May December
Child abuse comedies have somewhat gone out of vogue since the glory days of Home Alone, but Todd Haynes is here to give the genre an overdue glow-up. Based on a […]
Category Archives: New Releases
Thanksgiving
This slasher flick concerns a stampede at a Black Friday sale, a familiar image for anyone who has visited a Westfield or read the short story I wrote 3 years […]
Past Lives
A pair of childhood sweethearts (Greta Lee and Teo Yoo) reconnect in this semi-autobiographical, inter-continental, star-crossed love story. Spanning 24 years, the plot follows Na Young from Seoul to New York […]
The Exorcist: Believer
Inspired by The Exorcist‘s defiling of a childhood bedroom, director David Gordon Green trashes a beloved property in this heretical sequel. 50 years after the events of William Friedkin’s Catholic […]
Killers of the Flower Moon
When black gold is struck in Osage County, white benefactors manage oil assets for the native Americans who own the land. After returning from World War I, Ernest Buckhart (Leonardo […]
Oppenheimer
Cillian Murphy plays the Father of the Atomic Bomb in Oppenheimer, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (and Then Hate the Bomb Again). Christopher Nolan’s […]
The Creator
In 2055, the USA has rejected AI after it nuked Los Angeles. But the state of New Asia has embraced it, turning even its mountain dwelling peasants and monks into […]
Saw X
What do the Saw franchise and Cheryl Cole’s career have in common? They both should have ended after that toilet attack 20 years ago. Saw X takes place between Saw and Saw […]
The Equalizer 3
Everyone’s favourite maths-based vigilante (with the possible exception of John Matrix) is back in this anticlimactic threequalizer. For the final chapter, Bob (Denzel Washington) has quit his job as an […]
Cobweb
A boy (Woody Norman) hears a knock on his bedroom wall in this horror flick called Cobweb, because The Knocking was already taken and sounds stupid. In a particularly stale […]
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