A Beautiful, Flawed Experiment — Frankenstein (London Film Festival 2025 Review) Matt Goddard It’s tough to balance the creator and the creation. Guillermo Del Toro’s Frankenstein comes with a massive weight of anticipation. An undead weight. The Mexican...
Freshly Sharpened — Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (London Film Festival 2025 Review) There's a new double act in mystery town Rian Johnson’s detective franchise rolls into a trilogy with its strongest instalment yet. After the indulgence of the...
Waiting To Soar — Superman (Review) A modest, promising start. How did Frank Herbert put it in Dune? “A beginning is a very delicate time.” A prescient phrase for that science-fiction epic’s struggle to find itself at the cinema, but it couldn’t be more...
F1 — Can’t Stop the Pitt A blockbuster to get every engine revving. Thirty-five years ago, uber-producer Jerry Bruckheimer unleashed the roar and speed of NASCAR on cinema screens. Days of Thunder was a racing smash, but critics were quick to notice its...
Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning — Needs A Bigger Bang Even impossible missions have to end. When Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning quietly dropped the ‘Part One’ of its title after failing to burn brightly enough at the box office, it...
