Reviews / 16.06.2025

There’s a moment in The Secret Agent when you realise you’re not watching a thriller in the traditional sense, even though all the surface elements suggest otherwise. You’ve got assassins on a mission, a man on the run, surveillance looming in every frame, and even a severed leg inside a shark. But as writer/director Kleber Mendonça Filho’s sinuous, sensuous, and increasingly surreal epic stretches past the two-hour mark and shifts from one narrative track to another with unhurried grace, what emerges isn’t a puzzle to be solved, or...

Reviews / 15.06.2025

We are still too close to the COVID-19 pandemic for most people to be nostalgic for it, let alone eager to relive the peculiar, surreal dread that accompanied it. And yet, with Eddington, director Ari Aster seems determined to trap his audience inside the worst of that era’s paranoia, partisanship, and posturing without offering anything that might justify the return trip. There’s a version of this film that could have worked. Sadly, it's not the film we're given. This may have been a politically sharp black comedy with real...

Reviews / 15.06.2025

Every now and then, a film creeps up and breaks you in ways you didn’t see coming. You think you’ve signed up for a sharp but sweet indie dramedy about grief and loneliness, then twenty minutes in, the rug gets pulled and you find yourself free-falling into a strange, sincere exploration of human connection, repressed desire and the complicated ways we seek out comfort. James Sweeney’s Twinless is exactly that kind of film. It’s deceptively simple at first glance, but there’s real emotional trickery hiding just beneath its...

Reviews / 14.06.2025

It is not often that a film this gently devastating, this funny and specific and alive, feels so completely like a singular vision. But that is what Eva Victor has accomplished with Sorry, Baby, a debut feature so confident and textured that it feels like the work of a seasoned auteur. Wielding the full force of her own talents as writer, director, and star, Victor crafts a portrait of trauma and healing that eschews sensationalism in favour of something far messier, more humane, and ultimately more affecting. Despite a...

Reviews / 09.06.2025

It was always going to be a risky flight. The 2010 animated gem How to Train Your Dragon remains one of DreamWorks’ most beloved films: visually stunning, emotionally rich, and powered by the indelible bond between a misfit Viking and a misunderstood dragon. It sparked a trilogy, multiple spinoffs, and a passionate fanbase that had every reason to be sceptical when a live-action remake was greenlit. And yet, here we are in 2025, with writer/director Dean DeBlois returning to reimagine his own material through a fresh, flesh-and-blood lens. The...

Reviews / 05.06.2025

There is something darkly beautiful about horror that commits to its metaphor so completely that it becomes absurd. Together, the debut feature film from Australian writer/director Michael Shanks, is nothing if not fully committed. What starts as a sharply observed domestic drama about a couple struggling with their future soon melts, drips, and mutates into a gnarly, inventive, and unexpectedly moving tale about toxic love, the follies of codependency, and the slippery definition of self when living in someone else’s orbit. In its best moments, it feels like a...

Featured, Reviews / 21.05.2025

For years now, Disney has been mining its own animated canon in search of live-action gold, and more often than not, the results have ranged from slick but soulless (The Lion King) to pointless and forgettable (Aladdin). So it’s fair to say that expectations are mixed going into Lilo & Stitch, Dean Fleischer Camp’s live-action take on the scrappy, beloved 2002 original. Would it be yet another unnecessary do-over of a film that didn’t need fixing? Or could the studio capture some of the chaotic spirit and emotional...

Reviews / 20.05.2025

Sometimes a movie knows exactly what it is, and Dangerous Animals is precisely that kind of film. From the moment it sinks its teeth into you, this sun-drenched, salt-streaked nightmare makes no apologies for what it’s serving up. It’s a lean, nasty survival thriller with a twisted sense of humour, a villain you’ll begrudgingly love to hate, and more blood in the water than a slaughterhouse drain. It’s also surprisingly stylish and frequently stomach-churning, a B-movie shocker wrapped in A24 gloss. Directed with panache by Sean Byrne, Dangerous Animals...

Reviews / 19.05.2025

If there’s one thing the Danny and Michael Philippou understand, it’s how to make discomfort crawl under your skin and stay there. With their 2022 debut Talk to Me, they turned grief and youthful recklessness into a supernatural punch to the gut. With their equally stellar sophomore effort, Bring Her Back, they take a more measured, colder approach. This time, the horrors are slower to announce themselves. The dread spreads gradually, thickening around you until it becomes hard to breathe. It's the kind of horror that trades the visceral...

Reviews / 19.05.2025

There’s a moment halfway through Wes Anderson's The Phoenician Scheme when Benicio del Toro’s Zsa-Zsa Korda turns to his estranged daughter and gravely declares, "This is the most important project of my lifetime." It's a line meant to underline the sweeping ambition of Korda's globe-spanning infrastructure scheme, but it also feels like Anderson speaking directly to us through his character. His latest film is a deeply stylised, impossibly dense, and at times deliberately opaque offering that aims for both grandeur and introspection. It's packed with ideas, stacked with stars,...

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