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A ★★★★½ review of Project Hail Mary (2026) Boooooy have I been waiting for this embargo to lift. I went into Project Hail Mary with a slightly weird mix of excitement and dread. If you’ve read the book you’ll know why. It’s one of those storie...

Project Hail Mary absolutely nailed it. Funny, nerdy sci-fi where the hero saves the world mostly by thinking really hard and panicking a bit. Gosling is great and somehow I’m now emotionally invested in an alien rock.

Long live Rocky.

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A ★★★★½ review of The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007) I cannot believe it took me this long to properly sit with this film. It’s been on the watchlist for years and I always assumed it would be one of those “important” westerns that I admire more than I ...

Finally watched The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford and I’m annoyed I waited so long. Slow, haunting, beautifully shot. Pitt is magnetic, Affleck is tragic and unsettling. A western about myth and envy.

Sick train robbery scene too.

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A ★★★ review of Send Help (2026) I’m pretty late to the party on this one, but never fear - Kermit is here!  Sam Raimi coming back with a survival movie sounded like a guaranteed chaos factory, and honestly Send Help is exactly that....

Send Help is a fun, messy Raimi comeback. Great setup, Rachel McAdams carries it, and the satire really works… until the gore kicks the door in and things get a bit silly. Still had a good time.

Could’ve been a better time, though 🤷🏿‍♂️

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A ★★★★★ review of Hamnet (2025) I don’t really know how to talk about Hamnet without talking about grief, and honestly I don’t think the film wants you to separate the two anyway. This isn’t a historical drama in the way people expe...

Hamnet absolutely floored me. A deeply personal film about grief and how loss quietly reshapes your entire life. Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal are incredible, and Chloé Zhao directs with such tenderness it almost hurts.

In fact it does. A lot.

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A ★★★½ review of Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die (2026) You can feel this film fighting for its life in real time and honestly I kind of loved that about it. Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die is messy, overlong, occasionally ridiculous, and completely burstin...

Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die is messy, overlong, occasionally insane… and I kind of loved it. Big chaotic sci fi with real anxiety about tech and AI bubbling underneath.

A flawed swing but a very human one.

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A ★★ review of Wuthering Heights (2026) I’m not a purist about adaptations. Change things. Reinterpret. Go wild. But this version of Wuthering Heights feels less like an adaptation and more like someone skim read the blurb, vibesed for a bi...

This Wuthering Heights looks lovely but completely misses the point. Turns one of the angriest, most feral novels ever written into a soft gothic romance that has absolutely nothing to say.

Such a fucking shame.

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A ★★★★★ review of Bugonia (2025) I ended Bugonia with that very specific Lanthimos feeling where you’re laughing, unsettled, slightly annoyed, and then two hours later it hits you like a brick and you go oh… fuck. Right. That’s what ...

Bugonia might be Yorgos Lanthimos’ best film. Funny, brutal, and deeply uncomfortable in the way only he can pull off. A satire about ideology and purity that lingers long after it ends.

The final 20 minutes are fucking perfection.

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Honestly even reading the review is a waste of time 😂 just pretend the project doesn’t exist!

A ½ review of Melania (2026) I have, for reasons I still don’t fully understand, spent my Sunday attending one of the very few UK cinema screenings of Melania so that you absolutely do not have to. Several seats were technically ...

I went to one of the only UK cinema screenings of Melania so you don’t have to. I was the only person there. Nearly two hours of empty PR nonsense. Lost brain cells.

Oh and as a side note, fuck both Trump and ICE.

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Horror Not Hate An anti-fascist, anti-hate anthology of horror comics and art supporting LGBTQIA+ and Immigrant rights!

If you guys want something cool to look at between hours of catching up on Oscar nominated movies, check out this cool as fuck horror comic - it’s in its final few hours on kickstarter and all the proceeds go to LGBTQIA+ and Immigrant Rights orgs!

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A ★★★★½ review of Train Dreams (2025) This is one of those films that sneaks up on you and then refuses to leave. I didn’t come out buzzing or pumped or desperate to talk about it immediately. I came out quiet. Properly quiet. Train Dream...

Train Dreams is devastating in the quietest way. A whole life passing by in fragments, routines, and loss. No big speeches, just time doing its thing.

Left me properly hushed.

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A ★★★★½ review of 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026) It’s genuinely mad that a fourth film in a franchise is this good, but here we are. Somehow this is the most alive, deranged, and confident entry in the whole 28 Days Later saga. I walked out buzzing....

28 Years Later: Bone Temple is somehow the best film in the franchise. Barely about zombies, all about people being feral. Ralph Fiennes headbanging to Iron Maiden and Jack O’Connell going full psycho.

Exhilarating stuff.

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A ★★★★★ review of Jurassic Park (1993) We’re going rapid fire with the reviews to kick off the year, and honestly there is no better place to start than Jurassic Park. I’ve seen this film more times than I can count and it still blows my m...

Rapid fire reviews to start the year and I had to begin with Jurassic Park. Still a technical miracle. Real weight, real texture, sweaty, dirty, terrifying, and the kids actually sell the fear.

Perfect filmmaking.

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A ★★ review of Stranger Things 5: The Finale (2025) When you have a large portion of your fan base theorising that you purposefully wrote a shit finale as a trick and the real finale is coming later, you know you’ve done something wrong.  I’ve sat with...

Stranger Things finale was exactly what I feared. Big spectacle, a few touching moments, but buried under endless endings and corporate sentimentality. Looked great, felt exhausting.

Such a damned shame.

