Most people don’t feel terror when it comes to walking. Even if they don’t particularly like walking or reaching 10,000 steps a day seems like a lot, they still don’t have nightmares over it. But in The Long Walk, Stephen King tries to turn this everyday activity into the stuff …
The news that the hottest recent ticket on Broadway – Stephen Sondheim and George Furth’s Merrily We Roll Along, directed by Maria Friedman and led by the powerhouse trio of Jonathan Groff, Daniel Radcliffe, and Lindsay Mendez from September 2023 to July 2024 – would be professionally filmed and released …
It seems that Train Dreams is so named because of how spectacular and innovative the technology of train travel was to the life at the centre of the film. It is set almost entirely in Idaho and western Washington state and shows a style of living that might as well …
We’ve traveled all around the world with Robert Langdon, uncovering history’s biggest secrets. Now Langdon is in Prague, uncovering one of life’s biggest secrets: love. That’s right, Robert Langdon is in love. But Dan Brown didn’t write a whole book about our favorite symbologist having a romantic interlude in Europe. …
The year was 2003, one of the most formative years of my life as someone trying to discover their own taste in movies. The Matrix Reloaded overwhelmed the cinema zeitgeist for months. Michael Bay arguably made one of his best action films, Bad Boys II, before throwing himself into the …
Some might say Lady, which had its world premiere at the London Film Festival, is Saltburn meets What We Do in the Shadows. That’s not correct, as it’s both those movies meets Florence Foster Jenkins. By which I mean, Lady is a faux-documentary about an utterly deluded and impossibly wealthy …
Horror films have been one of the most interesting genres to watch in 2025. While not a self-proclaimed horror fan myself, it is hard to deny how enjoyable they have been to watch this year. One of the best films of the year, 28 Years Later (the third film in …
Following its Sundance world premiere in early 2025, The Things You Kill, the third feature from Iranian filmmaker Alireza Khatami, is set to screen in Philippine theaters as part of the 2025 QCinema International Film Festival. Selected as the Canadian submission for the 2026 Oscar Best International Feature Film category, …
It’s so ordinary nowadays for crime stories to have an absolutely terrific setup leading to a whimper of an ending, so when one plays its cards as well as A Private Life does it should be praised from the rooftops. In the last twenty or so years Jodie Foster has …
This examination of privilege in the modern American moment tries to have its cake and eat it, and while there’s nothing necessarily wrong with that, the badly-titled Dreams botches the recipe. Considering that ballet is at the center of this movie and director Michel Franco (and his cinematographer Yves Cape) …
In the non-fiction medium, there is a fascinating sub-genre. In recent years, filmmakers have been documenting unconventional competitions. In both Girls State & Boys State, we follow a mock representative election by high school students who are aficionados of politics. In Pianoforte, the filmmakers narrate the International Chopin Piano Competition, …
Jalmari Helander’s blood-soaked Sisu was a true hidden gem. A Finnish answer John Wick or Rambo, the title is a fitting one: it comes from a Finnish concept with no exact English translation, yet roughly means a unique kind of resilience that allows one to overcome the most extreme of …
The greatest glory of Pillion is that its sexual boldness is in service to an important point about self-determination and personal desire. We can watch this for the action, the message, or both. Though don’t get your hopes up too high: not a great deal of ‘action’ is shown, although …
Selected as Italy’s official contender for best international feature film at the 2026 Oscars, Francesco Costabile’s sophomore feature Familia carries the thematic preoccupations of their directorial debut Una Femmina: The Code of Silence, a crime drama loosely based on Italian journalist Lirio Abbate’s investigative book, which wrestles with women victims …
Amir El-Masry is the lucky owner of one of the great faces in modern cinema, and he got to show it off not once but twice at this year’s London Film Festival. Unfortunately in neither case was it shown off to his best advantage. Giant managed somehow not to be …
Eternity feels like the type of movie made 60 or 70 years ago. Charming and romantic, this comedy-drama relies on the on-screen chemistry of its leading stars and whip-smart writing. Set in a version of the afterlife, Eternity explores who from your life you will be destined to spend your …
Amir El-Masry is the lucky owner of one of the great faces in modern cinema, and he got to show it off not once but twice at this year’s London Film Festival. Unfortunately in neither case was it shown off to his best advantage. The less said about 100 Nights …
There are only so many ways one can put up a facade, and yet every time Matthias (an unassumingly effective Albrecht Schuch) takes on a different life in different social scenarios, in front of total strangers, it’s as if all the pretense is infinite. Matthias has faked it so real …
Rosemead deals with one of life’s most significant challenges. What happens to our loved ones after we leave? Will they be in a safe position as we depart? The film focuses on a mother played by Lucy Liu, who sees the world that she knows coming to a close. But …
One of the benefits of all of us having professional-grade recording devices on our persons at all times is that we are able to document everything. One of the downsides to this is that it’s possible to cross-reference any even slightly true story with the real footage of the case. …