“You keep dancin’ with the devil… one day he gon’ follow you home.”

(this is a non-spoiler review where I don’t directly discuss the twist/conceit of Sinners, in case people don’t know what it is - the first trailer was perfectly mysterious & the second sadly spoiled it for me)

Sinners is already a serious contender for my favourite film of 2025. Granted, it’s only April, but I think Sinners is so outstanding, so cinematic, so brutal, and so weighty from…

“I think I just stepped into a James Joyce novel.”

The above quote in Irish Wish is said by Lindsay Lohan’s character as she looks out at the Cliffs of Moher (which she repeatedly and wrongly pronounces as Moore), and despite the fact that Joyce’s works are nearly all about Dublin City. 

Irish Wish is the worst thing to happen to my people since The Great Famine and British colonialism. Honestly, this might be worse. 

Irish Wish is abysmal. It…

“Sometimes I eat so much I can’t… breathe?”

The original animated Lilo & Stitch is probably my favourite Disney animated film of all time. I have watched it dozens of times in the last two decades, and I think it is essentially a masterpiece. 

I do not care for Disney live action remakes - in fact, I haven’t even bothered to watch the majority of them, such as The Lion King, Mufasa, Beauty & the Beast, Mulan, Aladdin, and more. I don’t…

“We're gonna die!”
“Think positive!”
“We're gonna die quickly!”

For as much as I watched the original live action Scooby-Doo as a kid, I didn’t very much from the sequel Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed, and I can see why. 

Monsters Unleashed is way more slapstick than I expected it to be, and it’s way more incoherent too. It’s loud, it’s colourful, it has actual monsters from the iconic cartoon, Scooby-Doo is animated much better and Matthew Lillard is great…

“Righteousness without power is just an opinion.”

I had a feeling that Thunderbolts* was gonna be good, and I’m glad that my hunch has been proved correct!

Thunderbolts* is my favourite MCU film since Galaxy of the Guardians Vol. 3, and it’s a surprisingly unique entry in a cinematic universe 30-odd films in. 

Thunderbolts* is nevertheless plagued with general MCU problems - quippy humour that detracts from the stakes at hand, dodgy CGI (particularly during the debut scene of The…

“Toosh.”

I love all of Sean Baker’s films, and I think he is a singular talent in American independent cinema today. The Florida Project is in my top 5 films of the 2010’s, Red Rocket is superb, as is Tangerine. Baker’s penchant to shine a light on marginalised American communities (immigrants, sex workers, impoverished communities) is his greatest asset, and I love that he does so without ever ing judgement or exploiting these marginalised people. 

That all being said, it…