The creator laments the failings of his creation when the sum of its parts falls short of the promises made by its individual constituents—a fate …
Frankenstein (2025): All the Right Dismembered Pieces, All the Wrong Moves
Film Reviews
Should Films Offer Solutions?: Eddington and its Tireless Warnings
Spoiler Warning: Read At Your Own Discretion Eddington (Ari Aster, 2025), potentially one of the most polarizing films of the year, offers a bleak, microscopic …
Caught Stealing (2025)
Hank (Austin Butler) is an avid baseball fan, who splits his days between a job at the local bar in New York, and Yvonne (Zoë …
Stop Looking Away: One Battle After Another (2025) Review
Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another stands out as an absolute blockbuster of resistance against hatred. It firmly opposes the current wave of franchise-dominated, …
Superman (2025)
In a conversation about James Gunn’s Superman, one could sit and talk plenty about pacing issues and under-rendered CGI all day – take down as …
Pavements (2024): On the World’s Most Important Band
Carys Manjdadria-Jenkins pins down Alex Ross Perry’s Pavements, a documentary/mockumentary/fictional concert film which stands out in the sea of musical biopics as a ‘semiotic experimental’ …
Witches (2024)
Carys Manjdadria-Jenkins reviews Witches– Elizabeth Sankey’s essayistic film examination of mothers, witches, and the ways we mishandle both. Women often come in threes. The high …
Nosferatu (2024) : Return of the Frightfully Familiar
Euan Toh takes stock of the Stoker narrative remake, weighing it up against past versions to see if this year’s take on the vampire can …
The Flesh of Language (2024)
Carys Manjdadria-Jenkins analyses the effect of Amanda Rice’s documentary on analogue media and animal extinction, The Flesh of Language. The body of analogue media and …
Don’t Read While You Eat
Sothysen Tuyor reconsiders Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975) fifty years after its release and three years after being voted …