Operation Mincemeat tells the strange but true story of an elaborate scheme that was formulated by British intelligence during the second world war in a bid to fool the Nazis into believing that they were invading Greece, and not their intended target of Sicily. It stars Colin Firth along with a host of well known […]
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Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore is the third film in the Fantastic Beasts prequel series, set in the wizarding world during a time before Harry Potter. The franchise is based very loosely on an educational textbook from the Harry Potter series and this third instalment plunges us into a complicated, pointless story that is
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Boiling Point is a one-shot culinary drama centring around the evening service in a busy restaurant in the run-up to Christmas. Now available and starring the ever-brilliant Stephen Graham, it brings a not often seen side of restaurants to the forefront and while this is definitely interesting with some great performances, it ultimately ended up
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Desperate for a cure for his unnamed blood disease, renowned biochemist Dr Michael Morbius (Jared Leto), captures vampire bats from a cave in Costa Rica in order to use their DNA for a cure. As a child, Morbius received treatment for his disease in Greece, where he met his surrogate father, Dr Emil Nicholas (Jared
The Lost City centres around successful romance novelist Loretta (Sandra Bullock). Still grieving the loss of her archaeologist husband, she forces herself to write one more book in her popular romance-adventure series using research that she and her husband completed together, and calls it The Lost City of D. After the release, Loretta agrees to
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In cinemas from April 1st and on digital from April 4th, Homebound is the feature film debut of writer/director Sebastian Godwin, a horror film that attempts to put an unsettling new spin on the familiar stepmother trope we’ve seen so many times before. Recently married couple Richard (Tom Goodman-Hill) and Holly (Aisling Loftus) are travelling
Based on Gege Akutami’s four-chapter prequel, Jujutsu Kaisen (JJK) 0 introduces a crucial character, Yuta Okkotsu, to the overall JJK story. Yuta is haunted by his childhood friend, Rika, who died after being hit by a car. Rika becomes a powerful, special grade curse that appears whenever Yuta is bullied and after four bullies are
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Produced by Sam Raimi and starring Sandra Oh, Umma (the Korean word for mother) is a horror movie that deals with generational trauma and mother-daughter relationships. After a run of watching some truly awful horror movies recently, I went into this one really hoping for a change in my luck… An ambiguous opening sequence leads
The Outfit tells the story of one night in a 1950s Chicago tailor shop owned by an expert tailor, Leonard (Mark Rylance). Leonard’s shop holds a mysterious dropbox filled throughout the day with envelopes and two young mobsters, Richie (Dylan O’Brien) and Francis (Johnny Flynn), collect the contents in the evenings. Envelopes appear with a
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Turning Red is the newest Pixar release now available to stream on Disney+. Moving away from their customary adventure, buddy style movie format, Turning Red is decisively a coming-of-age story, and one that Pixar has turned into a heart-warming, fun and adorably cute tale. The film follows Meilin Lee (Rosalie Chiang), a thirteen-year-old academic overachiever,
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It’s 1999. James (Harry Shum Jr.) is a video archivist, working the late-night shift in a Chicago basement where he is currently logging old TV shows. He lives alone, following the disappearance of his wife Hannah three years ago, and regularly attends a support group for people whose loved ones are missing. While at work
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Coming to Netflix on March 18th, Black Crab is a Swedish action thriller set in a post-apocalyptic world torn apart by war. Directed by Adam Berg and starring Noomi Rapace, it’s a great looking film with war elements that really manage to strike a chord, with everything that’s currently going on in the world. Caroline
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The Adam Project is the latest Netflix produced release, a mind-bending sci-fi with its new take on time travel. Despite reuniting director Shawn Levy and Ryan Reynolds following on from last year’s fun and entertaining Free Guy, I had fairly low expectations. But what could quite easily have been yet another lacklustre Netflix release instead
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The Batman is the latest incarnation of the Dark Knight, this time taken on by Cloverfield director Matt Reeves. Coming only a few years after Ben Affleck’s appearance as the caped crusader, The Batman sees Robert Pattinson take on a much darker, gothic version of the hero, to surprising success. The film opens in Gotham
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The Power of the Dog is the Oscar-nominated western from Jane Campion, based on the book by Thomas Savage. With a total of 12 Oscar nominations, including Best Actor and Best Motion Picture, expectations for this were incredibly high. And while there are a lot of aspects that are very good, the overall story seems
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Drive My Car expands upon Haruki Murakami’s short story, Men Without Women. The film follows the stage actor and director, Yusuke Kafuku (Hidetoshi Nishijima) following the sudden death of his wife, Oto (Reika Kirishima) and the film’s opening covers the last few months of their relationship. During this time, Kafuku rehearses for a stage production
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