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,…
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…
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…
Ah the cinema, that famously social activity where you enter a dark room and sit in complete silence for a couple of hours. People are afraid to do a lot of things alone, and the cinema seems to sit high on that list for many. It is reductive to say that there aren’t social benefits…
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…
Unusually arriving before the BAFTA nominations (we’ll see how those shake out next week), the nominations for the pinnacle prize of Awards Season have finally been announced. In what has been a fairly steady and predictable season so far, there aren’t too many major snubs or surprises that haven’t been alluded to in the precursors;…
