‘Victoria’, And The Performance Of The Party
A night out has, to me, always felt like putting on a show. Like a theatre performer, you add layers of lotions, colours and kohl before stepping out into the…
Category: Thriller
‘Thoroughbreds’ Review: A Clinically Cool, Blackly Comic Thriller | 4*
Feelings, or rather the lack of them, are at the heart of Cory Finley’s Thoroughbreds. Set in a luxurious but lifeless suburb, this clinically cool, blackly comic thriller chronicles a…
‘YOU’, Male Entitlement & Our Rom-Com Expectations
***This post contains spoilers for Netflix‘s new series ‘YOU’. You have been warned!*** Joe (Penn Badgley) is a seemingly straight-edged ‘nice guy’ who manages a bookstore in New York city….
A Quiet Place | Film Review | 4*
It’s Day 89 of we’re-not-sure-what, and the Abbott family are out shopping for supplies. Barefoot, they creep across a shop floor. We don’t know how it happened, we don’t know…
Unsane | Film Review | 4*
Making a good impression working at a bank after moving 400 miles across the US, Sawyer Valentini (Claire Foy) is a smart but somewhat unapproachable woman trying to move on…
Good Time | Film Review | 4*
After a bank robbery goes wrong and his mentally handicapped brother Nick (Benny Safdie) is caught and imprisoned, Connie Nikas (Robert Pattinson) has a hellish night doing everything he can…
The Love Witch | Film Review | 3*
Written and directed by Anna Biller, The Love Witch is a technicolor trip back to the cinema of the 1960s. It stars Samantha Robinson as Elaine, a love witch with…
Brawl in Cell Block 99 | Film Review | 3*
After he loses his job and almost his marriage, Bradley Thomas (played a bald, tattooed and unnervingly serious Vince Vaughn) turns to drug running to provide a better life for…
A Film Writer’s Education: ‘Silence Of The Lambs’ | 5*
A Film Writer’s Education is a feature where our editor Sophie gets her act together, and watches all of those classic films that you’re supposed to have seen if you…
Green Room | Film Review | 3*
Green Room, directed by Jeremy Saulnier, is the story of a punk band on the road. Broke and looking for a gig to keep them going after someone lets them…
Gone Girl | Film Review | 3*
Gone Girl is the adaptation of the thrilling and bestselling novel of the same name from writer Gillian Flynn, who also compiled the screenplay. Starring Ben Affleck and Rosamund Pike,…
Money Monster | Film Review | 2*
Released in 2016 and directed by Jodie Foster, Money Monster tells the story of how an unbearable host of a financial TV show and his crew are taken hostage by…
Victoria | Film Review | 5*
Victoria caused quite the stir when it was released; following in the footsteps of Birdman, but taking the idea to a whole new level, this German masterpiece tells the story…
The Purge: Election Year | Film Review | 3*
As we enter election year, and the third film in the Purge trilogy, the annual purge is now a well established part of American life – so much so, that…