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Movie Review – Street Fighter (2026)

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Street Fighter, 2026. Directed by Kitao Sakurai Starring Noah Centineo, Andrew Koji, Callina Liang, Cody Rhodes, Orville Peck, Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson, Vidyut Jammwal, Olivier Richters, Hirooki Goto, David Dastmalchian, Eric André, Joe “Roman Reigns” Anoa’i, Andrew Schulz, Mel Jarnson, Rayna Vallandingham, and Alexander Volkanovski.SYNOPSIS:Street Fighters Ryu and Ken reunite when Chun-Li recruits them for the […]

Movie Review – Whalefall (2026)

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Whalefall, 2026.Directed by Brian Duffield Starring Austin Abrams, Josh Brolin, Elisabeth Shue, John Ortiz, Jane Levy, and Emily Rudd.SYNOPSIS:Follows a scuba diver who, while looking for his father’s remains, is swallowed by an 80-foot, 60-ton sperm whale and has just one hour to get out before his oxygen runs out.As far as metaphors go, processing […]

2026 BFI London Film Festival Review – Klara and The Sun

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Klara and the Sun, 2026. Directed by Taika Waititi. Starring Jenna Ortega, Amy Adams, Mia Tharia, Aran Murphy, Steve Buscemi, and Natasha Lyonne.SYNOPSIS: A robot girl designed to prevent loneliness tries to save a heartbroken family of humans.Taika Waititi excels when directing an ensemble in an off-kilter tale full of eccentricity and heart, so choosing to adapt […]

Video Review – Crystal Lake is the Stranger Things-ifcation of Friday The 13th

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EJ Moreno reviews Peacock’s Crystal Lake…We’re finally back in Crystal Lake, and it’s a bloody glorious return! Peacock and A24 have teamed up to deliver a love letter to one of the greatest horror franchises ever. It’s hard to talk about the Friday the 13th prequel series without diving into spoiler territory, but between a […]

Movie Review – Ken Russell’s The Devils

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The Devils: The Director’s Cut, 1971.Directed by Ken Russell Starring Vanessa Redgrave, Oliver Reed, Dudley Sutton, Max Adrian, Gemma Jones, Murray Melvin, Michael Gothard, Georgina Hale, Christopher Logue, and Graham Armitage. SYNOPSIS: In 17th-century France, Father Urbain Grandier is a charismatic priest whose unorthodox views on sex and religion inspire a passionate following of nuns, including the sexually […]

2026 BFI London Film Festival Review – Ink

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Ink, 2026. Directed by Danny Boyle Starring Jack O’Connell, Guy Pearce, Claire Foy, Jonathan Hyde, Blake Harrison, Brian Gleeson, Angus Imrie, Patrick Kennedy, Lucy Russell, and Christopher Fulford.SYNOPSIS:In 1969, as rising media tycoon acquires the daily newspaper “The Sun,” his partnership with editor Larry Lamb turns the paper into Britain’s most influential tabloid.Danny Boyle moves from […]

Movie Review – You Can See Everything (2026)

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You Can See Everything, 2026.Directed by Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim. Featuring Elizabeth Holmes, Nathan Fielder, and Billy Evans.SYNOPSIS:Thirty-four days before she’s sent to prison, notorious Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes invites a skeptical film crew to document her every move. What begins as an intimate portrait becomes a mind-bending three-year journey.34 days before Elizabeth Holmes […]

Movie Review – Whalefall (2026)

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Whalefall, 2026. Directed by Brian Duffield Starring Austin Abrams, Josh Brolin, Elisabeth Shue, John Ortiz, Jane Levy, and Emily Rudd.SYNOPSIS: Following the death of his father, Jay Gardiner (Austin Abrams) goes diving off the central Coast of California in search of his remains, but is swallowed by a massive sperm whale.American author Kurt Vonnegut famously said that […]

Slow Horses Season 6 Episode 5 Review – ‘Sayonara’

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Chris Connor reviews the penultimate episode of Slow Horses season 6…The pieces finally slot into place in the penultimate episode of Slow Horses’ sixth season. With Sid in the custody of the Russians, River is forced to hijack a civilian vehicle and give chase. It’s a breathless opening as both Sid and River are pushed […]

Movie Review – Sense and Sensibility (2026)

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Sense and Sensibility, 2026.Directed by Georgia Oakley. Starring Daisy Edgar-Jones, Esmé Creed-Miles, Caitríona Balfe, Bodhi Rae Breathnach, Frank Dillane, George MacKay, Herbert Nordrum, Fiona Shaw, Stacy Martin, Tom Brooke, Chloe Pirrie, Forrest Bothwell, Bethany Slater, Eliot Sumner, Ceara Coveney, Turlough Convery, Sophie McGibbon, Charlie Varlet, and Paulie Bovingdon.SYNOPSIS:A story of love, family, and sisterhood based […]