Zombi Child
Bertrand Bonello's Zombi Child is the quintessential metaphorical representation of both eating too much than one can swallow, and starving itself to the point of death
Paradise Hills
Alice Waddington's directorial debut and feministic science-fiction mystery, Paradise Hills, is one covered in societal and gender politics wrapped around a plot that is something in the middle of Lost meets The Stepford Wives.
Black Christmas
A disappointing and lifeless entity that has a profound and engaging conversation on socially conscious feminism and rape culture but unfortunately underwhelms the film’s main attraction of spills and chills
Dr Stone (Dokutaa Sutoon) - Season 1
For what the first season presentation of itself, TMS Entertainment have managed to adapt Dr Stone into a beautiful and poignant show
Alien - 40th Anniversary
There are very few movies in cinematic history that can claim their significant position in all of the genres and style of filmmaking that it takes part in. Ridley Scott's 1979 seminal classic Alien is one of them
Animals
An enlightening, profoundly honest and wonderfully entertaining story about growing up in the intensity of expectation and gender politics with a heartwarming and dynamic twist
Watchmen - Episode 9: See How They Fly
HBO's revitalised and rebooted 2019 Watchmen series has finally come to a much-anticipated close in an underwhelming and flat dud of an evasive clima
Gone with the Wind - 80th Anniversary
Gone With The Wind is beautiful, melodious, heartbreaking and, all things considered, one of the best of all time. While simultaneously being a tone-deaf and racially poisonous
Everybody's Everything
Everybody's Everything does little to educate, engage or even discuss the trials and tribulations of Lil Peep
6 Underground
Bay is having a complete blast disregarding all human life, delivering bloody insanity and creating a spectacle of carnage filled to the brim with vulgarity
His Dark Materials - Episode 6: The Daemon-Cages
His Dark Materials has come into its own with the most action-heavy episode yet
Werewolf (Wilkolak)
Adrian Panek's Wilkołak — or known to Western audiences as Werewolf — is a dark, gruesome and compelling horror
Jumanji: The Next Level
What results is a serviceable and moderately entertaining blockbuster supplemented by hilarious performances and likeable characters that elevate a by-the-numbers adventure plot
The Disaster that is the Golden Globes Nominations
Jak-Luke Sharp has a few choice words on the recent Golden Globe nominations
Judy and Punch
Judy & Punch is a gruesome, haunting and unsettling narrative that surrounds the fabled tale of the infamous puppeteer show with rivetting —albeit traumatising — results
Marriage Story
It is not often that a film comes along that is so achingly authentic, so emotionally moving, so rich in character that it feels less like a film and more like a snapshot of reality
Parasite (Gisaengchung)
Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite is a brilliant and insightful commentary on class and modern family dynamics; it’s a modern masterpiece
Waves
Trey Edward Shults’s Waves does not know what kind of film it wants to be; in fact, it tries to be two movies in one but definitively fails
The Captain
Lau's film milks every second of the reported thirty-five-minute terrifying incident into a one-hundred-and-fifty-minute adventure film
Dark Waters
Dark Waters stars a doughy Mark Ruffalo as Bilott in a performance so uninspired that one can almost tangibly feel his disinterest in part