The resurrection is at hand, and actress-turned-filmmaker Maggie Gyllenhaal turns the volume all the way up as she revives the legend of The Bride of Frankenstein for an all-new generation. The result is THE BRIDE!, a film that jolts a blinding dash of punk-rock romance into classic gothic horror. Arriving in a riot of attitude, […]
Movie Reviews
‘No Other Choice’ – Park Chan-wook Turns Corporate Despair into a Savage, Blood-Soaked Farce – Review
There are filmmakers who flirt with satire, and then there is Park Chan-wook, who skewers it, salts it, and serves it with a knowing smile. No Other Choice is the South Korean auteur’s latest act of controlled cinematic cruelty — a pitch-black comedy thriller that transforms modern employment anxiety into a vicious, absurdist survival game. […]
‘Holy Days’ – A Road Trip of Faith, Friendship and Pure Kiwi Joy – Review
Nothing beats a proper Kiwi comedy, the kind that wears its heart on its sleeve, kicks up a bit of dust on the open road, and leaves you grinning long after the credits roll. With Holy Days, actress-turned-writer-director Nat Boltt delivers exactly that: a warm, whimsical, thoroughly charming road movie that feels tailor-made for those […]
‘EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert’ – The King Unchained: Baz Luhrmann Unearths a Lost Elvis in a Blazing Big-Screen Resurrection – Review
The King is back; not as myth, not as memory, but as pure, electrified presence. EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert storms into cinemas as a once-in-a-generation cinematic event, resurrecting Elvis Presley in full command of his voice, his body, and his incomparable musical soul. Built from previously unseen and long-believed-lost concert and rehearsal footage, this […]
‘The Bluff’ – A Ferocious Pirate Revenge Fantasy of Blood, Brine & Rock ’n’ Roll is Unleashed – Review
The Golden Age of Piracy looms large and blood-soaked in The Bluff, a cutlass-swinging, cannon-blasting blast of rock ’n’ roll escapism that barrels forward with swagger and intent. Directed by Frank E. Flowers, this Prime Video original is an all-action maritime throwdown, one that sees Priyanka Chopra-Jonas crossing blades with a gloriously unhinged Karl Urban […]
‘Crime 101’ – L.A. Film Noir At Full Throttle – Review
Los Angeles has long been synonymous with film noir, a city of shadowed intentions, neon-lit streets, and moral decay, and with Crime 101, that legacy gets a radical, adrenaline-soaked reinvention. Pulsing with raw energy and crackling tension, this four-pronged crime thriller smashes together intersecting lives at breakneck speed, delivering a film that lives right on […]
‘FX’s Love Story: John F. Kennedy Jr. & Carolyn Bessette’ – A Seductive Slow-Burn Love Tale in The Time of Flashbulbs – Review
Over Valentine’s weekend, romance arrived not as a whisper, but as a full-body experience. In cinemas, Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights howled across the moors, selling out sessions and unleashing a storm of yearning, discourse, and borderline feral TikTok devotion. Meanwhile, at home, audiences were drawn into something sleeker, sexier, and infinitely more dangerous: FX’s Love […]
‘Mārama — A Gothic Reckoning of Blood, Identity and Colonial Sin – Review
New Zealand cinema takes a daring step into the shadows with Mārama, a brooding, psychologically charged gothic-romantic-horror that grapples with identity, inheritance, and the violent aftershocks of colonial history. Writer-director Taratoa Stappard delivers a film of raw intensity and pulsing atmosphere, one that refuses comfort, certainty, or convention. This is gothic cinema with its teeth […]
“Wuthering Heights” – Emerald Fennell Unleashes Wild, Erotic, Ravishing Love Without Restraint – Review
The windswept, hallowed moors await audiences in the evocative, ecstatic, ethereal, extreme, and erotically charged cinema experience of Emerald Fennell’s “Wuthering Heights”. Delivering 2026’s boldest and most confronting vision of love and romance from every conceivable angle, this is a film that will leave you undone — shaken, breathless, and emotionally scorched. A passionate and […]
‘Is This Thing On?’ – Bradley Cooper Finds Comedy, Heartbreak, and Truth in the Mic – Review
Over the past decade, Bradley Cooper has quietly but confidently emerged as one of modern cinema’s most interesting multi-hyphenates. From A Star Is Born to Maestro, he’s proven impossible to categorise; constantly shifting tone, genre, and ambition. With Is This Thing On?, Cooper pivots once again, delivering his most intimate and surprising film yet. Partnering […]