Rating: 2.5★
There is a particular kind of late-night television that belongs entirely to adolescence: fuzzy signal, borrowed time, the sense that the world on screen is more alive than the one outside the bedroom window. I Saw the TV Glow (2024) takes that feeling as its raw material. Set in
Rating: 2.5★
Mountain gorillas have held a particular place in wildlife filmmaking ever since Dian Fossey began her fieldwork in the Rwandan Virungas in the late 1960s, and the story of that population, its near-collapse and its slow, hard-won recovery, is one of conservation's more genuinely encouraging chapters.
Rating: 2.5★
Few films carry as much critical freight as The Passion of Joan of Arc. Released in 1928 by the French studio Société générale des films, it dramatises the trial and execution of Jeanne d'Arc, drawing not from dramatised invention but from the actual transcripts of her ecclesiastical trial
Rating: 2.5★
The Violet Evergarden franchise occupies a particular and well-regarded corner of contemporary anime. Based on the light novel series by Kana Akatsuki, it began as a television series produced by Kyoto Animation and first aired in early 2018, quickly building a devoted audience drawn to its post-war setting,
Rating: 2.5★
Alex North's novel The Whisper Man arrived in 2019 to considerable commercial success, sitting comfortably within the tradition of British psychological crime fiction that puts grief and parenthood at the centre of its horror. The premise, a widowed father whose young son disappears, and the retired detective grandfather
Rating: 2.5★
South Brooklyn has long served as fertile ground for American independent cinema, a neighbourhood dense enough with working-class texture and immigrant history to make almost any story feel lived-in before the first line of dialogue is spoken. Tendaberry (2024) plants itself squarely in that tradition, following 23-year-
Rating: 2.5★
There is a particular corner of European cinema that seems almost duty-bound to make its audience uncomfortable, and The Tribe, the 2014 Ukrainian drama from writer-director Myroslav Slaboshpytskyi, sits squarely in that tradition. The premise is both simple and disquieting: a teenage boy, Sergey, arrives at a residential
Rating: 2.5★
Beatrix Potter's Peter Rabbit first appeared in 1902 as a privately printed picture letter, and the little blue-coated rabbit has been a fixture of British childhood ever since. The stories are gentle things: soft watercolours, a walled garden, a bad-tempered gardener, and the quiet moral that
Rating: 2.5★
Mike Judge had already proved himself a sharp, sardonic observer of American cultural mediocrity long before Idiocracy arrived in 2006. His animated series Beavis and Butt-Head (and its big-screen spin-off, Beavis and Butt-Head Do America) skewered the slack-jawed end of the pop culture spectrum with
Rating: 2.5★
Frank Herbert's 1965 novel Dune has spent decades being called unfilmable, which is either a challenge or a warning depending on who you ask. David Lynch found out the hard way in 1984, producing a film so chaotic and misshapen that Herbert himself reportedly walked out of an
Rating: 2.5★
When Scary Movie landed in cinemas in the summer of 2000, it arrived on the back of a very specific cultural moment: the late-Nineties slasher revival, led by the Scream franchise and its many imitators, had given the parody genre a fresh set of targets. The film was a
Rating: 2.5★
By the summer of 2019, the Marvel Cinematic Universe was standing at something of a crossroads. Avengers: Endgame had landed just a couple of months earlier, closing out more than a decade of interconnected storytelling and leaving audiences wondering where the whole machine could possibly go next. Spider-Man: Far
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