More than 10 years on since the release of Ridley Scott’s The Martian, comes another space-set Andy Weir adaptation that brings adventure back to our screens with an old-school crowd pleaser with the added comedic flair of directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller. We meet Ryland Grace (Ryan Gosling), as he wakes up from some…
And just like that, it’s over. The interminable 2026 awards season has finally come to a close and with it, the inaner discourse can hopefully disappear from our lives. Last night’s ceremony was less dramatic than some had anticipated and ultimately churned out a worthy crop of winners. It was a great all-round ceremony too…
We’ve finally made it to Oscar night after what has felt like one of the longest awards season in recent memory. It’s also become one of the most exciting as frontrunners have failed to emerge in multiple major categories making it feel like it could truly be anyone’s game. While the length of the season…
Maggie Gyllenhaal follows up her sublime directorial debut, The Lost Daughter, with a wildly original, huge swing of a film. Whilst it is exciting to see such a daring film supported by a big studio, unfortunately the film suffers from too many incoherent ideas that leave it in a mess. Set in Chicago in the…
Every now and then a film so original comes along that you can’t quite believe it got made in this day and age and it is a thrill to even see it made it to your local multiplex. Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die is one of those films: a wild, zany adventure that is…
In an age of what sometimes feels like a deluge of streaming documentaries about celebrities, Charli XCX has taken a different route, instead offering a mockumentary behind the brat tour that satirises corporate manufacturing, artistic autonomy (or lack thereof) and when the commercial takes over the art, amongst other things. It is an interesting idea…
The BAFTAs once again proved themselves to be definitively their own entity, that, whilst a core part of the overall awards season and seen by many in some ways as an indicator for the Oscars, are still willing to go their own way when it comes to some big awards. The biggest surprise of the…
More than seven years after the brilliantly fresh American Animals, Bart Layton returns to the big screen with another stylish crime thriller. More exciting than its title suggests, Crime 101 is a slick and entertaining effort that throws back to a bygone era. The film weaves together the lives of three characters as they become…
After months of speculation and pre-film discourse, Emerald Fennell’s “Wuthering Heights” has arrived in cinemas and it is unfortunately everything that was feared and more. Ostensibly adapted from Emily Brontë’s classic novel, the film centres on Cathy Earnshaw (as an adult, Margot Robbie), a young girl living with her father on the Yorkshire moors, with only household…
A gritty, decisively modern prison drama, Wasteman offers a violent and believable look inside that is brought to life by strong performances and the clever use of iPhone footage. We meet Taylor (David Jonsson), a drug addict man in a prison under pressure who finds out he is eligible for early parole if he keeps…
