‘Host’ Review: Paranormal App-tivity (Sorry)
Stuck in lockdown, a group of bored friends decide to conduct a seance over zoom. But as the spiritualist internet connection cuts out and the...
Author: Paul Salt
‘Miss Juneteenth’ Review: Touching Story about a Mother’s Legacy
After winning the Miss Juneteenth beauty contest, Turqioise Jones (Nicole Beharie) has not achieved the success she had once dreamt of. Struggling to pay the...
‘Promising Young Woman’ Review: It Takes a Whole Village to Destroy a Woman
Cassie Thomas (Carrey Mulligan) likes to play drunker than she is in bars. She likes to pretend to be vulnerable and compromised so that when...
Critics vs Creators: Why Can’t We Be Friends?
Earlier this week, critic Jerry Saltz tweeted an Oscar Wilde quote that has pissed off a few thousand people. It reads: “A good critic always...
‘The Nest’ Review: The Sad Life of a Yuppie
Life is good for Rory (Jude Law). He has a good job in the United States where he shares a comfortable home with his wife,...
‘On the Rocks’ Review: Characterful but a Little Too Neat
Laura Keene (Rashida Jones) is married with children and although her husband Dean (Marlon Wayans) is away a lot she believes she is happy. However...
‘Mank’ Review: Citizen Kane’s Little Companion
Herman “Mank” Mankiewicz (Gary Oldman) is recruited by the 26 year old Orson Welles (Tom Burke) to write whatever script he feels like writing. He...
‘Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom’ Review: The Theft of Black Voices
Ma Rainey is a legend in the 1920s Black Soul community. The respect and excitement she inspires in the people around her have finally been...
‘Never Rarely Always Sometimes’ Review: Quiet, Devastating, Human
Autumn (Sidney Flanigan) is 17 and pregnant. We are presented with implications regarding who the father may be, and none of the options are good....
The Star Wars Sequel Trilogy: What shall be it’s legacy?
In the latest exhibition of small-minded childishness, a collection of people online are sharing around a petition to have the Star Wars Sequel trilogy de-canonised...