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 […]
Julia Ducournau’s new body horror Alpha gets a trailer and poster
Curzon has shared a UK poster trailer for Alpha, the new psychological body horror from Raw and Titane writer-director Julia Ducournau. Starring Mélissa Boros, Tahar Rahim, Golshifteh Farahani, and Emma Mackey, the film centres on troubled teenager Alpha, as she navigates her difficult relationship with her mother while a mysterious virus sweeps through humanity. Watch […]
Jacques Audiard’s films ranked from worst to best
Matthew Lee ranks Jacques Audiard’s films from worst to best… To coincide with the release of Jacques Audiard’s Dheepan [read our review here], the winner of last year’s Palme d’Or at Cannes Film Festival, we’re looking through this auteur’s back catalogue. With consistent critical acclaim, we’re here to see if such receptions still hold up, and […]
Movie Review – Madame Web (2024)
Madame Web, 2024. Directed by S.J. Clarkson. Starring Dakota Johnson, Sydney Sweeney, Isabela Merced, Celeste O’Connor, Tahar Rahim, Mike Epps, Emma Roberts, Adam Scott, Zosia Mamet, José María Yázpik, Kerry Bishé, Kathy-Ann Hart, and Josh Drennen. SYNOPSIS: Cassandra Webb develops the power to see the future. Forced to confront revelations about her past, she forges […]
Video Review – Madame Web is deliciously messy trash
EJ Moreno with a video review of Sony’s Madame Web… Sony’s latest Spider-Man movie without Spidey, Madame Web, is messy, but it’s a perfect kind of mess. As we are flushed with self-serious superhero films, we need more of these types of movies. For the ecosystem of comic book movies, we need earnestly cheesy films […]
Madame Web posters showcase Sony’s Spider-Women and their villain
Sony Pictures has shared five new character posters for its next instalment in its Spider-Man Universe, Madame Web, featuring Cassandra Webb (Dakota Johnson), Julia Carpenter (Sydney Sweeney), Anya Corazon (Isabela Merced), Mattie Franklin (Celeste O’Connor), and the villainous Ezekiel Sims (Tahar Rahim); take a look here… SEE ALSO: Watch Sony and Marvel’s Madame Web trailer […]
Sony’s Madame Web poster assembles its Spider-Heroes
After unveiling the first trailer last month, Sony Pictures has revealed a new poster for the next chapter in the studio’s Spider-Man Universe, director S.J. Clarkson’s Madame Web, which assembles the cast of the upcoming Marvel movie; take a look here along with a second poster focussing on Dakota Johnson’s Cassandra Webb… SEE ALSO: Dakota […]
Movie Review – Napoleon (2023)
Napoleon, 2023. Directed by Ridley Scott. Starring Joaquin Phoenix, Vanessa Kirby, Tahar Rahim, John Hollingworth, Youssef Kerkour, Davide Tucci, Edouard Philipponnat, Ludivine Sagnier, Matthew Needham, Erin Ainsworth, Thom Ashley, Anna Mawn, Gavin Spokes, and Jonathan Barnwell. SYNOPSIS: An epic that details the checkered rise and fall of French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte and his relentless journey […]
Movie Review – Napoleon (2023)
Napoleon, 2023. Directed by Ridley Scott. Starring Joaquin Phoenix, Vanessa Kirby, Tahar Rahim, John Hollingworth, Youssef Kerkour, Davide Tucci, Edouard Philipponnat, Ludivine Sagnier, Matthew Needham, Erin Ainsworth, Thom Ashley, Anna Mawn, Gavin Spokes, and Jonathan Barnwell. SYNOPSIS: An epic that details the checkered rise and fall of French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte and his relentless journey […]
Dakota Johnson and Sydney Sweeney star in Sony and Marvel’s Madame Web trailer
Sony Pictures and Marvel have released the trailer for their latest comic-book collaboration in Sony’s Spider-Man Universe, the Dakota Johnson-headlined adaptation of Madame Web, which stars the Fifty Shades actor as Cassandra Webb, a clairvoyant mutant connected to the multiverse. Directed by SJ Clarkson, Madame Web also stars Sydney Sweeney, Celeste O’Connor, Isabela Merced, Tahar […]