When “Severance” premiered almost three years ago, its willingness to marry the tedium of corporate culture with heady sci-fi felt novel. It took “Office Space” and filtered it through an almost Gilliam-esque view of the world. A story that literalized…
Jan 13, 2025
As the adage goes, justice is blind: by that, of course, they mean it's unbiased. In The Prosecutor, both starring and directed by modern martial arts legend Donnie Yen, Yen plays a prosecutor who finds justice blind in a different…
Jan 12, 2025
During a visit to Birmingham this week we happened to stumble across Merlins horror bar and felt compelled to bring you a review of this spooky and quirky cafe and bar in Birmingham City Centre. Merlins is a two-floored building…
Jan 12, 2025
We went down to Birmingham to experience the SandBoxVR Squid Game experience where you dress up in a full motion capture suit and are catapulted straight into experiencing your very own Squid Game in virtual reality. This futuristic venue is…
Jan 11, 2025
The Christmas season might've just ended, but the arrival of a beloved holiday movie on Netflix means we have the chance to extend the joy. Released just over 21 years ago in 2003, Richard Curtis' Love Actually has stood the…
Jan 11, 2025
This review was originally published on September 9, 2024, as a part of our Toronto International Film Festival coverage. In Hard Truths , Mike Leigh's beautifully humane drama, the writer-director takes us into the lives of an ordinary British Jamaican…
Jan 11, 2025
While not one of the most popular of the crime drama genre, the rookie police formula is one that's been explored to largely gripping success, the most iconic being the Denzel Washington-led Training Day. However, while Antoine Fuqua's 2001 hit…
Jan 11, 2025
The Damned has been made to a high standard. The film is extremely well-crafted; the cast, the period setting, and the eerie and isolated fishing village where the story plays out all help to create a tense and believable story…
Jan 10, 2025
These days, Sam Heughan is a fan-favorite presence on the small screen, but he wouldn't have garnered mainstream awareness if it hadn't been for his breakout role in the hit television adaptation of Diana Gabaldon's Outlander book series. Over the…
Jan 10, 2025
Welp, maybe the Den of Thieves movies aren't for me. Christian Gudegast's 2018 proof that he's seen Michael Mann's Heat has generated a cult following over the years I don't quite understand. That befuddlement continues with Den of Thieves 2:…
Jan 10, 2025