Released: Friday 4th April 2025 Directed: Jed Hart Cast: Lyndsey Marshal, Aston McAuley, Barry Ward For the audience, Restless lasts a mere 89 minutes. For main character Nicky (Lyndsey Marshal), it’s only one week of her life. Despite these relatively short sentences, Jed Hart’s tremendous thriller feels like, in the best way, an eternity of […]
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Can Online Gaming Be Considered a Competitive Sport?
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Online gaming has generated debate on whether this phenomenon should be termed a competitive sport or not. The measurement events are organized for contests with professional players and a huge global audience, which have created many factors...
Death Of A Unicorn ★★
Released: 4th April 2025 Director: Alex Scharfman Starring: Paul Rudd, Jenna Ortega, Will Poulter The ‘eat the rich’ narrative has become commonplace cinema over the last few years —Triangle of Sadness, The Menu, and Blink Twice being recent examples. In A24’s Death of a Unicorn, director Alex Scharfman takes the theme quite literally when mythical...
Programme Revealed For Queer East Festival 2025
Queer East Festival is back from 23 April to 18 May 2025 for a four-week-long festival of cinema and performing arts across London, showcasing over 100 titles, including features, shorts, documentaries and moving image work that explores the ever-evolving queer landscape across East and Southeast Asia. The richness of Asian and queer...
MOVIE REVIEW: Warfare
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WARFARE– 4 STARS
Following a quick pre-credits scene of burly servicemen surrounding a small television roaring over the hot, lithe bodies of an energetic aerobics video, Warfare hits its datestamp of November 19, 2006 and the chicanery ends....
MOVIE REVIEW: A Minecraft Movie
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A MINECRAFT MOVIE– 3 STARS
LESSON #1: CAN YOU PUT A STORY ON SOMETHING OPEN-ENDED?-- The automatic question approaching A Minecraft Movie is universal between the 204 million active players and the outside non-admirers: Can you put...
Interview With Director Darren Thornton/Co-Writer Colin Thornton (Four Mothers)
Happily declaring it a ‘wonderfully warm hug’ in my official review. Ahead of Four Mothers’ UK release on Friday 4th April. There was no case of the Monday (31th March) blues here, as I hopped on what proved to be a rather lovely Zoom call with the film’s director Darren Thornton and co-writer Colin Thornton. […]
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MOVIE REVIEW: Eric LaRue
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ERIC LARUE– 3 STARS
Take it from this career educator. Mass shootings taking place at schools have become problematic and regrettably too commonplace in the United States. It’s also evolved to be a hypersensitive topic to address on the...
Birmingham’s Flatpack Festival Launches 2025 Programme
Back for its 19th edition this May across multiple Birmingham venues such as Mockingbird Cinema, Midland Arts Centre and Pan-Pan. The 2025 Flatpack Festival has once again delivered a brilliantly eclectic programme, ready to showcase talent based within the region and from across the world. Promising an exciting reinvention of the classic samurai epic...
A Minecraft Movie ★★★
Released: 4th April 2025 Director: Jared Hess Starring: Jack Black, Jason Momoa, Danielle Brooks It’s no shocking non-knowledge that I have never played Minecraft, despite its massive influence on the gaming world. I’ve heard plenty about it from the gaming community—how it’s a sandbox phenomenon where players build, craft, and survive in blocky landscapes—but...
