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Pride month tends to bring out the usual suspects, doesn't it? The safe choices, the ones that have already done the festival circuit twice over and settled comfortably into the "essential viewing" category. But there's a whole other world of queer cinema out there,
Rating: 3.0★
"Mother of mercy, is this the end of Rico?" It's one of the most quoted final lines in film history, and the fact that you probably already know it tells you everything about the strange position Little Caesar occupies. This is a film that matters enormously,
Rating: 2.5★
There's a version of When Evil Lurks that could have been one of the great modern horror films. The practical effects alone are worth acknowledging: grotesque, inventive, and crafted with a genuine commitment to physical horror that puts most studio genre fare to shame. The makeup work is
Rating: 3.5★
There's a moment early in Ema where the camera just sits with its subject as she moves through a neon-lit Santiago street, reggaeton thumping beneath her, and you realise you're not going to be given any easy way into this woman. She's magnetic
Rating: 4.0★
Claude Rains never shows his face. That's the trick, and it shouldn't work as well as it does. For virtually the entire runtime of James Whale's The Invisible Man, your lead actor is a voice, a set of bandages, and a pair of trousers
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I watched a film from every country on Earth. Now it is time to find out which one wins in a head to head knockout tournament.
Rating: 3.0★
There's a specific kind of heartbreak that comes not from a dramatic falling out or a grand betrayal, but from the quiet, creeping realisation that time is running out. That's the feeling I'm Drunk, I Love You is chasing, and for the most part,
Rating: 1.0★
Franco Nero deserves better than this. That's not a particularly original observation, but sitting through Killer Mermaid, it's the thought that kept circling back to me. Here is an actor with genuine presence and a genuine legacy, turning up in a Montenegrin creature feature that can&
Rating: 2.5★
Jason Momoa is doing something in Fast X, I'm just not entirely sure it belongs in this film. He's prancing about, cracking jokes, painting his nails, and chewing scenery like he's been told the cameras are rolling on an entirely different franchise. And here&
Rating: 2.0★
There's a moment in F9 where two characters are launched into actual outer space in a modified car strapped to a rocket. Not metaphorically. Not in a dream sequence. Into orbit. And the film just... carries on, as if that's a perfectly reasonable thing to happen
Rating: 4.0★
What does it mean to want to be seen? That's the question humming underneath every frame of Salaam Cinema, and it's one I haven't been able to shake since watching it. Mohsen Makhmalbaf turns a simple premise, open auditions for a film in Tehran,
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There's a curious thing that happens when you mention 90s thrillers in conversation: someone always pipes up with the same two or three titles, and everyone nods knowingly. The decade produced a genuine renaissance in the form, a moment when intelligent action cinema and psychological tension went hand
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