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'Together' review: Alison Brie & Dave Franco are drawn to each other
Get ready to carry those moving boxes because there's a new home to move into in Together, a body horror for those looking for a little bit of gooey romance. Millie (Alison Brie) and Tim (Dave Franco) are a couple who have been together for a while now, her being a teacher and him being a struggling musical artist. With his first feature, writer-director Michael Shanks shows plenty of promise, particularly in the latter role. Simply in terms of its entertainment value, the fi

S.J.
Dec 26, 2025


'The Plague' review: Psychological drama makes your skin crawl
Here comes The Plague, which transports us back to 2003. 12-year-old Ben (Everett Blunck) arrives at a water polo camp for boys of similar age. He struggles a bit socially as his softer, more considerate personality doesn't quite mesh with his more hive-minded, raucous teammates. The group, often led by a kid named Jake (Kayo Martin), is shunning Eli (Kenny Rasmussen) who has developed a skin condition, which gives the film its title. Joel Edgerton plays coach "Daddy Wags".

S.J.
Dec 25, 2025


'The Great Flood' review: Swimming lessons with Kim Da-mi
At any rate, we shall wait for our forthcoming demise at the hands of mother nature and check out The Great Flood (대홍수 in Korean). The end of the world is here and a massive flood is annihilating the planet. In Seoul, South Korea, we follow Gu An-na (Kim Da-mi). She and her young son Ja-in (Kwon Eun-sung) wake up one morning just to find the water rising. Soon enough, the floodwater becomes an unrelenting foe and the duo tries to survive with help from Son Hee-jo (Park Hae-so

S.J.
Dec 18, 2025


'Mārama' review: Gothic horror drama wants them back | TIFF 2025
But we will be professional for a second since Mārama has booked us a one-way ticket to North Yorkshire to experience the ebb and flow of this gothic horror drama. It's 1859 and we travel alongside Mary Stevens (Ariāna Osborne), a Māori woman voyaging from New Zealand a.k.a Aotearoa to England. Mary then finds herself at a manor owned by Nathaniel Cole (Toby Stephens), a wealthy Brit who offers her a job as a governess because his granddaughter Anne (Evelyn Towersey) lives un

S.J.
Dec 13, 2025


'Keeper' review: Rossif Sutherland & Tatiana Maslany have cabin fever in Osgood Perkins' folk horror
For now, though, we are keeping up with Keeper, a folk horror set mostly in one house with plenty of spookiness to be expected. Liz (Tatiana Maslany) has been dating Malcolm (Rossif Sutherland), a doctor, for a year and to celebrate this, they're taking a weekend trip to his cabin. Horrific revelations follow. On the surface, director Osgood Perkins and screenwriter Nick Lepard have cooked up a fairly common and straightforward horror about people experiencing madness at a ca

S.J.
Dec 6, 2025


'The Family Plan 2' review: Holiday action comedy with Mark Wahlberg goes for seconds
The Family Plan 2 is working on another level. It is, of course, a sequel to 2023's 'The Family Plan', bringing back the Morgan family for seconds. A couple of years after the Las Vegas fiasco, ex-assassin Dan Morgan (Mark Wahlberg) has returned to boring suburban life with his wife, track-and-field coach Jessica (Michelle Monaghan), now-adult son and gamer Kyle (Van Crosby), and younger son Max (Peter Lindsey, Theodore Lindsey). Eldest child Nina (Zoe Colletti) has moved to

S.J.
Nov 29, 2025


'Sirāt' review: The desert has a techno-prisoners mentality
We're taking a nice little trip to the desert in order to feel the vibrations of Sirāt (same title used in Spain). Luis (Sergi López) arrives at a rave along with his young son Esteban (Bruno Núñez Arjona) and their dog Pipa, having travelled from Spain to search for his other child, Esteban's sister Mar, who they haven't heard from in a long time. The dynamic duo distribute photos of her as techno tunes rage on, before the party is shut down by the Moroccan army who order ev

S.J.
Nov 23, 2025


'Sisu: Road To Revenge' review: Action thriller needs to Finnish the job
The backwoods are so back and so is one former commando in the action thriller Sisu: Road To Revenge (also known as Sisu 2 in Finland, stylised as SI2U), which is a sequel to 2023's 'Sisu'. We're obviously talking about Aatami Korpi (Jorma Tommila), who we'll now exclusively refer to as Aatami Sisu. What's different this time around is that writer-director Jalmari Helander and his army of creatives embrace fun, absurdity as well as intentional or unintentional influences more

S.J.
Nov 17, 2025


'The Beast In Me' series review: Claire Danes & Matthew Rhys are closed books in Netflix crime thriller
On a more serious note, there's nothing that writers love more than writing about writers, which brings us neatly to a new miniseries called The Beast In Me. This eight-episode crime thriller created by Gabe Rotter and showrun by Howard Gordon starts with one thing and that's Aggie Wiggs (Claire Danes). She's a successful author. Aggie's life takes an unexpected left turn when her new neighbours in Oyster Bay, New York turn out to be Nile (Matthew Rhys) and Nina Jarvis (Britt

S.J.
Nov 13, 2025


'Ballad Of A Small Player' review: Colin Farrell knows you can bet on him
Maybe reading is for losers, though, which is why we're watching Ballad Of A Small Player, a film adaptation of Lawrence Osborne's novel 'The Ballad Of A Small Player'. Colin Farrell stars as Lord Doyle who's an alcoholic gambler causing mischief in Macau that is famous for its gambling industry. Grabbing the viewer's attention isn't an issue at all as director Edward Berger is very much indulging in the visual pomp that the location offers. Cinematographer James Friend goes

S.J.
Nov 9, 2025


'A House Of Dynamite' review: Kathryn Bigelow's political thriller threatens to explode
Director Kathryn Bigelow returns from hibernation with A House Of Dynamite, a political thriller with deadly stakes. Broken into three parts, we begin by following Olivia Walker (Rebecca Ferguson), a captain and an official working at the titular house which is White House. In addition to Walker, we also follow events from the points-of-view of deputy security advisor Jake Baerington (Gabriel Basso); defence secretary Reid Baker (Jared Harris); major Daniel Gonzalez (Anthony

S.J.
Oct 31, 2025


'The Lost Bus' review: Matthew McConaughey pulls out all the stops to save everyone | TIFF 2025
Kevin McKay, Matthew McConaughey's character in The Lost Bus, might do just that, considering the extraordinary situation he's thrust into. He is a school bus driver in California's Butte County in 2018. A large-scale wildfire breaks out in the city of Paradise. Kevin responds to a call to pick up 22 kids in order to evacuate them, but soon enough, he and teacher Mary Ludwig (America Ferrera) must keep everyone safe and find a way out of the uncontrolled fires when all hell b

S.J.
Oct 25, 2025
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