Opinion, Reviews / 13.01.2025

It's time for The Jam Report's annual look back at the best in cinema for the year. As is tradition, here are ten films that just missed out on my top ten but are still absolutely worthy of adoration. 20. Civil War 19. Nickel Boys 18. No Other Land 17. I'm Still Here 16. Better Man 15. The Seed of the Sacred Fig 14. Sing Sing 13. Hard Truths 12. Longlegs 11. All We Imagine as Light And now, without further ado, presenting The Jam Report's top ten films of 2024. 10. Challengers (full review) “You have a better shot with a...

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Featured, Reviews / 01.01.2025

There’s a certain wonder that comes with the Paddington films. In an era where reboots, sequels, and franchises often feel more like obligations than expressions of creative spirit, Paddington and Paddington 2 stand apart. It's no exaggeration to call them two of the best family films of recent times and that ultra-rare example where the sequel is actually better than its predecessor. Daring to craft a third film is a monumental task. In Paddington in Peru, the beloved titular bear is embarking on a new chapter, leaving the familiar...

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Featured, Reviews / 31.12.2024

Let's be honest; horror reimaginings rarely succeed. For every brilliant example like Dawn of the Dead, The Ring or It, you have genuine train wrecks like A Nightmare on Elm Street, Psycho, and The Wolfman. Thankfully, the man to take on delivering a new vision of F.W. Murnau’s iconic 1922 silent film, Nosferatu is Robert Eggers; a filmmaker known for his audacious exploration of the darker corners of human experience. The result is a beautiful, grotesque, and chilling cinematic nightmare that descends into terror and obsession. Eggers’ signature blend of...

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Featured, Reviews / 26.12.2024

When the internet rightfully sneered at the first trailer for Sonic the Hedgehog back in 2019, few could have predicted this would become a franchise that's earned over $700 million at the worldwide box office. But this is a franchise that actually listened to its fans; a genuine rarity in Hollywood. It's also a saga that's only gotten better with each film; an even bigger rarity in cinema. That proves to be even truer in Sonic the Hedgehog 3 aka the best Sonic movie to date. Sustaining the charm and...

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Reviews / 27.11.2024

For a studio so often criticised for its reliance on rehashing the past, it's rather wild to consider Disney has only released four animated sequels in its almost 90 years of existence. Sure, there was that period in the 90s and early 00s when every successful animated feature received a subpar straight-to-video follow-up. However, in terms of theatrically released animated films, we've only had The Rescuers Down Under, Fantasia 2000, Ralph Breaks the Internet, and Frozen II. It's also crazy to remember a follow-up to the 2016 smash hit Moana wasn't even...

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Featured, Reviews / 20.11.2024

It's no exaggeration to call Wicked one of the biggest movie musical events in recent history. Using the term "highly anticipated" to describe this film barely captures the fever pitch of excitement surrounding its release. After 20 years on the Broadway stage, getting a film adaptation off the ground has been a monumental effort. This is a much-delayed film production that's essentially been "in development" for more than a decade (at one stage, it was announced as coming in December 2019). But that's all in the past now....

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Reviews / 12.11.2024

Way back in the year 2000, Ridley Scott’s Gladiator redefined historical epics, bringing a raw intensity that reinvigorated the genre and waltzed away with five Oscars including Best Picture. Since that time, the idea of a sequel has been kicking around including one bizarre script written by Nick Cave of all people involving Maximus being resurrected from purgatory and tasked with killing Jesus to end Christianity. Yes, you read that correctly. Two decades later, Scott is finally back with a tremendously entertaining sequel that valiantly and mostly successfully recaptures...

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Reviews / 14.09.2024

There are passion projects and then there's something like Francis Ford Coppola's Megalopolis; a film the Oscar-winning director has been attempting to get off the ground since its conception way back in 1977 that's only now finally a reality after an investment of $120 million of Coppola's own money. Hats off to the legendary filmmaker for taking such a huge risk, but was it really worth it? At the age of 85, Megalopolis could very well be his final film. With a big swing of the bat for his swan song,...

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Featured, Reviews / 04.09.2024

After more than three decades of watching countless films every year, it takes quite a lot to shock and surprise this film critic. Then again, it's not every day something comes along like The Substance; Coralie Fargeat's disgustingly twisted, pointedly satirical, sickly comedic, and staggeringly entertaining body-horror that will either leave you fleeing for the exit or applauding with sheer joy. I was in the latter category. A biting indictment of Hollywood's obsession with youth and the way it discards women of a certain age, Fargeat clearly has a...

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Reviews / 20.08.2024

There is always trepidation when an actor transitions into the director's chair. That apprehension only rises when that actor is also responsible for co-writing the screenplay. With the tense, disturbing, darkly funny, and twist-filled nail-biter Blink Twice, Zoë Kravitz deftly proves she's both a writer and director worth watching and one with a sharp vision and something pertinent to say. Shrewdly influenced by Jordan Peele's Get Out, the #MeToo movement, and the horrors of what went down on Jeffrey Epstein's island, Kravitz delivers an unnerving psychological thriller that will keep...

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