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. […]

Sentimental Value

How do existing familial bonds shape us as humans? This is the question Sentimental Value sets out to explore. When sisters Nora (Renate Reinsve) and Agnes (Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas) lose their mother, they come face to face with their estranged father, Gustav (Stellan Skarsgård). As a filmmaker, Gustav reveals to Nora he has written a […]

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

‘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 readers […]

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 […]

Autumn

Autumn captures a family’s coming-of-age journey through a series of poignant snapshots, each framed around the eldest son’s visits home after leaving to study abroad. Speaking on the film, director António Sequeira said, “Growing up in the countryside of Portugal, I witnessed firsthand the struggles of its people, who often feel left behind in an […]

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 […]

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 […]

All Of Us Strangers

‘One night in his near-empty London tower block, screenwriter Adam has a chance encounter with mysterious neighbour Harry, puncturing the rhythm of his everyday life. As a relationship develops between them, Adam finds himself drawn back to his childhood home, where his parents appear to be living just as they were on the day they […]

My Top 10 of 2023… so far

It’s been two weeks since we rang in the new year yet there are still a lot of 2023 releases I haven’t gotten around to seeing yet as they haven’t been released in the UK yet or haven’t become available to watch, however, I thought it would be fun to summarise my top 10 2023 […]

anyone but you

Often I find it can be hard to get a romcom right – but Anyone But You didn’t have that struggle. At the end of the day, the romantic comedy genre isn’t groundbreaking, but it’s fun! and this film was exactly that. Not only did I enjoy it but I’m pretty sure everyone in the […]