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A ★★★★ review of The Wild Robot (2024) I did not expect The Wild Robot to hit me like that. I went in thinking “nice animated film, probably sweet, probably a bit sad” and instead I ended up properly emotional, like throat tight, eyes stin...

The Wild Robot absolutely broke me. Stunning, painterly animation, tiny acting choices in the movement, and a story about love and belonging that hits way harder than I expected.

I was not emotionally prepared.

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A ★★★★½ review of Marty Supreme (2025) This film is absolutely fucking unhinged in the best way. I walked out feeling like my brain had been put through a tumble dryer and then asked to immediately do a sprint. Josh Safdie has made somethi...

Marty Supreme is pure Safdie chaos. Two and a half hours of frantic energy, bad decisions, and Timothée Chalamet going fully feral. Exhausting, hilarious, oddly tender.

My brain is still vibrating.

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A ★★★★★ review of True Romance (1993) I finally watched True Romance and I’m honestly annoyed at myself for waiting this long. This is one of those films where you can feel the confidence radiating off every frame. It’s violent, romantic,...

Finally watched True Romance and yeah… it’s a masterpiece. Insanely romantic, wildly violent, stacked cast, and a script that absolutely sings.

Clarence and Alabama forever.

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A ★★★★★ review of Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006) I rewatched Dead Man’s Chest and it showed up on post Christmas TV and honestly I think we all owe this trilogy a massive apology. We absolutely took it for granted. Because this is blockbuster filmma...

Rewatched Dead Man’s Chest and I genuinely think we took the original Pirates trilogy for granted. Davy Jones is still one of the best CGI villains ever and that island sequence is pure adventure perfection.

We need to get back to this kind of film making 🤷🏿‍♂️

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A ★★★★½ review of Elf (2003) I watch Elf every year and every year I’m reminded that this film has absolutely no right to be as good as it is. On paper it’s one-note Christmas nonsense. In reality it’s one of the most sincere, fu...

Rewatched Elf and it’s still absolute Christmas perfection. Ferrell commits like his life depends on it and the film is weirdly sincere in a way most festive movies aren’t.

The best way to spread Christmas cheer is singing loud for all to hear!

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It depends on what you want from a movie. Plot wise they’re not super interesting if I’m honest, but if you’re a cinephile who wants to see cutting edge visuals and amazing cinematography - this is where to be right now!

A ★★★★ review of Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025) What are you looking for in an Avatar movie?  Genuinely ask yourself that. Have you come here for adept story telling, deep character studies, interwoven plot points and something that doesn’t feel… e...

What do you watch an Avatar movie for? If it the story? If so you’ll be disappointed. But if you want to see some of the most beautiful cutting edge digital film technology you’ve ever seen? This is a fucking spectacular piece of work.

Decide 🤷🏿‍♂️

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A ★★★★½ review of Wake Up Dead Man (2025) Every time Rian Johnson announces another Benoit Blanc mystery I have the same reaction. Mild eye roll, followed by immediate excitement, followed by pretending I wasn’t excited in the first place. An...

Wake Up Dead Man is my favourite Knives Out yet. Smart, funny, soulful, and surprisingly kind about faith while still skewering the nonsense. Daniel Craig is a joy again. This is a whodunit worth watching at least once.

Maybe twice.

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A ★★★★★ review of Fargo (1996) 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...

Finally watched Fargo after years of loving the TV show and holy shit the film is perfect. Frances McDormand is iconic, the script is immaculate, and the Coens were on another level.

Five fucking stars.

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A ★★★★ review of The Inevitable Defeat of Mister & Pete (2013) 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

Finally watched The Inevitable Defeat of Mister and Pete and I’m shocked I’d never even heard of it. Absolutely heartbreaking, brilliantly acted, and way better than half the stuff that gets hyped to death.

Also these two kids were incredible.

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A ★★★½ review of The Running Man (2025) 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...

Watched The Running Man and it’s a solid take. Some clunky dialogue and pacing issues but the cast absolutely carries it. Gritty, fun in places, a bit uneven, but I had a good time.

Also peep Glen Powell’s special Tom Cruise run. It’s a regen.

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A ★★★★ review of Frankenstein (2025) 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...

Hunted down a cinema screening of Frankenstein instead of watching it on Netflix because some films deserve a fucking big screen. Del Toro delivers a gorgeous, tragic gothic feast. Elordi and Isaac are unreal.

Find a screen if you can.

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A ★★★★½ review of Lincoln (2012) 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...

Finally watched Lincoln and I thought it’d be homework but it absolutely slapped. DDL is stupidly good, politics has never been this tense, and Tommy Lee Jones is my new hero.

A boring movie that’s somehow bloody enthralling. Who would have known 🤷🏿‍♂️

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A ★★★ review of A House of Dynamite (2025) 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...

Just watched A House of Dynamite. Tense as hell and painfully realistic. Rebecca Ferguson is the standout but weirdly underused. The ending gives you no real resolution which I respect even though it left me screaming at my TV.

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A ★★★ review of The Perfect Neighbor (2025) 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...

The Perfect Neighbor wrecked me. Heartbreaking, powerful, and hard to look away from. But honestly, I’m starting to feel uneasy about how many true crime docs are built on someone’s fresh grief.

Incredible doc, still left me feeling dirty.

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A ★★★★ review of The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021) 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...

Finally watched The Tragedy of Macbeth and I’m annoyed I waited this long. Denzel is phenomenal, McDormand is terrifyingly good, and it’s all so stark and beautiful it feels carved out of nightmares.

This is true Shakespeare.

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