The Brutalist

The idea of going to see a 3h 35m film in the cinema is slightly daunting, we are accustomed to being comfortable and shorter films play into it, with even films clocking in at over 2 hours feeling long sometimes. But the first time I watched the teaser trailer for The Brutalist, I was enthralled, […]

i didn’t love babygirl

Director Halina Reijn’s ‘Babygirl’ was released in UK cinemas on the 10th of January, and like many, I was excited to see it. The film had been released earlier in America so I had already seen a lot of hype surrounding the film, plus it had an interesting concept so I had already gotten my […]

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 […]

A Different Man

Perhaps any potential risk is worth the reward? ‘A Different Man’ discusses the lengths we would go to, to become ‘conventionally attractive’ but also that what we consider ‘better’ is not always what it seems. I had to sit on this film for a few days – I think it began brilliantly, Sebastian Stan makes […]

Megalopolis

It’s very rare for me to see a film on Letterboxd that has my friends so completely divided, the range of friends ratings goes from 0.5 stars up to 4.5 out of 5. The wild variety of ratings and reviews made me realise this was a film I had to go and make up my […]

The Outun

‘The Outrun’ is a complex yet beautiful adaptation of Amy Liptrot’s memoir by the same name. Unlike many stories portraying the battles of addiction in a linear fashion, the film shows it exactly as it is, not only how it affects Rona, the protagonist of the story, but also those around her – this is […]

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 […]

Mean Girls and Musical Marketing

‘Was it actually good? I’ve heard it’s really bad’ is the response I get every time I mention I’ve seen the new Mean Girls film and every time I answer saying I loved the musical so of course I would enjoy this! The problem is… a lot of people don’t like musicals. If you have […]

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 […]