The Social Reckoning, 2026.Written and Directed by Aaron Sorkin. Starring Mikey Madison, Jeremy Allen White, Jeremy Strong, Wunmi Mosaku, Betty Gilpin, Billy Magnussen, Bill Burr, Gbenga Akinnagbe, Anna Lambe, Aidan Laprete, Kelley Pereira, Nelson Franklin, Portia Doubleday, Patrick Fischler, Joseph Brooks, Sierra Capri, Tehmina Sunny, and Matthew Nelson-Mahood.SYNOPSIS:Follows Frances Haugen, a young Facebook engineer, who […]
Movie Review – Fjord (2026)
Fjord, 2026.Written and Directed by Cristian Mungiu. Starring Sebastian Stan, Renate Reinsve, Lisa Carlehed, Henrikke Lund-Olsen, Vanessa Ceban, Jonathan Ciprian Breazu, Ellen Dorrit Petersen, Lisa Loven Kongsli, and Markus Tønseth.SYNOPSIS:An immigrant Romanian family living in Norway is subject to an investigation and faces the scrutiny of the local judicial system.From writer/director Cristian Mungiu, Fjord is […]
Movie Review – Crushed (2025)
Crushed, 2025.Directed by Simon Rumley. Starring Steve Oram, Margaux Dietrich, May Nattaporn Rawddon, Kevin Lea Davies, Nadech Chatwin, Christian Ferriera, and Jonathan Samson.SYNOPSIS:A family’s faith and resilience are tested when their daughter is kidnapped, leading to a harrowing journey of discovery and justice.There are movies that are designed to shock with gore and violence, and […]
The Compromise Machine: Just What Happened with 1995’s Judge Dredd?
Adam Page looks back at 1995’s Judge Dredd…There are some failures in the world of moviemaking that don’t really announce themselves straightaway. They don’t crash the plane into the mountain. They just, quietly and incrementally, over the course of eighteen months and several hundred script pages, replace the thing you were supposed to be making […]
Tom Cruise Might Have A Problem
With Tom Cruise struggling at the box office in recent years, how long can he retain full creative control over big-budget movies?When it comes to making movies, there are few artists as passionate and obsessive about the craft as Tom Cruise. He’s spent the best part of the 21st century as a creative force driving […]
4K Ultra HD Review – Interview with the Vampire (1994)
Interview with the Vampire, 1994.Directed by Neil Jordan. Starring Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt, Christian Slater, Antonio Banderas, Kirsten Dunst, Thandiwe Newton, Stephen Rea, and Roger Lloyd Pack.SYNOPSIS:A vampire tells his epic life story: love, betrayal, loneliness, and hunger.Given that the basic principle of 4K UHD is blacker blacks and whiter whites there are certain movies […]
Movie Review – Digger (2026)
Digger, 2026.Directed by Alejandro G. Iñárritu. Starring Tom Cruise, Riz Ahmed, John Goodman, Sandra Hüller, Michael Stuhlbarg, Jesse Plemons, Robert John Burke, Emma D’Arcy, Burn Gorman, Sophie Wilde, Pip Torrens, Mercedes Hernández, Danny Kirrane, James Dryden, Corey Johnson, Ross Hatt, Teddy Hawley, Linxi Doël and R.A. Donnelly.SYNOPSIS:The most powerful man in the world embarks on […]
Movie Review – Verity (2026)
Verity, 2026.Directed by Michael Showalter. Starring Anne Hathaway, Dakota Johnson, Josh Hartnett, Brady Wagner, Ismael Cruz Cordova, Irina Dvorovenko, Sienna Kulovitz, K.K. Moggie, Tom Galantich, Lou Martini Jr., Michael Abbott Jr., Clark Carmichael, Emily McEnroe, Luke Klein, Tanya Lim, Colleen Hoover, Gayle King, Alex Cooper, and Sean Evans.SYNOPSIS:Lowen Ashleigh, hired to ghostwrite for Verity Crawford, […]
Movie Review – Sense and Sensibility (2026)
Sense and Sensibility, 2026.Directed by Georgia Oakley. Starring Daisy Edgar-Jones, Esmé Creed-Miles, Caitríona Balfe, Frank Dillane, George MacKay, Herbert Nordrum, Bodhi Rae Breathnach, and Fiona Shaw.SYNOPSIS:Sense and Sensibility follows two sisters, Elinor and Marianne Dashwood, as they tackle love, loss and financial uncertainty amid the societal expectations of 18th-century England.Over three decades since Ang Lee […]
Zoolander at 25: A Surreal Satirization of the Fashion Industry and Celebrity
On its 25th anniversary, Hasitha Fernando looks at the story behind Zoolander…Although mostly remembered for its quotable lines and Derek Zoolander’s “Blue Steel” look, Zoolander is actually a pretty smart, albeit absurdist, satirization of the lavish lives of the rich and famous, and a deconstruction of the cliches of the fashion industry in its own […]
