Sundance London 2021 ‘Zola’ Review: Viral Twitter becomes Thrilling Cinema
In 148 tweets, Aziah “Zola” King recounted a shocking story of a stripper’s road trip gone bizarrely and dangerously wrong. Janicza Bravo now realises this...
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‘Old’ Review: Shyamalan Horror Plays into Some of His Best Weaknesses
A holidaying family find themselves stuck on a beach that they find themselves unable to leave. Trapped with another family, a couple, a cagey man,...
Sundance London 2021 ‘The Sparks Brothers’ Review: The Artistic Importance of Failure
Filmmaker Edgar Wright chronicles roughly fifty years of work from the brothers Ron and Russell Mael, the co-founders and only constant members of band Sparks....
Sundance London 2021 “The Blazing World” Review: Visually Striking, but Fundamentally Lacking Horror-Fantasy
Sharing a name (and not too much else) with Margaret Cavendish’s bold and imaginative 17th century work, The Blazing World sees Director, co-writer and star Carlson Young...
‘Black Widow’ Review: Marvel’s Espionage Thriller Doesn’t Pull Any Punches (except in its action)
Shortly after becoming a fugitive from global authorities, Natasha “Black Widow” Romanov (Scarlet Johanson) is contacted by her long lost “sister” Yelena (Florence Pugh). Holding...
AI: Artificial Intelligence Turns 20 and is Speilberg’s Darkest Film
Spielberg has never been afraid of the dark. Indeed his films often, unusually, use light as source of terror. Think of the alien presence that...
‘In the Heights’ Review: The Movie This Summer Needed
The return to cinemas has been fraught and not entirely satisfying. I am someone who absolutely adores the big screen, and can’t help but feel...
‘Final Days (Alone)’ Review: The Covid-Era Zombie Siege
Aiden (Tylor Posey) is trapped in his apartment due to a terrible pandemic. This very relatable concept is made more dramatic with the inclusion of...
‘Spiral: From the Book of Saw’ Review: New Blood or Dead Meat?
The grisly murder of a police officer recalls the heinous crimes of The Jigsaw Killer. Detective Ezekiel Banks (Chris Rock) is tasked with finding the...
‘Army of the Dead’ Review: Has Snyder rediscovered his sense of fun?
In this startlingly original tale a dirty dozen/suicide squad are assembled to infiltrate a walled off American city (think Escape from New York) to retrieve...