A Quiet Place: Day One takes us right back to the moments leading up to, during, and after, the alien invasion that devastated Earth and left it in the state we found it in when the first movie was released back in 2018. While that movie, along with its 2020 sequel, focused on the Abbott […]
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Demonic possession and exorcist films appear to be experiencing a revival of late, with last year’s The Pope’s Exorcist and sequel The Exorcist: Believer. The Exorcism is the latest film in the genre to hit our screens and with an unofficial link to the original Exorcist and Russell Crowe hot off the surprisingly successful The
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In the mid-1990s, awkward seventh grader Owen (Justice Smith) meets ninth-grader Maddy (Brigette Lundy-Paine) at an afterschool event. Maddy is reading a guide for the popular teen show The Pink Opaque. While Owen hasn’t seen the show, he’s intrigued by a commercial he saw on television. Maddy invites him over to watch an episode. The
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When a young actress finds herself dumped after living through a cancer diagnosis, her life falls apart. Until she meets her unexpected new housemate, the Monster hiding in the closet. Melissa Barrera finds herself at the centre of another comedy-horror, following her work in the newer Scream films and her lead role in this year’s
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My Old Ass recently came to London as part of this years Sundance London Festival. Starring Maisy Stella and Aubrey Plaza, we follow Stella’s Elliott on her final summer before college as she partakes in hallucinogenic mushrooms and forms an unlikely connection with her future self, played by Plaza. Stella is insanely charismatic on screen.
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Releasing this week, Will Smith and Martin Lawrence are back for the fourth instalment in the Bad Boys franchise. Directors Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah return to the action following 2020’s Bad Boys for Life, picking up the over-the-top, fast-flying stunts from the opening scene. As a first-time viewer of the franchise, I found
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From female screenwriter and director Coralie Fargeat comes The Substance, a body horror film that follows an aging celebrity (Demi Moore) who happens across a black market drug that will allow her to temporarily become a younger, better version of herself. Everything about The Substance is loud, from the bright primary colours of Elizabeth (Moore)’s
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Sting is the latest horror film to hit the cinemas, a creepy creature feature reminiscent of some of the 80s and 90s classics. While it doesn’t quite live up to those classics, it’s still a surprisingly fun and gory tale. The film opens in an apartment building in the middle of winter, with an old
Megalopolis exists. A film that renowned filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola has been trying to make for a rumoured 40 years, beset time and time again by delays and budgetary confinements, it finally got its world premiere at the recent 2024 Cannes Film Festival. Was it met with rounds of applause, a final victory lap for
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Anora is the latest film from Sean Baker, which stole the show at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival as an almost unanimous crowd pleasure and winner of the coveted Palme D’or. The film follows exotic dancer Ani, who meets Vanya, the son of a Russian oligarch and forms an unlikely connection and romance. Unfortunately, not
Unfrosted is Jerry Seinfeld’s feature film directorial debut, now showing on Netflix. This rather surreal story of the creation of Kellogg’s Pop-Tarts is possibly the strangest and most ridiculous film I’ll see this year, and not necessarily in a bad way. The film opens in the 1960s with Kellogg’s exec Bob Cabana (Jerry Seinfeld) in
Alex Garland’s Civil War takes place in a dystopian version of the United States, where the states of California and Texas band together against the corrupt government. This second civil war has put the entire nation in turmoil. As the fall of the capitol is evident, journalists Lee (Kirsten Dunst) and Joel (Wagner Moura) plan
It’s fair to say that I’ve been disappointed with a lot of big-screen releases so far this year. Big, impressive trailers that ramp up expectations, but fail to deliver when viewed in the cinema. So, to see an interesting trailer for a much smaller movie, only for it to exceed my expectations upon viewing and
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Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire is the latest ‘requel’ entry into the ghostbusting franchise, following on from 2021’s surprisingly successful Afterlife. And while this latest film certainly ticks all the right nostalgia boxes on paper, the end result is sadly lacklustre and unmemorable. The film picks up three years after the events of the last film, where
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Imaginary is the latest release from horror studio Blumhouse, it’s eighth in the space of a year. With hits like Insidious and Paranormal Activity under their belt, you’d be forgiven for expecting similar from anything Blumhouse releases. However like their most recent release Night Swim, Imaginary is about as dull and unimaginative as you can
Dune Part 2 is Denis Villeneuve’s second film in what looks to be an ongoing saga based on the Frank Herbert novels. After the spectacular first part, this follows in the same epic footsteps. However, it stumbles when straying from some of the original source material. The film picks up where the first left off,
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