The Drama

☆☆☆☆½ What wedding doesn’t come with a little bit of drama? Certainly not Charlie and Emma’s in Kristoffer Borgli’s The Drama. Charlie (Robert Pattinson) and Emma (Zendaya) seem like the perfect couple. Their meet-cute may have been awkward, but it was undeniably wholesome; they have a tight-knit group of friends and a wedding just around […]

Holly Janem on navigating grief in Language of Life

Written and directed by Holly Janem, Language of Life is a tender short film set in the stillness of a quiet graveyard, where an unexpected bond forms between two women at opposite ends of life. Through a conversation that transcends age and experience, the film delicately explores the complexities of grief. I had the chance […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Saltburn

I can’t lie, I was terrified to watch Saltburn – I had heard a very mixed bunch of reviews calling the film messed up and super weird and whilst it was incredibly weird it was also wonderful. I’ve been reflecting on the film for a few days and whilst narratively it is not perfect – […]