Happiness (Baqyt) is an ironically fitting title for director Askar Uzabayev’s film. The drama is a brutally realistic tale about domestic violence against women in Kazakhstan households. In his fifth feature, the filmmaker has gone to lengths to portray the reality…
Read moreTV shows that offer viewers exploratory passages through the lives of the rich and powerful are nothing new. We buy our tickets for their scandalous secrets, display of extravagance, dirty politics, and the family drama of it all. Prime Video’s…
Read moreHalloween Ends is a decent but inconsistent final entry in David Gordon Green's H40 trilogy - inferior to Halloween (in every single way) but much better (in most ways) than Halloween Kills. 44 years after the original Halloween debuted in…
Read moreThere are not many things in this world that surprise me. Working in horror specifically I had an impression that I’d seen it all. Well, that was until I took a trip to Viktor Wynd’s Museum of Curiosities which is…
Read moreIt’s been 80 years since Casablanca was first released. One could argue that that’s a milestone moment for cinema in general. After all, few movies have been more treasured over generations, with such a legendary, almost mystical status. So reviewing…
Read moreA wayward and callous Ramy (Ramy Youssef), after cheating on his new wife, Zainab (MaameYaa Boafo), with his cousin; thereby inflicting untold damage on everyone in his wake, sits in a car with a dog of an incarcerated friend in…
Read moreI enjoy a documentary that dares to challenge conventional wisdom. Fat Fiction questions the facts surrounding the low-fat, low-cholesterol diet. To Which We Belong asserts that we’re fighting climate change on the wrong front, and we should be focusing our attention on the…
Read moreThere are some movies that, like it or not, end up becoming those pop culture gaps in an otherwise slowly growing knowledge base, those titles that you either never got around to watching for some unknown reason or because you…
Read moreHome Movie Reviews Stars At Noon Review: A Languid Romantic Thriller Saved By Strong Performances Struck by pacing issues & a lack of chemistry between its leads, Stars at Noon is saved by Qualley & Alwyn's performances & a lush vision from…
Read moreWe headed down to Winter Funland Birmingham and thoroughly enjoyed it, despite mixed reviews popping up on the internet. Here’s our Winter Funland Birmingham review. Like many others have mentioned before attending the event seeing an indoor funfair priced at…
Read moreIt’s always disappointing when an undeniably incredible true story is turned into a film that tells said story in a way that undercuts just how remarkable the story truly is. The Swimmers, which follows teenage Olympic swimming hopeful Yusra Mardini…
Read moreA lakeside cabin, illicit substances, and a group of teenagers; that’s a set-up for a spooky tale as old as time. Audiences know the drill by now, and so does “My Best Friend’s Exorcism.” And there’s no better time to…
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