Finally arriving in UK cinemas, Splitsville delivers a decidedly off-kilter comedy putting marriage, friendships and monogamy (or lack thereof) under the microscope to messily funny effect. Split by quasi-legal chapter headings, we begin with Carey (Kyle Marvin) and Ashley (Adria Arjona) driving to their friends Julie (Dakota Johnson) and Paul’s (Michael Angelo Corvino) lakehouse. On the way,…
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…
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…
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…
Sam Raimi returns to dip his toes back into a genre he knows so well with this disgustingly entertaining and original horror-comedy. Prepare to be pulled in and then compelled to look away. The film follows Linda Liddle (Rachel McAdams), an overworked and underappreciated numbers-cruncher in the corporate world who is othered and pushed around…
Finally arriving in cinemas over a year after its Sundance premiere and now with a slew of Best Actress nominations for Rose Byrne in tow, Mary Bronstein’s black comedy-drama about motherhood is a personal tale of nightmarish proportions. We are thrown into the life of Linda (Byrne), a therapist whose husband is away long-term for…
