One of the best romance films of the last five years, and without question the best romantic movie I’ve seen this year. Romance has become a genre where we’ve had more quantity than quality over the past decade. So many films come and go without leaving much of an impression. Voicemails for Isabelle is different. This is…
With the first episode of House of the Dragon Season 3 arriving today, I’ve found myself thinking back to an incredible opportunity I had last year: spending a day on set with showrunner Ryan Condal at Warner Bros. Studios Leavesden. At the time, Season 3 was deep in production, and it was fascinating to witness the sheer…
In this conversation, actor Darin Toonder reflects on his role in Obsession, a low-budget horror-thriller directed by Curry Barker that has been gaining attention for its unusual blend of improvisational performance and suspense-driven storytelling. Toonder plays Harry, a laid-back, slightly eccentric character who works in a shop filled with crystals, incense, and spiritual trinkets an unexpected departure from the more…
I need to talk about the Off Campus hype. If your social media feed looks anything like mine, you would think this show has single-handedly reinvented romance television. It has not. That said, I do not want to be unfair, because Off Campus is genuinely enjoyable, it just has not quite earned the level of…
I haven’t seen many Michael Jackson documentaries before, and when he died I was too young to really understand everything surrounding him. I still liked his music, though, so watching this felt like filling in gaps I never properly explored. The title of this three-part BBC documentary raises a bigger question: whose story is it really telling? Is it…
Sometimes you don’t want gritty realism or prestige TV sometimes you just want something smart, silly, and ridiculously entertaining. It’s pretty impossible to create anything truly original in the packed murder/police crime drama genre, and High Potential doesn’t try to reinvent the wheel. Instead, it relies on strong performances, a tight script, and a genuine sense…
There have been countless documentaries about Michael Jackson a superstar whose meteoric rise collapsed in the 2000s amid allegations of child sexual abuse that followed him until his death in 2009. This four-part Channel 4 documentary focuses on the events leading up to the 2005 trial for molesting Gavin Arvizo, a 13-year-old boy a case in which Jackson was…
Filmmaking often looks glamorous from the outside the finished frames, the festival screenings, the cinematic escape. But as director and actor Josh Shea reminds us, the reality is far more grounded. It’s early mornings before sunrise, coffee in hand, and a quiet moment of disbelief where you ask yourself, what are we actually doing? In this…
It seems that there is at least one Agatha Christie adaptation released every year, either at the cinema, streaming or on terrestrial TV and the popularity of the world famous murder mystery novelist, who died in 1976, shows no sign of waning. “Seven Dials” out now on Netflix does not try and invent the wheel….
“Just because a man is an ally doesn’t mean that he is on your side.” I didn’t know much about the Nuremberg Trials that began in 1945, so this film turned out to be a genuinely insightful watch. I’ve always enjoyed war films, especially in recent years. Darkest Hour and 1917 were both brilliant and I’d comfortably add…
