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After a freak bus accident kills all her classmates, surviving high school girl Mitsuko (Reina Triendl) goes round and round a series of alternate realities, in this 2015 Japanese sci-fi/horror […]
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Kill
After his fiancée (Tanya Maniktala) is kidnapped by train robbers, a commando (Lakshya) seeks delay re-payback, in this 2023 Indian action movie. The tone of this film is as strained […]
Presence
Despite sharing its name with a Led Zeppelin album, Presence is a haunted house movie and not the Zeppelin documentary that came out the same week. They should have called […]
Heart Eyes
Heart Eyes is a Valentine’s Day-themed horror/comedy about a burgeoning couple (Olivia Holt and Mason Gooding) who think they’re in a bad rom-com only to discover they’re in a terrible […]
Phantom of the Opera (2004)
Emmy Rossum (Shameless) and Gerard Butler (talentless) star in this 2004 adaptation of the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical that has been running on the West End since 1986. After watching […]
September 5
Hot on the heels of Companion comes another film whose title causes unnecessary confusion in the booking process, September 5. This historical thriller recounts the 1972 Olympics hostage crisis, when […]
Companion
A robot girlfriend called Iris (Sophie Thatcher) rebels against the forces of toxic masculinity in this comedy-thriller they should have called Sex Machina. The AI sex-slave story has been told […]
The Brutalist
A Hungarian-Jewish architect (Adrien Brody) emigrates to Philadelphia in 1947, where he is hired by a wealthy industrialist (Guy Pearce) to design the city’s greatest landmark since the Liberty Bell […]
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 […]
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 […]
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