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Bugonia (2025) Review – Paranoia Has a Sting
In one sentence: Bugonia follows two conspiracy-obsessed cousins who kidnap a powerful tech CEO, convinced she is an alien intent on wiping out humanity. In an effort to watch all of this year’s Oscar-nominated films, I found myself reluctantly sitting down to a Yorgos Lanthimos movie. I have struggled with his work in the past,…
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Blue Moon (2025) Review – Watching Success From the Sidelines
In one sentence: Set over the opening night of Oklahoma!, Blue Moon follows lyricist, Lorenz Hart, as he spends a lonely evening in a hotel bar reckoning with professional displacement and unrequited love. Most people are familiar with Rodgers & Hammerstein, the legendary composer–lyricist duo behind The Sound of Music, The King and I and…
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Titanic (1997) Review – The Gold Standard of Epic Cinema
In one sentence: Titanic follows a forbidden love between Jack and Rose, two young passengers from opposite worlds aboard the ill-fated ship. With Titanic’s long-standing Oscar nomination record recently surpassed by Ryan Coogler’s Sinners, I felt compelled to revisit James Cameron’s epic, particularly in the run-up to Valentine’s Day. Few films feel as synonymous with…
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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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Primate (2026) Review – From Pet to Predator
In one sentence: Primate follows a family whose pet chimpanzee contracts rabies, turning a quiet weekend in their remote Hawaiian home into a brutal fight for survival. Horror remains one of cinema’s most popular genres and there is rarely a shortage on the big screen. Primate is the latest and taps into a very primal…
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Pillion (2025) Review – When Intimacy Defies Expectation
In one sentence: Pillion shows a shy, sheltered man who enters into a consensual dom/sub relationship with an aloof biker, forcing both characters and audience to confront uncomfortable questions about power, intimacy and choice. Queer romance has increasingly found space in mainstream cinema, which is both welcome and necessary. Pillion, adapted from Adam Mars-Jones’ novel…
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Die My Love (2025) Review – A Portrait of Postpartum Descent
In one sentence: Die My Love presents a new mother’s descent into postnatal depression and psychosis that is intensified by isolation, dislocation and the emotional fallout of motherhood. We are often told that becoming a mother is transformative in the best possible way, but cinema rarely explores what happens when that transformation is destructive rather…
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The Housemaid (2025) Review – Lust, Lies and Locked Rooms
In one sentence: The Housemaid follows young woman, Millie, who takes a live-in job with a wealthy couple, only to find herself trapped in a seductive, gaslit power game where desire, deception and control are tightly locked behind closed doors. Bestselling psychological thrillers have become fertile ground for screen adaptations and The Housemaid sinks its…
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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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One Battle After Another (2025) Review – Revolution Without Rest
In one sentence: One Battle After Another follows a former revolutionary forced back into conflict when the past he tried to escape comes violently for his daughter. Cinema often treats conflict as something external, a battle to be fought and resolved, but One Battle After Another is more interested in conflict as a way of…
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