Rating: 3.0★
There is something undeniably arresting about watching a teenager narrate her own messy, chaotic awakening into a clunky 1970s dictaphone while sketching comic books. It pulled me in immediately, and for a while I thought I was watching something genuinely special. By the end, I was left with something more
Rating: 3.0★
Some films arrive with a completely unexpected key that unlocks them. I pressed play on Monkey Shines expecting a reasonably straightforward 80s horror thriller, and about twenty minutes in, I had one of those bizarre pop-culture lightbulb moments that genuinely stopped me in my tracks. This is the exact
Rating: 3.0★
There is something quietly remarkable about the fact that The Legend of Johnny Lingo exists at all. I came to it the way I come to a lot of films these days: not because anyone was clamouring for me to watch it, but because it was my pick for the
Edinburgh International Film Festival
Thom Lunshof's First Zone, a Dutch post-apocalyptic drama premiering In Competition at the Edinburgh International Film Festival. Beautifully shot and scored with a strong lead, but a world left frustratingly unexplained.
Rating: 3.0★
There's a moment in The Secret of NIMH where you catch yourself leaning forward, genuinely unsettled, and then you remember this is supposed to be a Saturday afternoon film for kids. That tension, that slight discomfort at how dark and serious everything feels, is really the whole story
Rating: 3.0★
Whenever the names Werner Herzog and Klaus Kinski come up in the same breath, the phrase "toxic relationship" practically hangs in the air like smoke. Their final collaboration together is a glaring reminder of why. I often find myself wondering what on earth kept drawing them back to
Rating: 3.0★
The cover art had me completely fooled. Something about the imagery suggested I was in for a horror film, the kind that lingers in your peripheral vision and makes you uneasy in the dark. So when Antoneta Kastrati's Zana revealed itself to be something else entirely, something far
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: 3.0★
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: 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: 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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