I cannot believe I managed to love the Fargo TV show for years without ever actually sitting down to watch the bloody film. Absolute clown behaviour on my part. Because this thing is perfect. Like gen...

I have no idea how this film completely passed me by. I’d never even heard of it until recently which is ridiculous because it’s exactly the sort of thing I gravitate toward. Small, character driven, emotional as hell, carried by ridiculously good performances from kids who act circles around most adults. I put it on expecting something decent and ended up glued to the screen for the whole thing. It follows two boys, Mister and Pete, basically trying to survive the summer on their own after Mister’s mum is arrested. And when I say survive, I mean genuinely survive. No

Well, time for the 2nd king/bachman tv game show film of the year! I went into this fully expecting another half-baked remake with too much CGI and not enough charm, but honestly it’s a decent time. N...

Could I have just watched this on Netflix? Absolutely. Did I instead hunt down a screening because a film like this deserves to be seen properly, on a massive screen, with a room full of strangers all...

I finally sat down to watch Lincoln properly and honestly I’m kicking myself for not doing it sooner. It’s one of those films I always assumed would be a bit homework-y, like “eat your vegetables, lea...

This feels like it could’ve been better than it is. Kathryn Bigelow a really tight film: the ticking-clock of an inbound nuclear missile aimed at Chicago unfolds through three overlapping perspectives...

The Perfect Neighbor pulled me right in. After watching I felt crushed by the end of this. Then I felt sick. I genuinely don’t know how I feel about watching such moments of familial grief play out on...

I finally got around to watching The Tragedy of Macbeth, and honestly, I’m kicking myself for not seeing it sooner. Denzel Washington doing Shakespeare under Joel Coen’s direction should’ve been an im...

After Weapons absolutely fried my brain in the best way possible, I needed to see what else Zach Cregger had done. So I finally sat down to watch Barbarian for the first time, and holy shit, what a ri...

I can’t believe it’s taken me this fucking long to watch In Bruges. It’s been sitting on my Letterboxd watchlist for ages, mocking me every time I scrolled past it. Finally watched it tonight, and hon...

Every once in a while a film comes along that feels completely unhinged and yet totally alive, and One Battle After Another is that film. Paul Thomas Anderson could have played it safe but instead he’...

Spoilers ahead. I don’t usually review documentaries. I’m a fiction film guy. But holy shit this one was too wild to ignore. Imagine getting 40 texts a day threatening you, humiliating you, ruining yo...

Watching Weapons a second time on demand only made me love it more. The first time around I was overwhelmed by the shifting perspectives and the sheer weight of it all. This time I could sit with it, ...

I’ve loved Stephen King since I was a teenager and The Long Walk has always been one of the books that stuck with me most. It isn’t about ghosts or clowns or monsters in the dark. It’s about kids walk...

Every time I watch Dune: Part Two it feels like standing at the edge of something monumental. This isn’t just a great sci-fi sequel, it’s one of those rare films where craft, story, and performance al...

I went into The Roses expecting a cheeky rehash of The War of the Roses. What I got instead was darker, sharper, and more emotionally precise than most “dark comedies” dare to be today. Beneath the ve...

Here we go again. Another Jurassic movie, another excuse to put people in the jungle and watch them run away from things with sharp teeth. And yet, against all odds, this one kind of works. Rebirth is...

I should preface this by saying not only have I read the short story this is based on, but I’ve also read and loved nearly everything King has ever written. The life of chuck is a stand out in how dif...

There are horror films that rely on blood and shock, then there are the ones that burrow under your skin because they hold up a mirror to something painfully real. Speak No Evil is very much the latte...

I went into Weapons with zero expectations. I’d seen trailers, but upon clicking that there was a mystery element involved I purposefully pulled back. Thirty seconds in I realised this was going to be...

I cannot believe I’m saying this but The Naked Gun reboot absolutely fucks. Like properly. I went in expecting cheap nostalgia bait and walked out wheezing like I’d been hit in the chest with a custar...

I don’t like ragging on movies. I really don’t. Even bad ones usually have something redeeming going on. Some glimmer of vision or effort or at least a cool explosion. But War of the Worlds (yes, anot...

Bleak, cold, violent. This isn’t your dad’s dusty saloon Western. The Thicket throws you into a frostbitten wilderness where morality’s as murky as the swamp water, and if you’re not bleeding or freez...

Look. I love this story. It’s one of the best things DreamWorks has ever done, and the original animated film still absolutely slaps. So when I say that I got swept up in this live action remake, it’s...

Alright. I wasn’t exactly foaming at the mouth for another Fantastic Four reboot. Marvel’s been handing these poor bastards the cinematic equivalent of a cursed object for years. But holy shit, they a...