Tornado
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Tornado

Tornado (2025) brings the spirit of old-school samurai cinema to the West with an unusual setting in the Scottish Isles…

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Joker: Folie à Deux
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Joker: Folie à Deux

On the 3rd of October, I had the privilege of attending the Joker 2: Folie À Deux screening at Cineworld, Leicester Square. I arrived fifteen minutes before the gates were set to open and found quite a line outside the venue…

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Megalopolis
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Megalopolis

Megalopolis is the 40 year passion project of a controversial, lauded and ambitious director that pulls from ancient history, 21st century pop culture and everything in between…

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Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
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Beetlejuice Beetlejuice

Tim Burton’s sequel to Beetlejuice is a feast for the eyes and a delight for Burton fans. Incorporating the director's signature witty humour, dynamic characters, gory moments and unexpected musical numbers (including a memorable Soul Train sequence), the film never loses its sense of fun…

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Smile
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Smile

Audiences and critics alike are raving about the new horror film called ‘Smile’. The film premiered in cinemas on September 22 and is still drawing in new watchers…

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Lucky
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Lucky

Without spoiling too much of the plot, Lucky is the story of Lucky Barima Mensah, a Twitter-famous university student who lands the date of the century with the most desired girl on social media. In need of money, he teams up with his best friend and bonafide hustler to try and sell a laptop to local gangsters.

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Coming 2 America
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Coming 2 America

Coming 2 America was exactly how I imagined it would be which was the most disappointing part of watching this film. When I first watched the trailer my heart sank, the film looked like it had been hit full force by the formulaic system Hollywood had been working with for a few years now and I knew it would be yet another basic Hollywood comedy…

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One Night in Miami
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One Night in Miami

Even before One Night In Miami has a chance to start we already know to expect something great. Inspired by true events, Regina King’s directorial debut centres around an imaging of a meeting between legends Malcolm X, Muhammad Ali, Jim Brown and Sam Cooke.

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