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Song Sung Blue (2025) Review – More Than Just a Tribute
In one sentence: Song Sung Blue follows a struggling performer who teams up with a fellow singer to form a Neil Diamond tribute act, as their partnership evolves into a love story shaped by ambition and hardship. Sometimes there are films you overlook because you assume they just won’t be for you. That was the…
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The Last Five Years (2014) Review – Love Out of Sync
In one sentence: In The Last Five Years, a couple’s relationship unfolds across two opposing timelines, revealing how love can grow, shift and ultimately fall apart through differing perspectives. Jason Robert Brown’s The Last Five Years celebrates its 25th anniversary this year, and I was fortunate enough to see Ben Platt and Rachel Zegler perform…
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Project Hail Mary (2026) Review – Science, Survival and Unexpected Friendship
In one sentence: In Project Hail Mary, a lone scientist awakens aboard a spacecraft with no memory of how he got there, only to discover he is humanity’s last hope and that he may not be alone in his mission. Sci-fi is not always a genre that everyone naturally gravitates towards and Project Hail Mary…
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Send Help (2026) Review – When Workplace Power Dynamics Wash Ashore
In one sentence: In Send Help, an underappreciated office worker and her privileged boss wash up on a deserted island after a plane crash where their workplace power struggle takes on a far more dangerous form. We often imagine survival situations strip people back to their most basic instincts, removing the structures and hierarchies of…
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Adore (2013) Review – Tides of Desire
In one sentence: Adore follows two lifelong friends who find their bond tested when each begins a secret affair with the other’s son, setting in motion a tangled web of love, loyalty and taboo desire. Cinema frequently explores forbidden love, but rarely with the ambiguous morality and emotional nuance found in Adore. The film challenges…
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Sinners (2025) Review – Monsters, Men and Moral Reckoning
In one sentence: Sinners follows twin brothers who return to 1930s Mississippi to open a blues bar, only to find themselves trapped overnight when a group of vampires seek entry, turning a place of refuge into a desperate fight for survival. It is not often that a horror film performs strongly at the Oscars, let…
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Wuthering Heights (2026) Review – Style, Shock and Stormy Passion
In one sentence: In Emerald Fennell’s bold reimagining of Wuthering Heights, the fierce bond between Cathy and the brooding Heathcliff is tested by ambition, betrayal and the pull of social status on the Yorkshire moors. Emerald Fennell offers her own provocative take on Emily Brontë’s gothic classic, delivering a version that is visually bold, narratively…
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Kangaroo (2026) Review – Finding Purpose in the Australian Outback
In one sentence: Kangaroo follows a disgraced TV weatherman and a grieving young girl whose shared care for an orphaned joey leads them both toward healing, purpose and an unexpected community. Kangaroos are synonymous with Australia, but how much do we really know about these springy animals and the place they hold in Australian culture?…
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Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere (2025) Review – Less Myth, More Man
In one sentence: Set during the recording of Nebraska, Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere follows a young Bruce Springsteen as personal trauma and rising fame collide, forcing him to confront his growing depression. Suicide is the leading cause of death amongst men under 50, with figures continuing to rise, which is why conversations around depression…
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Balloon (2018) Review – A Remarkable True Escape
In one sentence: Balloon tells the astonishing true story of two families who attempt to escape across the Iron Curtain in a homemade hot air balloon. Mark Twain once said “Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; truth isn’t”and no quote could ring truer for German…
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