“You keep dancin’ with the devil… one day he gon’ follow you home.”
(this is a non-spoiler review where I don’t directly discuss the twist/conceit of Sinners, in case people don’t know what it is - the first trailer was perfectly mysterious & the second sadly spoiled it for me)
Sinners is already a serious contender for my favourite film of 2025. Granted, it’s only April, but I think Sinners is so outstanding, so cinematic, so brutal, and so weighty from…
“I think I just stepped into a James Joyce novel.”
The above quote in Irish Wish is said by Lindsay Lohan’s character as she looks out at the Cliffs of Moher (which she repeatedly and wrongly pronounces as Moore), and despite the fact that Joyce’s works are nearly all about Dublin City.
Irish Wish is the worst thing to happen to my people since The Great Famine and British colonialism. Honestly, this might be worse.
Irish Wish is abysmal. It…
“I am the empress of the universe.”
Hmm. I’m a bit disappointed in Bête Noire, especially after the excellent Common People that kicked off this season of Black Mirror.
The vast majority of Bête Noire is really compelling. It’s an episode filled with intrigue, tension, and mystery, and I was dying to know what was the reason behind the insane level of gaslighting and reality bending occurring to the protagonist. However, I couldn’t help but worry even before the reveal…
“Somebody watches something, they’re touched, and then?”
No Other Land is essential viewing.
The ongoing genocide in Gaza has been at its most atrocious level in the past couple of days, with a mass Israeli blockade of aid reaching it’s third straight month and the possibility of widespread famine and childhood malnourishment becoming all the more likely. Even in the paltry aid dispensaries in south Gaza that are controlled by Israel, at least 27 Palestinians were shot dead by the…
“That was longer than a heartbeat.”
The scariest part of 28 Days Later is the English accent emitting from Brendan Gleeson’s mouth.
28 Years Later releases this month, and I’ve been eagerly anticipating it since that incredible, all-timer trailer was unveiled with “Boots” by Rudyard Kipling in the background. However… I had never seen 28 Days Later, nor the sequel 28 Weeks Later. I had put it off this long due to the fact that I couldn’t find a decent…
“Looks like a croissant dipped in shit!”
Mickey 17 is around 17 different films shoved in one - it’s a science fiction dystopia that ponders the meaning of life and death, it’s a trademark Bong Joon-ho critique of insidious capitalism and the commodification of life itself, it’s an absurdist satire-comedy, it’s a ionate tale of animal nativism versus human colonialism, and so much more. Mickey 17 doesn’t quite come together in all ways, but I do think its quirkiness, its…
