Tag: Oscars

  • The Drama (2026) Review – The Things We Can’t Unhear

    The Drama (2026) Review – The Things We Can’t Unhear

    In one sentence: A seemingly perfect relationship unravels when a single confession forces a couple to confront whether we can ever truly know the person we love. Has your blood ever run cold when hearing your partner reveal something about themselves that you simply can’t unhear? A moment that fundamentally alters how you see them,…

  • Marty Supreme (2025) Review – When Ambition Becomes Obsession

    Marty Supreme (2025) Review – When Ambition Becomes Obsession

    In one sentence: Marty Supreme follows a gifted but egotistical 1950s ping pong prodigy who chases international glory, only to find that his relentless ambition begins to destroy the very relationships and opportunities he believes he deserves. Napoleon Bonaparte once said “Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may…

  • Train Dreams (2025) Review – A Quiet Portrait of Loss and Endurance

    Train Dreams (2025) Review – A Quiet Portrait of Loss and Endurance

    In one sentence: Train Dreams follows a solitary labourer in the early twentieth-century American West who endures profound personal tragedies while witnessing a rapidly changing world that seems to move on without him. Netflix’s Oscar nominated entry is far removed from its usual output, offering instead a quiet, meditative character study set against the transformation…

  • Sinners (2025) Review – Monsters, Men and Moral Reckoning

    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…

  • The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964) Review – A Musical That Rains Emotion

    The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964) Review – A Musical That Rains Emotion

    In one sentence: A pair of young lovers are separated by war and circumstance, discovering that first love does not always survive the realities of adulthood. Few films suit a grey, rain-soaked day quite like The Umbrellas of Cherbourg. With its constant drizzle, luminous colours and one of cinema’s most beautiful soundtracks, this 1960s classic…

  • One Battle After Another (2025) Review – Revolution Without Rest

    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…

  • Hamnet (2026) Review – A Raw Meditation on Grief

    Hamnet (2026) Review – A Raw Meditation on Grief

    In one sentence: Based on Maggie O’Farrell’s best selling novel, Hamnet explores the impact of the death of Shakespeare’s young son and how this loss was transformed into art through grief, memory and loss. Often we watch films hoping to be surprised, but Hamnet is not interested in twists. Its power lies instead in emotional…