Following on from his impressive ‘one take’ war film 1917, Sam Mendes is gearing up for his next feature film. Mendes is taking a step back from his more action-heavy films like 1917, Spectre and Skyfall with his upcoming picture, titled Empire of Light. It will be a love story about and around a beautiful old cinema on the South Coast […]Read More
Slasher films are nothing new. Time-loop films are nothing new. Hell, even slasher time-loop films are nothing new. But what is new is the latest film by director Natasha Kermani, Lucky. Lucky follows business writer May, who finds herself trapped in a cycle of constant violence as a masked figure attempts to kill her each and […]Read More
Surprisingly poignant and fairly effective, Greenland is one of Gerard Butler’s more successful action outings. George Bell reviews. Is Greenland the country where Gerard Butler collects his paychecks from the sheer number of bad films he had starred in? Turns out, much to my surprise, Greenland is his latest film and even more to my surprise, it isn’t actually […]Read More
Somewhat dated and dogged down by its better influences, Butchers fails to stand out in the modern horror renaissance, writes George Bell. The plot of Butchers is one that instantly intrigues. Not because of the concept itself, but rather how generic the concept is: it seems to present itself as some close relation to The Texas Chain […]Read More
Read George’s previous piece on ‘The Progression of Modern Television’ here. For the longest time, it has been the general consensus that movies are made to a higher quality than television. It seemed like one of life’s key truths, up there with the likes of “toasters make bad bath companions” and “don’t eat an orange […]Read More
Contagion director Steven Soderbergh is reuniting with the film’s screenwriter for a “philosophical” sequel to the original 2011 movie Contagion? That’ll never catch on Despite being nine years old, Contagion returned with a vengeance as one of the most discussed films of 2020. The reason behind the pandemic thriller spreading like a virus was, well […]Read More
Stemming the misery of 2020, if only for a moment, the Disney Investor Day was truly a day to behold, with truckloads upon truckloads of new content announced to look forward to in the coming years. But in the stream of new faces added to the MCU in shows like Moonknight and Ms Marvel, it […]Read More
After countless films have been delayed thanks to COVID-19, the arrival of a new one feels like a momentous occasion—even for standard ‘Netflick’ fare. So, I went into Ava with no expectations other than ‘woo new film!’. I should have just stuck with an old one. Ava follows Jessica Chastain as the titular assassin who, […]Read More
Despite winning an Oscar earlier this year, Joaquin Phoenix isn’t showing any signs of slowing down. The star of 2019’s Joker is rumoured to be in talks to star in the latest horror film from Hereditary and Midsommar director Ari Aster, titled Beau is Afraid. While Ari Aster does only have two feature films to […]Read More
Life has been hard enough at the moment, but it looks like Spike Lee is in the market for making it even harder with his latest project: a musical about everyone’s favourite impotence drug, Viagra. A stark change from Lee’s last film Da 5 Bloods, the musical is based on the David Kushner Esquire article All Rise: The […]Read More
Back at the start of 2019 (before the literal personification of hell that is 2020), if you told me that my favourite film of the year would come from a director I had never heard of and be centered around two lesbians in a forbidden romance, I would have politely said: “Jog on, Endgame comes […]Read More
In space, no one may be able to hear you scream, but you can certainly see some high-quality content. Adam Sandler is the latest star to break orbit with a new Netflix space drama. It’s finally happening. Sandler has been a pair of twins, a cowboy and an Oscar-snubbed actor, so the only next step […]Read More
When it comes to me and the Mad Max: Fury Road director, the similarities start and end with us both being called George. And I won’t lie, I’m happy with that. Fury Road was one of the best films of 2015 with its beautiful art style and high-octane action, making for a triumphant return to […]Read More
The star of hit shows like Grey’s Anatomy and Killing Eve, Sandra Oh, looks to have found her next project in Iris K. Shim’s upcoming supernatural horror film Umma. The film centres around Amanda (Oh) and her daughter who, while living a quiet life on an American farm, receive the remains of her estranged mother […]Read More
In July of last year, before all the horrors of 2020 were unleashed on the world, Amazon released a little show called The Boys. Extreme violence, dark humour, and a subversion of the superhero genre made the show an instant hit and one of the tentpole shows for Amazon Prime. Since its release, The Boys has had everyone […]Read More
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