Lanterns: A story of becoming more than what we are conditioned to be

Lanterns reaches great heights with its deep personal journey for both its main leads and core themes, but the grounded approach to the storytelling and presentation prevents it from truly soaring.
7 October 2026

The Amazing Digital Circus: A tribute to existential defiance within an absurdist world

To enter the world of The Amazing Digital Circus is to witness a collision between the hyper-saturated joy of a neon-soaked digital whimsy and the paralysing dread of navigating through the utter bleakness of existence.
3 October 2026

Why do modern films look artificial?

Why modern digital movies look so sterile and fake.
29 September 2026

The Grand Tour enters a promising new era

The Grand Tour's new era proves surprisingly great.
28 September 2026

Grief and loss in Grave of the Fireflies

Grief, loss, and war in Grave of the Fireflies.
21 September 2026

After five seasons of panic attacks, The Bear ends

The Bear was never really about food or restaurants.
16 September 2026

Unlikeable and unforgivable: Let’s give our women some grace

Society’s expectation that women endure everything and still remain pleasant can be suffocating.
9 September 2026

The Wonderfools: Messy at first, but surprisingly worth the ride

The Wonderfools delivers a charming, emotional superhero comedy.
11 August 2026

Nolan’s reframing of The Odyssey

Nolan turns Homer's epic into an anti-war film.
6 August 2026

Backrooms is a liminal nightmare, until it isn’t

Liminal spaces become truly scary is when it forces you to face a physical manifestation of something you’re facing about yourself.
2 August 2026

Spider-Man: Brand New Day: A timeless hero’s confrontation with isolation

Spider-Man: Brand New Day goes beyond the superhero spectacle to teach us important lessons through Peter Parker
1 August 2026

Reality Awaits: The Strokes return, vocoder first

The elephant in the room is the autotune, smeared across one of the most recognisable voices in music.
27 July 2026

Unwanted Revenge: Breaking the fantasy of retribution

Unwanted Revenge: Not the Usual Happy deconstructs the fantasy that violence restores balance.
20 July 2026

The problem with how we write women

What gets lost in all of this is the idea of women who aren’t symbols of anything at all.
17 July 2026

Obsession and the horror of a stolen self

A review of Curry Barker's breakout film.
7 July 2026

Pokémon Champions: The new home of competitive Pokémon

Pokémon Champions lands on mobile and Nintendo Switch.
30 June 2026

Making smartphones cinematic: The Park Chan-wook Way

How Park Chan-wook makes smartphones cinematic.
30 June 2026

Supergirl: Uncovering a different side of hope through shared grief

While Supergirl is not a groundbreaking movie, it is still quite enjoyable and a solid entry in the DCU.
29 June 2026
25 June 2026

Witchwave: The sound of digital dissociation

“Witchwave” is less a fixed genre and more an umbrella term that dissolves into adjacent microgenres—witch house, dark wave, dream pop, and other fragments of electronic sounds.
22 June 2026