STRANGER EYES: Who’s Watching Who?
STRANGER EYES: Who’s Watching Who?

Despite tackling intriguing and timely concepts, Stranger Eyes ends up being a surprisingly dull watch.

Nowhere Special review
NOWHERE SPECIAL: Sad Window Cleaner Faces Down Death

The British will literally eat beans on toast for breakfast and then go to work…

HollyShorts 2025: Little Bird & The Stand: Two Powerful Shorts
HollyShorts 2025: Little Bird & The Stand: Two Powerful Shorts

In The Stand and Little Bird, our leads hustle and fight to get by in a country that seems to stack the odds ever-increasingly against them.

"Superman" (2025) - source: Warner Bros.
SUPERMAN: Maybe the Most Progressive Hollywood Blockbuster of the 21st Century

Superman is possibly the most left-leaning blockbuster Hollywood has produced in the last 20 years.…

WEAPONS: A Darkly Funny, Bizarrely Entertaining Horror Film
WEAPONS: A Darkly Funny, Bizarrely Entertaining Horror Film

Weapons is many things: an entertaining genre film that is both funny and horrifying, an acting showcase for its talented cast.

NO SLEEP TILL: The Cone of Uncertainty
NO SLEEP TILL: The Cone of Uncertainty

No Sleep Till is a moody tone poem to that singularly paradoxical sense of anticipation and malaise that sends house cats into hiding.

TAXI ZUM KLO: A Refreshingly Candid Gay Feature About Living Two Lives
TAXI ZUM KLO: A Refreshingly Candid Gay Feature About Living Two Lives

Taxi Zum Klo is a unique and proud feature that dares its audience to consider homosexuality and sexuality in general as natural to being human.

HARVEST: A Folkloric Drama Filled With Ambiguities

Tsangari seems satisfied to keep Harvest as a teaser, a tragedy of a place with no name and leaving it nameless and without doctrine.

DROWNING DRY: A (Maybe Too) Understated Tragedy Drama

Drowning Dry is a movie that is waiting to burst with its emotional weight but finds itself wafting.

THE FANTASTIC FOUR: FIRST STEPS: A Fantastic First Step for Marvel’s First Family

A wonderful addition to the MCU and the superhero canon, The Fantastic Four: First Steps is a breath of fresh air in the genre.

In TOGETHER, Comedy is Horror’s Better Half

Together’s greatest strengths lie in its wry reflections on the pleasures and perils of long-term romance.

SOULEYMANE’S STORY: Paris Through the Eyes of the Undocumented
SOULEYMANE’S STORY: Paris Through the Eyes of the Undocumented

Souleymane’s Story is an urgent, energetic drama that follows a Guinean immigrant through the streets of Paris.

BRAZIL: Revisiting Terry Gilliam’s Retro-Futurist Masterpiece
BRAZIL: Revisiting Terry Gilliam’s Retro-Futurist Masterpiece

Gilliam’s preferred ending to Brazil is bleak and bitter, yet because of that, it feels all the more realistic.

TITAMI: Fierce and Refusing to Flinch
TATAMI: Fierce and Refusing to Flinch

In a world that constantly asks women (especially women under authoritarian regimes) to stay silent, Tatami dares to scream. And, it speaks volumes. 

IL DONO: Michelangelo Frammartino’s Memento Mori

A poetic depiction of how the passage of time has affected a place so close to Frammartino’s heart, Il Dono is a film to lose yourself in.