Project Hail Mary

☆☆☆☆☆ As Nicole Kidman once said, “We come to this place for magic”, and that is exactly what watching Project Hail Mary felt like. Based on the 2021 science fiction novel by Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary follows the story of American scientist Ryland Grace (Ryan Gosling), as he wakes up alone on an interstellar […]

11 Films to keep on your radar in 2026

2025 was an incredible year for film, with brilliant originals like Sinners, Sentimental Value and Marty Supreme, alongside adaptations such as Hamnet, One Battle After Another and Bugonia – we were truly spoilt for choice. But 2026 may be set to take cinema to the next level, with some truly insane releases on the horizon. […]

Big Screen Drama: How The Housemaid Translates from Page to Screen

☆☆☆½ ‘That didn’t happen in the book’. It’s the phrase that haunts every book-to-screen adaptation – and The Housemaid practically invites it. Whilst changes are inevitable (and often welcome), Paul Feig’s take had me saying it far more than usual. Adapted from the 2022 novel of the same name by Freida McFadden, The Housemaid had […]

10 Films to Warm your Winter Nights

It’s cold outside, the evenings are drawing in, and the Christmas decorations are up. All that’s left to do is decide which film to put on! Here are 10 perfect picks to curl up with and enjoy this December. 1. Little Women (2019) Dir. Greta Gerwig One of many adaptations of Louisa May Alcott’s beloved […]

2024 in review

It’s been a little while! I haven’t been very active on this blog and I could give a tonne of excuses as to why but I hope to do better this year, so before I start this new year in film with reviews etc. I thought I could summarise my 2024 in film! Despite finishing […]

Futures in Film

From a fairly young age, I knew that I wanted to work in film, but I didn’t know how I would manage that. Although I dabbled in drama at school, I definitely was not an actor, although directing seemed cool it wasn’t for me, and I could not manage the post-production side – so I […]

The Oscar’s Best Pictures ranked

Every year I set myself the goal of watching every nomination in the Best Picture category for the Oscars and every year I fail…. Until this year! One of the reasons I usually don’t succeed is likely because I hadn’t been open-minded enough to try films I wouldn’t usually see but last year when I […]

My Year In Cinema

2023 was the year I finally decided to invest in an Unlimited cinema pass (thanks Cineworld), it’s something I had wanted to do for years and I finally decided to when I saw how many films I wanted to see were coming out this year – this is not an ad but honestly it is […]