Review: Misbehaviour (2020) – Rebels Creating A Cause

Keira Knightley & Gugu Mbatha-Raw in Misbehaviour The idea of Women's Liberation up until the 1970s was something of an afterthought in a world that assumed people were fine with a status quo that kept women as homemakers, the dependable backbone of a world run by men. If it wasn't for the events of the …

Review: Aladdin (2019) – The Slightly Less Fresh Prince

Mena Massoud and Will Smith in Aladdin While it is easy to look on at the remake culture hitting us lately and wish for more original content it would be a shame to dismiss a fresh perspective just because the story has been told before. While I was disappointed by the release of Dumbo earlier …

Review: Late Night (2019) – Finding Your Voice

Mindy Kaling and Emma Thompson in Late Night Sometimes it is hard not to see yourself in characters. Sometimes it makes films better, others worse. The oftentimes exceptional films are the ones however that you can't. It is the different voices, the underutilised or forgotten ones that break through into films you wouldn't expect that …

Review: Booksmart (2019) – Fond Memories

Beanie Feldstein and Kaitlyn Dever in Booksmart I'm starting to grow weary of using the term 'coming of age movie' in reviews because it has the unfortunate effect of pigeonholing a film into one specific category that doesn't do it justice. Booksmart sure frames itself like one but if you look deeper this is a …

Review: A Dog’s Journey (2019) – Novelty No More

Kathryn Prescott in A Dog's Journey If there was a film that never demanded a sequel but still somehow managed to finagle one thanks to greedy studio executives it would be Lasse Halstrom's A Dog's Purpose, a film that proved perfectly pleasant upon release but lacked any draw outside of the obviously family-friendly dog story. …

Review: Spiderman, Far From Home (2019) – Far From Homecoming

Tom Holland in Spider-Man: Far From Home Watching a Spider-Man film is tough. His track record on the big screen has been marred by poorly developed villains or an over-reliance on mythology designed to service fans and not a story. When the character entered the MCU it was hailed as a bold move that solidified …

Review: How To Build A Girl (2020) – A Family of Wolves

Beanie Feldstein in How To Build A Girl Writer Caitlin Moran has been putting her sharp, caustic wit to good use for years now, be it in the broadsheets or on the TV. Her semi-biographical novel, How To Build A Girl is just another extension of her already impressive career. The film it is based …

Review: Radioactive (2020) – Severely Anaemic

Rosamund Pike in Radioactive To assume you can get to the core of a person in two hours is folly and while Marjane Satrapi's Radioactive never presumes to know completely Marie Curie, the woman standing in the middle of this befuddling and overstuffed biopic, it strives so much to make her an icon, a symbol …

Review: Inheritance (2020) – Buried Secrets

Lily Collins in Inheritance Secrets and lies are the cornerstone of any good thriller and Inheritance has a wealth of them hidden within the stone columns of the Monroe family mansion. Their secrets, are only compounded by the death of patriarch Archer (Patrick Warburton) and the possibility of his secrets spewing out and ruining the …

The First Day Back: My Cinema Experience

Last week I finally stepped foot inside a cinema for the first time since March. To say I was excited would be putting it mildly. It didn't go off as I expected, in fact if I had had the same experience before lockdown I would have said it was an unmitigated disaster but that was …