Director: Danny Boyle Starring: Jodie Comer, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Alfie Williams, Ralph Fiennes, Jack O’Connell Running Time: 115 minutes There are few more defining images of popular cinema in the new millennium than that of Cillian Murphy’s Jim, freshly out of a month-long coma, wandering the vacant streets of a London ravaged by disaster as the…
Director: Jonathan Entwistle Starring: Jackie Chan, Ben Wang, Joshua Jackson, Sadie Stanley, Ming-Na Wen Running Time: 94 minutes I’ll be honest, I was skeptical when I heard that the Karate Kid franchise was getting yet another revival. At this stage, we all know the dance. There’s a certain exhaustion that creeps in every time a…
Director: Jake Scheier Starring: Florence Pugh, Sebastian Stan, David Harbour, Hannah John-Kamen, Olga Kurylenko, Wyatt Russell, Julia Louis-Dreyfus Running Time: 126 minutes Marvel’s latest team-up, Thunderbolts*, directed by Jake Scheier, is a bold and refreshing entry in the MCU. Departing from the typical superhero formula, the film assembles a team of anti-heroes- Yelena Belova (Florence…
Director: Lorcan Finnegan Starring: Nicolas Cage, Julian McMahon, Finn Little Running Time: 103 minutes ‘Cage Rage’ flicks have become a sub-genre of their own in recent years. The star’s manic, erratic line delivery coupled with some truly unhinged facial expressions have elevated middling films in the past, carved ‘Nic was here’ into the annals of…
Director: Aislinn Clarke Starring: Clare Monnelly, Bríd Ní Neachtain, Aleksandra Bystrzhitskaya Running Time: 103 minutes With Irish horror going through its Golden Age, the current trend for horror to be up front about its metaphors for trauma (of which our island has plenty), and an increased experience on screen in tapping into our rich resources…
Director: Gavin O’Connor Starring: Ben Affleck, Jon Bernthal, Cynthia Addai-Robinson, J.K. Simmons, Daniela Pineda, Robert Morgan Running Time: 124 minutes We have already seen a fair share of sequels produced for the movies of 2016. M. Night Shyamalan’s psychological horror Split was followed by Glass in 2019. Fantastic Beasts and Deadpool both launched financially successful…
Director: Ryan Coogler Starring: Michael B. Jordans, Hailee Steinfeld, Jack O’Connell, Delroy Lindo, Wummi Mosaku, Li Jun Li, Miles Caton Running Time: 137 minutes After a decade and change of the blockbuster film landscape being almost entirely lead by 30+ year old franchise Intellectual Property still reigning in its dozenth iteration, I began to wonder…
Director: Gints Zilbalodis Starring: Menagerie Running Time: 85 minutes With its stunning landscapes, thoughtful sound design and memorable characters it’s unsurprising that Flow has become the most viewed film in Latvian cinema history. Flow tells its story almost as a collection of vignettes, we follow a cat as he meanders through his life in a forest punctuated with statues…
Director: Mark Anthony Green Starring: Ayo Edebiri, John Malkovich, Juliette Lewis, Amber Midthunder, Murray Bartlett Running Time: 104 minutes The latest cinematic offering from A24, Opus, teeters between horror, satire and a bizarre love letter to the most eccentric corners of celebrity culture. It stars Ayo Edebiri (The Bear, Bottoms) as Ariel Ecton, a journalist…
Director: Bong Joon-Ho Starring: Robert Pattinson, Naomi Ackie, Steven Yeun, Toni Collette, Mark Ruffalo Running Time: 137 minutes After a troubled road to release, being ping ponged from month to month and year to year on the release calendar by WB, Bong Joon-Ho’s follow-up to his world-beating awards hit Parasite has fortuitously made its way…
