Review: The Northman
The collective eyes of the cinema-going public may be held aloft (quite rightly) watching Tom Cruise fly jets for real in Top Gun: Maverick but another, more caustic film has made its way onto VOD...
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TV review: Juvenile Justice
The South Korean series Juvenile Justice has become one of Netflix’s most popular non-English-language titles. It is an insightful legal drama that raises important ethical questions about the...
True Romance: Kamikaze Hearts
Juliet Bashore’s Kamikaze Hearts, originally released in 1986 and now set to screen in a new 2K restoration by the UCLA Film & Television Archive (May 13 in NYC at BAM and May 20 in LA at...
Review: Ambulance
No one should feel sorry for Michael Bay. Let’s get that straight from the off. His sledgehammer blockbusters have grossed close to 8 billion dollars so he should be set for a rainy day. His five...
April 2022 streaming round-up
Many years ago, during my BFI film journalism course, Nick James, the former editor of Sight & Sound told my class that it was impossible to watch every film released and the sooner we realised...
Peacemaker: daring DC fiction that laughs at itself
Peacemaker made his big screen debut in 2021, as one of the antiheroes in the film The Suicide Squad. Months later, the vigilante returns with his own web TV series, directed by James Gunn. This...
Review: Red Rocket
If God loves a trier then He must fucking worship Mikey ‘Saber’ Davies in Sean Baker’s latest movie Red Rocket. He’s a handsome, charming, reprehensible douchebag, a spray-and-pray asshole...
Steven Universe: the shining star of queer cartoons
Considering the technologically dominated age in which we live, it’s a given that kids will grow up with some form of digital media associated with their childhood. Most often, some television...
Commitment issues and other truths from Sex and the City
February is a good month to explore this topic, considering that it is Valentine's Day on Monday and much of our collective thinking is directed towards the celebration (or search) for love. We all...
Dopesick review: on human greed and corporate power
Dopesick is a blunt and heartbreaking series that reconstructs the worst opioid crisis in U.S. history. The eight-episode drama starring Michael Keaton, Peter Sarsgaard, Kaitlyn Dever, Rosario Dawson...