Ghosts: The Possession of Button House Review- A Bitter Sweet Ending to the Franchise ★★★★

2 years after the ending of the show ghosts is back with a brand new addition to the series in the form of a movie. The film is set a few months after the ending of season five and we follow the ghosts as they try to get Alison to help them get rid of […]

Fantastic (Fest) Favorites!

In September I had the privilege of volunteering at Fantastic Fest, a genre film festival in Austin, Texas that spotlights lesser-known films and filmmakers. This year, Fantastic Fest brought film and TV from up and comers such as Lance Oppenheim (Primetime) and genre-king and previous Fantastic Fest filmmaker Mike Flanagan (Carrie). As part of writing […]

Beneath the Blue: Revisiting Moonlight Ten Years On

There are films you remember enjoying in cinema, some you admire for the technical craft, the scale and spectacle and then there are films which meet you at different points of your life, which reveal something new about you, or the film itself. Barry Jenkin’s second directorial feature, Moonlight, belongs to the latter. Nine years […]

Art Won’t Save Us: Artificial, Digger and the Politics of Despair

What is the purpose of art in a worsening world? This year, we’ve seen two major films that aim to tackle threats of extinction and elite culpability through different lenses. Artificial, by Luca Guadagnino, chronicles the rise of OpenAI and seeks to raise awareness of the potentially dangerous consequences of artificial intelligence. Digger, by Alejandro […]

LFF 2026: A Long Winter- Family Secrets Thaw in Icy Drama

A Long Winter follows Mike (Fred Hechinger), a young adult who finds himself alone with his domineering father, Lester (Ebon Moss-Bachrach), in the icy Colorado mountains during the winter after his mother, Louise (Caitriona Balfe), walks into the snow. As the winter gets more intense, the search for Louise progresses, but with it come secrets […]

LFF 2026: The Last Day Review: Love, Loss and Longing for Someone to Notice ★★

Set against the backdrop of the highly celebrated Fourth of July in America, we meet two women with very different lives, who unknowingly are both facing similar hardships. With gatherings at every turn and fireworks lighting up the sky, can either woman truly express how they are feeling? Shadowing the two leads, Julia (Alicia Vikander) […]

LFF 2026: Club Kid Review: Jordan Firstman’s Self-Rediscovery Tale is a Vibrant Instant Classic ★★★★.5

One of the year’s big festival hits, Club Kid is Jordan Firstman’s directorial debut, and it introduces him as one of cinema’s next big voices with this heartfelt, hilarious tale of self-rediscovery. Also the writer of the film, Firstman stars as Peter, a gay underground party promoter who struggles with drug and alcohol addiction, whose […]

Clayface Review: DC’s Boldest Horror Film in Years ★★★★.5

Directed by horror vet James Watkins, and penned by auteur Mike Flanagan with further revisions by Oscar nominee Hossein Amini, DC’s Clayface is a project that has a lot of weight behind it, considering the scale of the production. Bringing the tale of Matt Hagen, an actor whose tragic story results in him becoming (one […]

LFF 2026: Heysel 85 Review: A Light Shone on One of Football’s Darkest Hours ★★★★.5

May 29, 1985 is a date that has gone down in infamy for all sports fans, as the day on which 39 football fans tragically lost their lives in the Heysel Stadium disaster in Brussels. The tragedy changed the face of European football as we know it, but many people may not be aware just […]

LFF 2026: Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother Review: The Blade That Wasn’t ★★★★.5

The ghost of Marvel’s Blade haunts Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother (2026). Mahershala Ali, the film’s lead, was slated to play the vampire hunter in the MCU, only for that film to hit roadblock after roadblock. The same goes for director Bassam Tariq, who was set to direct the Marvel Studios film but left […]