The Baby in the Basket 2025 REVIEW
The Baby in the Basket 2025 brings vintage scares, haunting performances and atmospheric dread back from the crypt, writes TERRY SHERWOOD| Spooky Isles
Jafar Panahi Turns Trauma Into Defiance The post ‘It Was Just an Accident’ Review appeared first on Script Magazine.| Script Magazine
Park Chan-wook Turns Unemployment Into a Blood Sport in 'No Other Choice' The post ‘No Other Choice’ Review appeared first on Script Magazine.| Script Magazine
The Baby in the Basket 2025 brings vintage scares, haunting performances and atmospheric dread back from the crypt, writes TERRY SHERWOOD| Spooky Isles
David Lee Fisher’s Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror 2023 offers a visually experimental but flawed homage to Murnau’s classic, writes RICHARD MARKWORTH| Spooky Isles
Today I’m over at Shiny New Books with a selection of five classic novels that are being made into films or TV series – some arriving on our screens in time for Christmas… Read my post HERE. They include the upcoming Netflix miniseries of Pride & Prejudice starring Emma Corrin and Jack Lowden, with Olivia Read More| AnnaBookBel
Ben Leonberg’s directorial debut, told from a canine’s-eye view, gives new, tail-wagging life to a predictable genre| New Statesman
Films included in this issue are: All of You; The Astronaut; Bad Man; Better Days; A Big Bold Beautiful Journey; Brides; Can I Get a Witness?; Colorful Stage! The Movie: A Miku Who Can’t Sing; The Conjuring: Last Rites; The Courageous; The Cut; Dead of Winter; Deaf; Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Yaiba – Infinity Castle; Detective Conan: One-Eyed Flashback; Diplo: The Mighty Dinosaur ; Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale; Ghost Trail; The Glassworker; Happyend; Highest 2 Lowest; Honey Don’t!; Ic...| STEVE ALDOUS, Writer
I have a confession: the first time I pushed film, it was by accident. I had loaded our Canon AE-1 with Kodak Ektar 100, but forgot to change the camera’s... The post Pushing Film to the Limit: Ilford HP5+ Pushed 3, 4, & 5 Stops by Taylor Blanchard appeared first on Shoot It With Film.| Shoot It With Film
Informed by her own experience of the sex industry, Kelly discusses ‘Stacey Dooley Sleeps Over. S6 E1 Lily Phillips: X-Rated Creator’.| Nordic Model Now!
Films included in this issue are: Americana; Caught Stealing; The Ceremony; Christy; Dongji Rescue; Dreams (Sex Love); Eddington; 40 Acres; Freakier Friday; Grand Prix of Europe; Heidi: Rescue of the Lynx; Ick; In the Nguyen Kitchen; The Jolly Monkey; The Kingdom; Late Shift; The Life of Chuck; Little Trouble Girls; Love (Sex Dreams); Materialists; The Naked Gun; Night Always Comes; Nobody 2; Red Sonja; The Roses; Savages; Sex (Dreams Love); Sorry, Baby; Super-Charlie; The Thursday Murder Clu...| STEVE ALDOUS, Writer
Men talk about this a lot: The ultimate betrayal a man can make of his male friend is to have sex with that man’s wife or girlfriend. Some men undoubtedly would prefer to be murdered by their best friend than be cuckolded by them. Why is this so, and why does no one talk about…| Fort Worth Weekly
From Hell 2001 reimagines the Ripper legend with gothic style, gruesome mystery, and a dash of opium-fuelled clairvoyance, writes DAVID SAUNDERSON| Spooky Isles
I went to my doctor’s office last week for my annual physical, and while they were testing my hearing, I had to tell them that I wasn’t hearing the tones clearly because they were playing “Golden” in the examination room. That’s just one measure of the success of Netflix’s animated film KPop Demon Hunters, where…| Fort Worth Weekly
If you’ve heard anything about Ne Zha II, it’s likely about the insane box-office numbers that it did this past spring. The animated sequel to the pre-pandemic film Ne Zha managed to out-earn Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ entire global run, and did it in a week and a half before it played anywhere outside…| Fort Worth Weekly
Jenna, a prostitution survivor, discusses ‘1000 Men and Me – the Bonnie Blue Story’, drawing parallels with her own experiences of paid sex.| Nordic Model Now!
