EIFF 2023 – Silent Roar: Review
“Hellfire, sex, and youth” are the three words Louis McCartney and Ella Lily Hyland used to describe Silent Roar at its red-carpet premier at the Edinburgh International Film Festival. It’s…
Review: How to Blow Up a Pipeline
How to Blow up a Pipeline is a perfectly executed heist-style indie eco-thriller with a stacked ensemble cast and beautiful cinematography. The only place audiences could find discomfort is in…
Review: Enys Men
Released on BFI Player earlier this month, Mark Jenkin’s Enys Men follows the daily routine of a plant researcher (Mary Woodvine) on the remote Cornish island of the same name.…
Review: John Wick Chapter 4
In an era where American action films are overwhelmingly stale, the John Wick series has been a consistent breath of fresh air. Combining slick, initially realistic fight choreography with stylistic…
Review: Love Island’s Winners Can’t Salvage a Losing Season
Love Island’s ninth season concluded last week with Kai Fagan and Sanam Harrinanan taking home the £50,000 winning prize. Fagan, a science teacher from Manchester, and Harrinanan, a social worker…
Review: Scream VI
What is the Scream franchise without metacommentary on the state of the horror genre? Every film in the franchise has had something to say about the horror genre, whether that’s…
Review: Meet Me in the Bathroom
Meet Me in the Bathroom is a documentary on the whirlwind blink-and-you’ll -miss-it New York City rock scene circa y2k. In Will Lovelace and Dylan Southern’s adaptation of Lizzy Goodman’s…
Review: Cocaine Bear
It’s a popular saying that if you poke the bear, you’re guaranteed to get hurt. Especially if that bear is in a drug-fuelled rampage. I am, of course, talking about…