, it hits its plot beats, costumes, and character interpretations out of the park. Cruella is not an easy film – it’s a different shade of Disney that we don’t…