Anaconda (2025) arrives in cinemas this week, carrying with it the considerable baggage of its name. For many viewers, the title reminds them of the late-1990s creature feature – a film (not so fondly) remembered for its camp tone and dreadful narrative. Sony Pictures is hoping to revive this 30 year old franchise with a tonal 180 and instead embrace the absurd premise to make audiences laug...
Boy, that post title is a whopper. Anyway, the youngest cinema goers among us are in for a treat this boxing day. Paramount Pictures and Nickelodeon presents another SpongeBob movie, The Search for Squarepants. Though the visual and aural upgrade aren’t enough to save this sinking ship from a weak narrative structure and poor pacing. Directed by series veteran Derek Drymon (Hotel Transylvania: Tra...
Rental Family is the latest film by Japanese filmmaker Hikari (37 Seconds), a director known for blending tenderness with emotional depth. Here, she returns with a comedy-drama clearly designed to tug at the heartstrings – and for the most part, succeeds – all set against the picturesque backdrop of Japan. Rental Family is a heartwarming and sincerely crafted story that stands out larg...
Historically, Keanu Reeves fans can be split into two camps: well-read scifi fans whose brain chemistry was permanently altered by the first time they watched The Matrix, and thoughtful stoners who still haven’t lost the high of seeing themselves represented for the first time on the big screen in Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure. Good Fortune, the new divine body-swap comedy, written, dir...
Who hasn’t wondered if their CEO or anyone leading a major corporation is from another planet and trying to destroy us? Out of touch, unrelatable, speaking in foreign corporate lingo, and running companies that are doing more harm to humans than good – maybe it isn’t too much of a stretch that they are not really “one of us”. The idea has certainly consumed Teddy (Jesse Plemons). The struggling fa...
SKETCH is set in present-day America. The story is about the Wyatt family who live in a small town. It focusses on siblings Amber (Bianca Belle) and Jack (Kue Lawrence). She is ten-years-old and he is twelve. They are being raised by their widower father Taylor (Tony Hale). The family is living with the aftermath of losing their wife and mother. Her death has most clearly affected Amber, who was o...
In a cinematic landscape flooded with nostalgia-driven reboots, The Naked Gun (2025) is hoping to manage the rare feat of feeling both fresh and faithful to a multi-decade franchise. Keeping old fans happy while introducing a new audience isn’t something we’ve seen done particularly well over the past few years, but director Akiva Schaffer (Palm Springs) and crew are hoping to do just that. Having...
Rom-coms are back, and they’re better than ever. The once cliché-ridden genre, popular only with hopeless romantics and teenage girls, gets a much needed update with the release of A Nice Indian Boy. Roshan Sethi brings us the magical love-story between two young men, Naveen (Karan Soni) and Jay (Jonathan Groff) who come from oddly similar backgrounds, but with stark differences that they must ove...
I confess: Wes Anderson films have never really done it for me. His cinema feels more architectural than visceral—films that seem made by and for the art-world elite, keeping the viewer at arm’s length. There’s a “you can look, but you can’t touch” energy to them. Don’t get me wrong: I went to film school. I fell in love with cinematography. I understand and respect the cra...
The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie is the latest cinematic release from Warner Brothers, featuring the timeless Looney Tunes. With a legacy spanning nearly 100 years, and some of the most iconic cartoon characters in pop culture, WB is hoping for a film that delights both fans new and old. The plot centres around Porky Pig and Daffy Duck, when the two are thrust into a zany adventure ...
Marianne Jean-Baptiste (Fatman, The Sea Beast) effortlessly portrays a woman on the edge of an emotional breakdown. However, Mike Leigh’s Hard Truths being an easily relatable week in the life of tale only goes so far. Moments of insult comedy laced with zingers aside, the film comes off underwhelming. Leigh’s (Peterloo, Vera Drake) direction and Dick Pope’s (The Air Up There) ci...
The opening hour of Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy takes its sweet time—way too much of it, in fact. We meet Bridget several years after Bridget Jones’s Baby, where she and Mark had a son and got hitched. In Mad About the Boy, Bridget has become a widow and single parent to Billy and his younger sister, Mabel, after Mark died while on a humanitarian trip four years prior. This new reality ...
