Alpha, 2025. Written and Directed by Julia Ducournau. Starring Mélissa Boros, Tahar Rahim, Golshifteh Farahani, and Emma Mackey. SYNOPSIS: Alpha, 13, is a troubled teenager who lives alone with her mother. Their world comes crashing down the day she comes home from school with a tattoo on her arm. Julia Ducournau’s astonishing debut Raw and […]
Movie Review – Die, My Love (2025)
Die, My Love, 2025. Directed by Lynne Ramsay. Starring Jennifer Lawrence, Edward Pattinson, Sissy Spacek, LaKeith Stanfield, and Nick Nolte. SYNOPSIS: Grace, a writer and young mother, is slowly slipping into madness. Locked away in an old house in and around Montana, we see her acting increasingly agitated and erratic, leaving her companion, Jackson, increasingly […]
Movie Review – Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere (2025)
Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere, 2025. Written and Directed by Scott Cooper. Starring Jeremy Allen White, Jeremy Strong, Paul Walter Hauser, Stephen Graham, Odessa Young, David Krumholtz, Gaby Hoffmann, Harrison Gilbertson, Grace Gummer, Marc Maron, Matthew Pellicano Jr., Jayne Houdyshell, Jeff Adler, Jimmy Iovine, Chris Jaymes Bartley Booz, Craig Geraghty, Laura Sametz, Vienna Barrus, Vivienne […]
Book Review – Batman: Revolution
Ricky Church reviews Batman: Revolution… It does not need to be said that Tim Burton’s 1989 epic Batman remains an influential piece of the Caped Crusader’s legacy, shifting perception away from the campy 1960s image to remind audiences Batman is a dark and solitary figure. Burton’s Batman and his sequel Batman Returns are both beloved and iconic even 30 years […]
Movie Review – Blue Moon (2025)
Blue Moon, 2025. Directed by Richard Linklater. Starring Ethan Hawke, Margaret Qualley, Bobby Cannavale, Andrew Scott, Jonah Lees, Simon Delaney, Cillian O’Sullivan, Patrick Kennedy, John Doran, Caitríona Ennis, Ian Dillon, Brian Briggs, Giles Surridge, and Ray Weafer. SYNOPSIS: Tells the story of Lorenz Hart’s struggles with alcoholism and mental health as he tries to save […]
2025 BFI London Film Festival Review – Giant
Giant, 2025. Written and Directed by Rowan Athale. Starring Amir El-Masry, Pierce Brosnan, Ali Saleh, Ghaith Saleh, Katherine Dow Blyton, Olivia Barrowclough, Elika Ashoori, Austin Haynes, Rocco Haynes, Oliver Joseph Brooke, Arian Nik, Big Jake, Kelvin Ade, and Mehdi Mangoli. SYNOPSIS: Inspired by the real-life story of Prince Naseem “Naz” Hamed, a British-Yemeni boxer, and […]
2025 BFI London Film Festival Review – The Choral
The Choral, 2025. Directed by Nicholas Hytner. Starring Ralph Fiennes, Roger Allam, Amara Okereke, Simon Russell Beale and Thomas Howes. SYNOPSIS: A choral society’s male members enlist in World War I, leaving the demanding Dr. Guthrie to recruit teenagers. Together, they experience the joy of singing while the young boys grapple with their impending conscription […]
Comic Book Review – Star Trek: Voyager – Homecoming #2
Villordsutch reviews Star Trek: Voyager – Homecoming #2… Last month’s absolutely storming introduction to Tilly and Susan Bridges’ Star Trek: Voyager series, Homecoming (see our review here), couldn’t have gone any better for this latest IDW Publishing release — a near-perfect continuation of Voyager, now brought to life in comic book form. However, we’re past […]
Slow Horses Season 5 Episode 5 Review – ‘Circus’
Chris Connor reviews the fifth episode of Slow Horses season 5… Slow Horses’ fifth season heads into its endgame with all sorts of questions circling: will Coe and River face repercussions for Gimbell’s death? The bad actors appear splintered but are succeeding all the same. What is their ultimate endgame? We open with one of […]
4K Ultra HD Review – The Return of the Living Dead (1985)
The Return of the Living Dead, 1985. Written and Directed by Dan O’Bannon. Starring Clu Gulager, James Karen, Don Calfa, Thom Mathes, Beverly Randolph, John Philbin, Jewel Shepard, Miguel Nunez, Brian Peck and Linnea Quigley. SYNOPSIS: When two bumbling employees at a medical supply warehouse accidentally release a deadly gas into the air, the vapors […]
