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 […]

Why Cinema Still Matters: Jack Howard on Audiences, Emotion and The Second Time Around

On a rainy night in London, Elle, a waitress in a small cafe, is confronted by a strange older woman in Jack Howard’s new short film The Second Time Around. The film has been receiving rave reviews and whilst it was showing at the Norwich Film Festival, I had the pleasure of chatting to director […]

The Naked Gun

After 31 years, we’re introduced to Detective Frank Drebin’s son, Frank Drebin Jr., as he steps into his father’s famously clumsy shoes to solve a murder case and keep the Police Department from being shut down in The Naked Gun. I have to admit, this was the most fun I’ve had at the cinema in […]

The Minecraft Movie & Nostalgia

The Minecraft movie is better if you’ve played the game — but best if you grew up with it. Since seeing the film on Friday, I have heard the question, ‘Is it actually good, though?’ a lot, which, to be honest, is a difficult one to answer. Firstly, because taste is subjective, and as I’ve […]

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 […]

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 – […]