One To One: John & Yoko: John Lennon’s life after the Beatles April 29, 2025 Do we need another film about The Beatles? Hollywood certainly thinks so. Last week the castwas revealed for a four-film series of biopics on the band, directed by Sam Mendes andexpected in 2028. As speculation builds towards those dramatic endeavours, director Kevin MacDonald (The Last King Of Scotland) shines a light on the later years [...]
The Stimming Pool shines a light on the reality of autism April 7, 2025 Historically, Hollywood’s portrayal of Autism has done more harm than good. Until recent years, the idea many had of neurodivergent people would come from movies such as Rain Man and The Accountant, neither of which have been heralded for their accuracy. The Stimming Pool is an experimental mix of documentary and fiction that attempts to redress [...]
Robert De Niro sees double in gangland thriller The Alto Knights April 7, 2025 Robert De Niro stars opposite himself in The Alto Knights, a mafia drama based on a true story. It follows the power struggle between Frank Costello (De Niro), the kingpin of New York’s organised crime syndicate; and Vito Genovese (also De Niro), an embittered boss and childhood friend of Frank’s. When Vito orders a hit [...]
Novocaine is an action movie that doesn’t play by the rules April 7, 2025 It’s a trope of most action movies that the hero will take an extraordinary amount of punishment and still keep going. New comedy Novocaine has taken that one step further, imagining a lead who literally can’t feel the bad guys’ punches. The Boys star Jack Quaid plays Nathan Caine, a mild-mannered office worker born with [...]
Sebastian film review: steamy LGBTQ drama about sex work April 5, 2025 Sebastian film review and star rating: ★★★ Fact and fiction mesh steamily in this drama that offers a modern perspective on sex and ambition. Ruaridh Mollica plays Max, a young gay man and aspiring writer looking to make his breakthrough in the literary world. To research for his debut novel, he works as an escort [...]
Death of a Unicorn film review: don’t deep this A24 comedy-horror April 4, 2025 Ever since it premiered at SXSW last month, Death Of A Unicorn has been generating buzz. Produced by studio du jour A24, who brought us offbeat classics like Heretic and Everything Everywhere All At Once, it is an interesting prospect. But at a time when riskier stories have struggled to find an audience, is it [...]
Adolescence fans are discovering ‘unbearably tense’ Stephen Graham drama Boiling Point March 24, 2025 Adolescence, following one teenage boy’s relationship with women and incel culture, has taken the internet by storm, with millions of people tuning in to watch Stephen Graham’s incredible performance as the dad of a young boy accused of murder. But fans are pointing out that Adolescence isn’t the first time Stephen Graham has worked in [...]
New animated animal film Flow is worthy of the Oscars hype March 20, 2025 The biggest underdog story at this year’s Oscars was Flow, the independent Latvian animation that beat the might of Pixar, Aardman, and Dreamworks to take home Best Animated Feature. The film’s success saw a statue of the lead character, a black cat, built in Riga – but the film is a monument all on its [...]
Snow White review: Live action Disney is dated and out of touch March 20, 2025 After 15 years of churning through their back catalogue, Disney’s quest to make a live action version of every one of their hits has led them to the film that started it all. This new version of Snow White has been beset by controversy, but the headlines may be more entertaining than the film itself. Rachel [...]
This future of AI is examined in this exciting new movie March 20, 2025 Documentary The Thinking Game charts the rise of AI through the story of DeepMind, a leading AI lab founded by Demis Hassabis, an earnest but likeable tech genius who has devoted his life to “solving” the mystery of artificial general intelligence (AGI). Recruiting the best minds in the field, they seek to create systems that [...]
