The President’s Cake, 2025. Written and Directed by Hasan Hadi. Starring Banin Ahmad Nayef, Sajad Mohamad Qasem Waheed, Thabet Khreibat, Rahim AlHaj, Muthanna Malaghi, Ahmad Qasem Saywan, Thaer Salem, Fatima Abouharoon, Mohammed Rheimeh, Rokia Alwadi, Abdelkarim Jasim, Maytham Mreidi, and Nadia Rashak. SYNOPSIS: In 1990s Iraq, nine-year-old Lamia must bake Saddam Hussein’s birthday cake. She […]
Movie Review – Goodbye June (2025)
Goodbye June, 2025. Directed by Kate Winslet. Starring Kate Winslet, Toni Collette, Johnny Flynn, Andrea Riseborough, Timothy Spall, Helen Mirren, Stephen Merchant, Fisayo Akinade, Jeremy Swift, and Raza Jaffrey. SYNOPSIS: Four siblings’ lives change drastically when their ailing mother takes a turn for the worse over the holiday season. Making her directorial debut, Kate Winslet’s Goodbye […]
Movie Review – Ella McCay (2025)
Ella McCay, 2025. Written and Directed by James L. Brooks. Starring Emma Mackey, Jamie Lee Curtis, Woody Harrelson, Spike Fearn, Ayo Edebiri, Albert Brooks, Rebecca Hall, Jack Lowden, Kumail Nanjiani, Sheetal Sheth, Erica McDermott, Anthony Gaita, Julie Kavner, Becky Ann Baker, Joel Brooks, Troy Garity, Michael Balzano III, Kellen Raffaelo, Pamela Figueiredo, Tierre Diaz, and […]
Daisy Ridley on Star Wars: New Jedi Order and cancelled The Hunt for Ben Solo
With the Star Wars franchise in a dry spell on the big screen, at least until next summer’s The Mandalorian & Grogu, there’s been rumblings lately of potential projects that have yet to come to screen. Sequel Trilogy star Daisy Ridley recently spoke about her film Star Wars: New Jedi Order following Rey Skywalker and the news of the cancelled […]
More LEGO Star Wars Winter 2026 sets officially revealed
Following an early look at LEGO’s mid-scale AT-AT, Venator-Class Attack Cruiser, and buildable BB-8 model, The LEGO Group has now unveiled five more sets from its Star Wars Winter 2026 line-up with a Siege of Mandalore battle pack from The Clone Wars, The Mandalorian & Grogu’s Speeder Bike, Grogu’s Homestead, and Cobb Vanth’s Speeder from […]
Movie Review – Fackham Hall (2025)
Fackham Hall, 2025. Directed by Jim O’Hanlon. Starring Thomasin McKenzie, Emma Laird, Damian Lewis, Katherine Waterston, Lizzie Hopley, Tom Felton, Tom Goodman-Hill, Lee Boardman, Ben Radcliffe, Lily Knight, Jimmy Carr, Charlie Rawes, Adam Woodward, Nathan Hall, Alex Butler, Magdalena Sverlander, Tim McMullan, Laurie Ogden, Paula Wharton, Gemma Wardle, and Erin Austen. SYNOPSIS: A new porter […]
Movie Review – Dust Bunny (2025)
Dust Bunny, 2025. Written and Directed by Bryan Fuller. Starring Sophie Sloan, Mads Mikkelsen, Sigourney Weaver, David Dastmalchian, Rebecca Henderson, Sheila Atim and Nóra Trokán. SYNOPSIS: An eight-year-old girl asks her scheming neighbor for help in killing the monster under her bed that she thinks ate her family. As far as cinematic metaphors go, the […]
4K Ultra HD Review – Caught Stealing (2025)
Caught Stealing, 2025. Directed by Darren Aronofsky. Starring Austin Butler, Regina King, Zoë Kravitz, Matt Smith, Liev Schreiber, Vincent D’Onofrio, Benito Martínez Ocasio, Griffin Dunne and Carol Kane. SYNOPSIS: Darren Aronofky’s latest, Caught Stealing, arrives on 4K Ultra HD with a smattering of bonus features and a code for a digital copy. It’s a fun […]
Movie Review – A Private Life (2025)
A Private Life, 2025. Directed by Rebecca Zlotowski. Starring Jodie Foster, Daniel Auteuil, Virginie Efira, Mathieu Amalric, Vincent Lacoste, Luàna Bajrami, Noam Morgensztern, Sophie Guillemin, Frederick Wiseman, Aurore Clément, Irène Jacob, Park Ji-Min, Jean Chevalier, Emma Ravier, Scott Agnesi Delapierre, and Lucas Bleger. SYNOPSIS: The renowned psychiatrist Lilian Steiner mounts a private investigation into the […]
From Banned to Beloved: Video Nasties That Deserve Critical Re-evaluation
Adam Page delves into the world of the video nasty to see which of the controversial shockers deserve critical re-evaluation… I get it, I really do. Back when Mary Whitehouse and her gang of pearl-clutching warriors put together their list of 72 movies they deemed too dangerous for the British public in 1984, they were […]
