Although based on the 2020 novel ‘Box Hill’ by Adam Mars-Jones, Harry Lighton’s Pillion is mostly unrecognisable from its source material, retaining only a few crucial details. Gone is the 1970s Surrey setting, along with the first-person narration and reckoning with queer identity at the height of the AIDS crisis. Kept are the names – Colin … Read more
Available on Digital on December 9, 2025 I wish Osgood Perkins would make a great movie. The dude seems to make a dozen horror movies a year, many of them worthwhile, but he has yet to make one that is start-to-finish great. Keeper, unfortunately, is the latest sign that the filmmaker has an eye for … Read more
Like her short La Bouche De Jean-Pierre (1996) and her features Innocence (2004), Evolution (2015) and Earwig (2021), Lucile Hadžihalilović’s latest, The Ice Tower, offers an unnerving, surreal take on a young person’s coming of age. It begins with a female voiceover narrating part of Hans Christian Andersen’s ‘The Snow Queen’, accompanied by a fragmented kaleidoscope of snow-globe … Read more
The vainglory of peacocking despots is captured with sardonic wit and homespun creativity in this clever re-staging of a crackpot coup attempted by the Italian poet, aviator and fascism early-adopter, Gabriele d’Annunzio. Croatian filmmaker Igor Bezinović establishes early on that this is a pocket of military history that not many people know of, including the residents of … Read more
The accusation of “all style, no substance” gets thrown around often, sometimes appropriately, but what about a film that has neither style nor substance, no matter how much it tries to sell that it has both? Wicked: For Good is that picture, one that probably wouldn’t exist if not for the hubris of everyone involved in its creation. … Read more
“I’m not afraid to die.” The refrain of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds’ ‘The Mercy Seat’ seems hardcoded into the DNA of Julia Ducournau’s third feature, which sees the Palme d’Or winner move away from the shock and awe body horror of Raw and Titane into something somehow sadder and stranger. That’s how 13-year-old … Read more
Despite only running between 2004 and 2007, To Catch a Predator had an indelible impact on popular culture. Fronted by the journalist Chris Hansen, the 44-minute episodes became must-see TV, as law enforcement set up sting operations around the US to lure sex offenders into the open using actual minors as decoys. The series was also … Read more
A teenage girl is afraid her parents are going to divorce because it’s all her fault because that’s why parents divorce (you should always let your children know that, of course) but finds hope when she and her annoying little brother discover a book about the Sandman–and his power to make dreams come true. Netflix’s … Read more
Now You See Me: Now You Don’t pulls the ultimate illusion: tricking me into hoping that this third entry would be better than the last two. Tedious and offensively stupid in a sleight-of-hand way that some audience members will be fooled by, Now You See Me 3 coasts thanks to another breezy adventure/heist plot and … Read more
When you have need to go into a hospital, most people in their right mind would expect one of two possible outcomes: firstly, you might walk out back out the door with some deeper clarity of your suspected ailments; or secondly, you might not come out at all, if circumstances are particularly grave. In Dolores Fonzi’s … Read more