Rating: 3.0★
Rachel Sennott made me queue this up. Simple as that. After being completely won over by her in Shiva Baby and Bottoms, I knew she was one of the most exciting young comic performers working right now, and I wasn't about to let a slasher-comedy with her
Rating: 2.5★
I'll hold my hands up straight away: I'm not the biggest fan of the modern superhero industrial complex. There's a formula, and almost everybody sticks rigidly to it. You get your quippy hero, your globe-trotting set pieces, and then, inevitably, a third act
Rating: 2.0★
It took me watching two separate Andrew Garfield-led Spider-Man films to suddenly realise that the director's surname is Webb. I found that delayed epiphany significantly more amusing than anything that actually happens on screen in The Amazing Spider-Man 2. When a sequel leaves you more
Rating: 4.0★
Let's get one thing straight: It's a Wonderful Life is not the cosy, feel-good Christmas card its reputation suggests. I went in half-expecting warm cocoa and sleigh bells, and what I got was something far more unsettling, and far more impressive, than that. The
Rating: 3.0★
Ten films deep into a director's back catalogue and you start to think you know what you're getting. With George A. Romero, I thought I had a reasonable handle on it: sharp social commentary wrapped in viscera, monsters as metaphor, chaos as critique. Then I sat
Rating: 3.5★
Sometimes you don't need much of an excuse to queue something up. I came to Dario Argento's 1970 directorial debut for two reasons: Argento himself, and Ennio Morricone. And honestly, Morricone was the more pressing of the two. I genuinely consider him the finest composer in
Rating: 4.0★
Let's talk about practical effects, because if any film makes the case for them over weightless, pixelated CGI, it's this one. The Fly is the gold standard of body horror, and the reason it works so ferociously well comes down to latex, foam, and fake blood
Rating: 3.5★
When you put Michael Caine and Harvey Keitel in the same frame, something almost alchemical happens. You don't even need to build much of a story around them. Just point the camera, get out of the way, and let two absolute powerhouses do what they've spent
Rating: 2.0★
There is a very specific point where a beloved sci-fi franchise stops being a sharp, satirical triumph and simply devolves into a corporate cash grab. RoboCop 3 is that exact point, and I say that as someone who genuinely loves the original and has a soft spot for the
Rating: 4.0★
I'll be honest: seeing Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse sitting at a higher rating than its predecessor on Letterboxd left me genuinely baffled. Not angry, not defensive, just... baffled. Because while this 2023 sequel is an extraordinary piece of work in several respects, I came out of
Rating: 4.5★
I am rarely one to sing the praises of the modern superhero industrial complex. You probably know this about me by now. Outside of the original X-Men trilogy and The Dark Knight, I've almost never handed out a score higher than average to a cape-and-cowl
Rating: 3.5★
I still have a vivid memory of standing in the school playground, clutching a plastic RoboCop action figure, completely oblivious to the razor-sharp, deeply inappropriate satire I was holding in my eight-year-old hands. That memory says everything about the strange cultural place these films occupy. They were
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