How It Ends – Sundance Film Festival 2021 Review Rafaela Sales Ross February 2, 2021 Reviews Hours before a meteor is due to decimate all life on Earth, Liza (Zoe Lister-Jones) crosses a deserted LA alongside an unusual sidekick: a younger version of herself (Cailee Spaeny). With a farewell party...
Unicorn Store – Review Rachel Brook April 10, 2019 Reviews Brie Larson’s Unicorn Store seems to take place in a neighbouring universe to that of Boots Riley’s celebrated Sorry to Bother You. Though it has less of an anarchic agenda, Unicorn Store combines surreal...
Destroyer – Review Joni Blyth January 25, 2019 Reviews This review was originally published as part of our London Film Festival coverage on 16/10/2018. You can’t even look at a still of Destroyer without discussing the elephant in the room. Nicole Kidman blows...
Destroyer – LFF 2018 Review Joni Blyth October 16, 2018 Reviews You can’t even look at a still of Destroyer without discussing the elephant in the room. Nicole Kidman blows everything else out of the water – the confidence in her performance is astounding. While no...
What’s the Meta? How The Cabin in the Woods Subverted Horror James Andrews October 11, 2018 Features, Love Letter, Nostalgia Screenwriter extraordinaire Drew Goddard (Cloverfield, World War Z, The Martian) is back with his second feature as a director, Bad Times at the El Royale. His latest finds a group of strangers unravelling a...
The Darkest Minds – Review Naomi Soanes August 11, 2018 Reviews Clearly, there are a million and one other dystopian teen flicks that The Darkest Minds could be compared to – The Hunger Games, Divergent, even X-Men, to name but a few. But honestly, it feels unfair to...
Get Out – Review Rachel Brook March 11, 2017 Reviews Jordan Peele’s Get Out has quite accurately been described as a horror movie where the villain is racism. In this accomplished first feature, Peele intelligently intertwines historical contexts of racially...
Other People – Sundance London Review Rachel Brook June 1, 2016 Reviews The sole aspect of Other People that fails to convince is a group display of grief. However, through repetition this moment intelligently bookends the film and becomes symptomatic of the movie’s disparate...