thriller The Stanford Prison Experiment 26 Feb 2021Feb 26, 2021 "You have no right to mess with my head" ★★★★★ Kyle Patrick Alvarez's American thriller The Stanford Prison Experiment (2015) unearths the 1971 social psychology experiment led by Philip Zimbardo,…
action U-571 1 Feb 2021Feb 6, 2021 "Either you succeed in sinking that ship, or you see to it that none of us survive to be captured" ★★★★ Jonathan Mostow's film U-571 (2000) exists in the liminal…
thriller Escape from Pretoria 29 Jan 2021Feb 6, 2021 "Freedom is a very simple idea, which is perhaps why it can be so easily lost" ★★★★★ Francis Annan's Australian thriller Escape from Pretoria (2020) is based on the real-life…
horror The Ritual 20 Jan 2021Feb 6, 2021 "We're not the only animals in the woods" ★★★ At first glance, and much to the elation of all horror fans, David Bruckner’s British debut feature film The Ritual (2017)…
adventure Embrace of the Serpent 15 Jan 2021Feb 6, 2021 "In this journey he must find out, in solitude and silence, who he truly is" ★★★★★ In his 2015 Colombian adventure drama Embrace of the Serpent (Spanish: El Albrazo de…
sci-fi Dark City 8 Jan 2021Feb 6, 2021 "Nothing like a little healthy paranoia" ★★★★★ Some films are doomed to obscurity, just like the citizens in Alex Proyas’ Dark City (1998). Subject to the circumstantial time and space…
comedy The Favourite 4 Dec 2020Feb 1, 2021 "We'll make a killer of you yet" ★★★★ Yorgos Lanthimos' dark comedy The Favourite (2018) hones in on one of history's most intricate power plays - one that took place…
thriller The Usual Suspects 23 Nov 2020Dec 21, 2020 "The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist" ★★★★ Bryan Singer's (X-Men, Bohemian Rhapsody) neo-noir thriller The Usual Suspects (1995) got its title from…
drama The Wife 13 Nov 2020Dec 21, 2020 "The public can't stomach bold prose from a woman" ★★★★★ The dazzling appeal of Björn L. Runge's drama The Wife (2017) rests in Glenn Close's reflections on her character, which…
animation The Big Bad Fox and Other Tales 11 Nov 2020Dec 21, 2020 "Let it blossom, let it flow. That's life." ★★★★★ Told in a quaint, almost Aesopian way, Benjamin Renner’s The Big Bad Fox (French: Le Grand Méchant Renard et autres contes, 2017)…
horror The Hole in the Ground 6 Nov 2020Dec 21, 2020 "They swing from monsters to angels and back again in the blink of an eye" ★★ There is something undeniably creepy about the bleak stares of children, whose mothers are…
horror Slaughterhouse Rulez 24 Sep 2020Dec 21, 2020 "This is war. No, this is Sparta." ★★★ Bringing back the comedic duo from Edgar Wright's Shaun of the Dead (2004) sounds like the greatest idea since sliced bread, enriching…
sci-fi Tenet 6 Sep 2020Jan 11, 2021 "We all believe we’d run into the burning building. But until we feel that heat, we can never know. You do." ★★★ Christopher Nolan is known for exploring the concept…
action The International 3 Sep 2020Dec 21, 2020 "Sometimes a man can meet his destiny on the road he took to avoid it" ★★ Tom Tykwer's 2009 action thriller The International was inspired by the Bank of Credit…
fantasy Paradise Hills 19 May 2020Dec 21, 2020 "This place is a lie" ★★ Some people would argue that endings are far more important than beginnings. After all, it's the aftertaste that must make us crave the experience…
