Rating: 4.0★
When you think of David Lynch, your mind likely drifts to surreal nightmares, flickering neon, and industrial dread. You do not, typically, picture a family-friendly road trip across the American Midwest on a ride-on lawnmower. Yet here we are, and I mean that as the highest possible compliment:
Rating: 4.0★
Few premises could feel more of the moment than this one. A man gives a quarter of a century to the same company, and then, one day, new owners decide that AI and automation can do his job for less. He is out. Just like that. No sentiment, no severance
Rating: 4.0★
For a debut feature, Talk to Me arrives with an almost indecent confidence. There is a moment early on, as a crowded room of teenagers passes around an embalmed severed hand and queues up to let something dead climb inside them for ninety seconds, where you realise the Philippou brothers
Rating: 4.0★
The most genuinely terrifying thing about Nightcrawler isn't the nocturnal car chases, or the flashbulbs popping in blood-soaked suburban living rooms. It's the creeping, stomach-dropping realisation that people like Louis Bloom actually exist. I've crossed paths with them in the corporate world,
Rating: 4.0★
There's a particular kind of dread that comes with revisiting a film you loved as a teenager. You build it up over the years, smooth out its rough edges in memory, and then sit down to watch it again with the nagging suspicion that you're about
Rating: 4.0★
There's a very specific, visceral thump to the soundtrack of mid90s that hit me somewhere deep in the chest the moment it started. I was a skater kid growing up in the UK, and those tracks, that particular blend of hip hop and noise rock bleeding from a
Rating: 4.0★
If you've had a small child in the house at any point this century, you will know The Gruffalo more or less off by heart, whether you meant to or not. Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler's picture book is a fixture of British bedtimes, and there&
Rating: 4.0★
There is a moment early in Gran Torino where Clint Eastwood, snarling on his porch over the barrel of a rifle, looks less like a man than a monument. Some forty years on from the squint and the poncho of The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, still the finest
2020s
Every so often a short film comes along and quietly shames the features. Something Pointless runs a mere fourteen minutes, and in that time it takes on illness, mortality and childhood bullying, and lands an emotional punch that plenty of two hour dramas spend their whole runtime reaching for and
Rating: 4.0★
There is a very specific, primal dread associated with picking up a stranger on a desolate stretch of highway, and Robert Harmon's 1986 thriller The Hitcher weaponises that exact anxiety to brilliant effect. It gets under your skin almost immediately, tapping into something ancient and instinctive, the kind
Rating: 4.0★
There is a premise at the heart of The Defiant Ones so brilliantly simple it almost feels like a provocation: two escaped convicts, one Black and one white, physically shackled together by a heavy iron chain. Stanley Kramer had the nerve to put that image on screen in 1958, long
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
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