Films included in this issue are: The Activated Man; The Bad Guys 2; The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire; Bring Her Back; Dying; The Fantastic Four: First Steps; Four Letters of Love; Frankie Freako; Friendship; Gazer; Gundi: Legend of Love; Harvest; The Home; Hot Milk; I Know What You Did Last Summer; Johnny Puff: Secret Mission; Jujutsu Kaisen: Hidden Inventory/Premature Death – The Movie; Jungle Trouble; Jurassic World: Rebirth; The Land That Time Forgot; Modi: Three Days on the Wing of Madne...| STEVE ALDOUS, Writer
Mstyslav Chernov’s new documentary viscerally throws its audience into the gruesome war in Ukraine. It is essential viewing.| New Statesman
Smile 2 Review - A Sequel that Slays the First #smile2 #smilemovie| Whisky + Sunshine
JURASSIC WORLD: REBIRTH (2025, USA/UK/Malta/India, 133m, 12) ***½| STEVE ALDOUS, Writer
A fair number of Bollywood movies have stories that stretch out over decades so that the same actor portrays a father and then his son. Rarely do we see this happen with the same actress portraying a mother and daughter, but that is exactly what happens in The Queen of My Dreams, which is not…| Fort Worth Weekly
Volume 3, Number 30 of the UK Monthly Film Review is now available in PDF format. This issue features UK film releases from 31 May to 27 June 2025. Films included in this issue are: Ballerina; Chicken Town; Dangerous Animals; Elio; F1; Falling Into Place; From Hilde, With Love; Goebbels and the Fuhrer; How to...| STEVE ALDOUS, Writer
FISH CALLED WANDA, A (1988, UK/USA, 108m, 15) **** Comedy, Crime dist. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) (USA), United International Pictures (UIP) (UK); pr co. Prominent Features / Star Partners Limited Partnership; d. Charles Crichton; w. John Cleese (based on a story by John Cleese and Charles Crichton); pr. Michael Shamberg; ph. Alan Hume (Technicolor | 1.85:1); m....| STEVE ALDOUS, Writer
The Odyssey, an ancient Greek epic poem, is one of the most famous works of world literature. Countless adaptations of it have come out over the years in virtually all forms of media including books, stage plays, films, television series, video games, and musicals—but one thing most of these adaptations have in common is that … Continue reading "Everything I Liked and Hated about Uberto Pasolini’s ‘The Return’ (2024)"| Tales of Times Forgotten
I’m not completely done with the movies of 2017 — the ogres over at Sony Pictures Classics didn’t let me see Loveless and A Fantastic Woman, both of which have been nominated for the Best Foreign Film Oscar. If the occasion arises to discuss them, I’ll report back to you, dear readers. In the meantime,…| Fort Worth Weekly
This Oscar-nominated film tells the true story of Brazil’s missing dissident former congressman.| New Statesman
In Hard Truths, Pansy Deacon (Marianne Jean-Baptiste) is checking out of a supermarket in suburban London when she suddenly attacks the cashier (Ashna Rabheru): “Look at you! Fix your face! You’re dealing with the public, handling people’s food! You should be ashamed looking like that!” When the women behind her in the checkout line object…| Fort Worth Weekly
Disney’s Moana 2 begins with our heroine (voiced by Auli’i Cravalho) now a full-fledged wayfinder of her tribe who’s tasked with finding other inhabited islands and bringing the different peoples of the ocean together. A shard of pottery on a deserted island convinces her elders that she’s on the right path, so she’s given a…| Fort Worth Weekly
یہ 2003ء میں ریلیز ہونے والی انڈین فلم ہے جس میں مشہور اداکار عرفان خان نے سٹوڈنٹ لیڈر کا مرکزی کردار ادا کیا ہے۔ اس فلم کے ڈائریکٹر اور رائٹر تگمانشو دھلیا ہیں جو مختلف فلموں میں اداکاری کے جوہر بھی چکے ہیں۔ یہ فلم گزشتہ تین دہائیوں میں اسRead More The post فلم ری ویو: حاصل (HAASIL) first appeare...| Progressive Youth Alliance
یہ 1957ء میں ریلیز ہونے والی ایک انڈین فلم ہے جو بلیک ایند وائٹ میں بنائی گئی تھی۔ اس فلم کے پروڈیوسر اور ڈائریکٹر مشہور فلمساز گرو دت ہیں اور یہ ان کی سب سے بڑی شاہکار ہے۔ اس فلم کے گانے مشہور انقلابی شاعر ساحر لدھیانوی نے لکھے ہیں۔Read More The post فلم ری ویو: پیاسا first appeared on Progressive Yout...| Progressive Youth Alliance
حال ہی میں نیٹ فلیکس پر ریلیز ہونے والی مختصر انڈین سیریز ”دی ریلوے مین“ یقینی طور پر ثقافتی بیہودگی کے اس دور میں خوشگوار ہوا کا ایک جھونکا ہے۔ سیریز کا موضوع 1984ء میں بھوپال، انڈیا میں رونما ہونے والا ایک خوفناک صنعتی حادثہ ہے جس میں امریکی کیمیکلRead More The post سیریز ری ویو: دی ...| Progressive Youth Alliance
یہ عربی زبان میں ایک فلم ہے جو مسئلہ فلسطین کے ایک انتہائی بنیادی پہلو کی عکاسی کرتی ہے۔ یہ 1948ء میں فلسطین پر اسرائیل کے غاصبانہ قبضے کے آغازکی ایک کہانی ہے۔ یہ کہانی اس پورے خطے کے ایک گاؤں میں موجود ایک باپ اور اس کی بیٹی کیRead More The post فلم ری ویو: فرحہ (FARHA) first appeared on Progressive Youth Al...| Progressive Youth Alliance
