Category Archives: Film Reviews

“Y’all wanna hear a story about why me & this bitch here fell out?! It’s kinda long but full of suspense”” Have you ever seen a film that feels genetically engineered to piss off the correct people? That’s only a slight appeal of dark-comedy-drama Zola, the latest offering from A24’s sometimes painfully hip stables.  BasedContinue reading “Zola (2021): Tapping Into Gen-Z”

David Bruckner’s The Night House was a real sleeper hit for me, having first played in January 2020 at Sundance I heard nothing about this film until only a few weeks ago when I saw the trailer at the cinema. But the trailer alone was enough to entice me, so when it came out IContinue reading “The Night House (2021), the Sleeper Hit of the Year”

Let me set the scene for you.  In 1979 Margaret Thatcher is elected to office in the UK on a platform of evisceration of the power of trade unions and privatisation of the UK’s many nationalised industries. As a result industrialised areas of the UK are left victims of predatory corporate interest without recourse toContinue reading “Censor (2021), Cutting to the Heart”

Nia DaCosta’s Candyman, and it very much is DaCosta’s film rather than producer Jordan Peele’s film despite some people trying to label it as such, is a direct sequel and spiritual successor to Bernard Rose’s 1992 film of the same name. Taking the widely acclaimed classic, that in it’s own right tackled issues of raceContinue reading “Candyman (2021), A Revamped Take on a Classic”

Back in 2016, David Ayer’s Suicide Squad was one of my most anticipated films of the year, I remember going to see it with a group of friends in the cinema and hyping up how great it was going to be, until it started. Now I do feel somewhat sorry for David Ayer with theContinue reading “The Suicide Squad (2021), a Unique, Cartoonish, & Fun Comic Book Movie Unlike Any We’ve Seen Before.”

Jacob Calta examines a documentary surrounding a Southern theme park, a story told in an engaging debut from Jake Williams of “Bright Sun Films” fame.

Content Warning: Discussion of rape & incest in this review and within the film. I wish I had watched this film because I’d heard a lot about it, and wanted to experience a film I’d heard a tremendous amount of praise and acclaim for. Unfortunately this wasn’t the case, until I saw it while scrollingContinue reading “The War Zone (1999), Yet Another underrated British Gem”

Guy Ritchie for me is not so much a hit-and-miss filmmaker as he has a hit-and-miss style. His background in directing music videos and commercials has been instrumental and key to Ritchie’s entire approach to the medium of film much like other directors who got their start making videos like David Fincher, Michael Bay, SpikeContinue reading “Wrath of Man (2021) – The Good Guy (Ritchie)”

This movie is perplexing for a variety of reasons. What is this movie? Why does it exist? What even is it? Now, these aren’t words normally said about a movie playing to the same market as Book Club but this is directed by Steven Soderbergh dammit! This is the guy who remade Solaris and didn’tContinue reading “Let Them All Talk (2020), Comfort Food For Soderbergh Fans”