Monster (2023)
Monster is not to be confused with the homonymous Charlize Theron film which is about 20 years older and at least 20 times less Japanese. Like Rashomon meets Luce, this […]
Category Archives: New Releases
Immaculate
A nun (Sydney Sweeney) gets pregnant without having sex in this avowedly pro-choice horror flick they should have called Rosary’s Baby. Horror has such a serious nun habit right now […]
Late Night with the Devil
David Dastmalchian plays Jack Delroy, a late-night talk show host sick of coming second-place to Johnny Carson. In a desperate bid to boost ratings, the opportunistic presenter hosts an occultist […]
Dune: Part Two
Everyone’s favourite royal family is back, as Paul (not the bakery) fights to restore Dune (not the shoe shop) to its former glory as king of the high street. This […]
Imaginary
From the studio behind The Scary Robot and The Scary Pool comes The Scary Bear, a girl-meets-teddy chiller so threadbear it bearly koalafies as a film. The ‘family moves house, […]
When Evil Lurks
A plague has pushed Argentina to the brink of collapse in this 2023 horror flick about two brothers (Ezequiel Rodríguez and Demián Salomon) who find that when society goes to hell, […]
The Zone of Interest
Based on the real-life story of Auschwitz commander Rudolf Höss (Christian Friedel), The Zone of Interest follows Höss and his family as they live out their idyllic life, sharing nothing […]
American Fiction
This comedy is based on Percival Everett’s novel Erasure but renamed American Fiction to sound more like an Oscar movie (and less like an Arnie movie). The story follows Thelonious […]
The Holdovers
I watched Alexander Payne’s The Holdovers on the same day as Godzilla Minus One, which seems an incongruous double-bill until you remember Payne co-wrote Jurassic Park III. It also shares […]
Godzilla Minus One
Godzilla Minus One is the 37th movie in the kaiju franchise, which is considered one of the longest film series of all time by sexists intent on overlooking Barbie, the […]
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