Rating: 3.0★
I still maintain that the 1979 The Muppet Movie is a near-masterpiece of joy, and I'd happily extend that warmth to The Muppet Christmas Carol and Muppet Treasure Island as solid, fun detours in the same spirit. So when James Bobin's 2011 reboot landed, I
Rating: 3.5★
There's something almost rebellious about how unashamed A Boy Named Charlie Brown is of its own age. Press play and within seconds you're confronted with scratchy lines, flat colours, and character movements that creak along with a kind of charming stiffness. This is nearly sixty years
Rating: 3.5★
There's a particular image of Polynesian culture that documentaries and films have spent years carefully constructing, and I'll be honest, I've largely bought into it. Films like Kumu Hina painted a genuinely beautiful picture of a society where transgender individuals aren't merely
Rating: 3.0★
There's a certain kind of film that dares you to keep watching, and Glauber Rocha's The Lion Has Seven Heads is very much one of them. It's a baffling, swirling beast of a picture, and I mean that in the most genuinely ambivalent way
Rating: 4.5★
I genuinely paused the screen multiple times just to stare at a single frame. Not to grab a snack, not because something was confusing, but because Katsuhiro Otomo's Neo-Tokyo is so meticulously, breathtakingly rendered that to simply let it play felt almost disrespectful. That's the
Rating: 3.5★
Let me be straight with you: the critics have absolutely savaged this film, and I understand why. On paper, Mortal Kombat II is a bloated, narratively incoherent action film that introduces too many characters, sidelines its most iconic ones, and wastes genuine dramatic potential on clumsy comic relief. All of
Rating: 3.5★
Ten days. Think about that for a second. Just ten days after East Timor gained its independence from Portugal in 1975, Indonesia moved in and began over two decades of brutal occupation. It's one of those historical facts that stops you cold, and it's one that
Rating: 4.0★
My dad was never one for splashing out unnecessarily, but Prince Naseem Hamed's pay-per-view fights were a different matter entirely. I can still picture it now: the two of us squeezed onto the sofa, watching this flamboyant, impossibly cocky kid from Sheffield float into the ring
Rating: 3.0★
I'll be honest: I came into this one expecting to be bored stiff. I'd already sat through Who Killed Captain Alex? and Bad Black, and neither of them did anything for me. I get why people go wild for Wakaliwood. A shoestring budget, an enormous ambition,
Rating: 2.0★
There's a line, even in a franchise built on monsters shooting lightning from their cheeks and evolving via friendship. Pokémon: The Arceus Chronicles vaults clean over it, lands on the other side, and seems perfectly happy about the whole thing. I came to this with reasonable expectations. I
Rating: 3.0★
There's a very specific kind of stupid that takes real commitment to pull off, and Zoolander is absolutely committed to it. Ben Stiller plays Derek Zoolander, a male model so catastrophically dim he makes a career out of a single facial expression, and the film around him is
Rating: 3.0★
There is a specific, suffocating tension to the opening sequence of Leigh Whannell's 2020 reimagining of The Invisible Man that had me genuinely on the edge of my seat. Watching Cecilia, played by a brilliant Elisabeth Moss, execute a breathless, nail-biting escape from the sprawling, high-tech
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