Blink Twice
A cocktail waitress (Naomi Ackie) accompanies a disgraced tech billionaire (Channing Tatum) to his private island, where she slowly realises that partying with tech bros is exactly as fun as […]
Monthly Archives: January 2025
A Complete Unknown
Come gather round people because it’s the latest music biopic from Walk the Line director James Mangold. This time it’s folk superstar Bob Dylan (Thimothée Chalamet), but will he change […]
It’s What’s Inside
Being John Malkovich meets Bodies Bodies Bodies in this sci-fi/comedy about an awful group of friends who swap bodies because they don’t have brains. 2024 Netflix movie It’s What’s Inside […]
Chemical Wedding
Written by Iron Maiden’s Bruce Dickinson, this 2008 sci-fi/horror movie sees a Cambridge professor (Simon Callow) don a virtual reality spacesuit and go Emeritus Psycho when he comes back as […]
A Real Pain
Jewish American cousins David and Benji (Jesse Eisenberg and Kieran Culkin) visit Poland to trace their grandmother’s roots in this buddy comedy/drama. Written and directed by Eisenberg, the semi-autobiographical road […]
Anora
A stripper called Anora (Mikey Madison) marries Vanya her adorer (Mark Eydelshteyn) in this strong awards performer. Sean Baker (The Florida Project) subverts the True Romance-style fantasy about a call […]
Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat
Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat is a 2024 documentary about the coup to overthrow the first Congolese Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba, the United States’ involvement in the Congo Crisis, and […]
The Final Destination
The fourth entry in New Line Cinema’s health and safety lecture series opens with a pile-up at a stock car race that foreshadows the car crash to come. After scaling […]
Nosferatu
Why don’t droids watch vampire movies? Because they’re not-for-R2. Making a Nosferatu movie (as opposed to Dracula) means adapting a film rather than a novel, and therefore requires the recreation […]
Nosferatu the Vampyre
Anyone who saw Nosferatu and thought “this would be better in colour and with talking” should seek out this 1979 remake and get their head examined. Werner Herzog’s 1979 revamp […]
Screen Goblin 