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Film Review | In the Tall Grass: Beware the violent vegetation

Written by the father-son horror scribe duo of Stephen King and Joe Hill, this slice of single-setting horror is both an effective and affecting journey into the heart of darkness

Film Review | In the Shadow of the Moon: The murderous churn of time

Boasting a solid core concept but hampered by crummy execution, the latest high-concept offering from the Netflix stable frustrates nearly as much as it satisfies

Film Review | Once Upon a Time in Hollywood: Pure indulgence at its best

For his supposedly penultimate feature, Quentin Tarantino delivers a surprisingly chilled out and cheekily pleasant immersion into the twilight years of...

For his supposedly penultimate feature, Quentin Tarantino...

Film Review | Enter the Anime: No use walking through this door

It may present itself as an eye-opening glimpse into Japanese animation, but...

It may present itself as an eye-opening glimpse into...

Cult filmmaker Jim Jarmusch does not quite scale career-best heights with this smug, post-modern take on the zombie genre, but there’s more than enough...

Cult filmmaker Jim Jarmusch does not quite scale...

Film Review | Spider-Man: Far from home. Spidey does the European Grand Tour

Marvel Studios shakes off the dust that settles after Avengers: Endgame with an only slightly more low-key adventure that shoves Spider-Man way outside the...

Marvel Studios shakes off the dust that settles after...

[WATCH] Filming of German series Das Boot 2 starts at Malta Film Studios

The series' producers said that Malta's climate and the unique water tanks at Malta Film Studios in Kalkara were the reason they had returned to shoot...

The series' producers said that Malta's climate and...

Film Review | For all your ambivalent and trippy summer needs

The Kinemastik Short Film Festival turns fifteen next weekend. Ahead of its...

The Kinemastik Short Film Festival turns fifteen next...

Film Review | Knife+Heart: An irresistibly lurid swerve down giallo lane

Yann Gonzalez orchestrates a seedy-and-saturated trip down ‘giallo’ lane but takes a decidedly queer twist with this explicit downward spiral about...

Yann Gonzalez orchestrates a seedy-and-saturated trip down...

Film Review | Brightburn: The perils of an alien adoption

Superman meets The Omen in this refreshingly dark take on the superhero...

Superman meets The Omen in this refreshingly dark take on...

Film Review | The Swallows of Kabul: Prisons within prisons

Winner of the Valletta Film Festival’s Audience Award, Zabou...

Winner of the Valletta Film Festival’s Audience...

Film Review | The Traitor: Taking refuge in the truth

Closing the Valletta Film Festival in rigorous style, Marco Bellocchio’s...

Closing the Valletta Film Festival in rigorous style, Marco...

Film Review | Portrait of a Lady on Fire: Stifled passions

Winner of both the ‘Queer Palm’ and Best Screenplay award at this...

Winner of both the ‘Queer Palm’ and Best...

Film Review | Beats: (Never) Beaten into submission

Adapting the play of the same name by Kieran Hurley, director Brian Welsh...

Adapting the play of the same name by Kieran Hurley,...

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Actor Idris Elba’s directorial debut can certainly talk the talk as it evokes the jive-and-vibe of Jamaican community in 80s London, but that’s...

Actor Idris Elba’s directorial debut can certainly...

A fictionalised reimagining of the original target audience for the Winnie the Pooh stories, Christopher Robin is a sweet enough confection once it cuts...

A fictionalised reimagining of the original target audience...

It’s time to be slightly apprehensive of the water, as The Meg unleashes the full might of Jason Statham on the summer blockbuster public. Also a giant...

It’s time to be slightly apprehensive of the water,...

A reluctant father-daughter bonding exercise underpins Lauren Miller Rogen’s debut feature, a Netflix exclusive that should have been so more given the...

A reluctant father-daughter bonding exercise underpins...

Director Peyton Reed returns to the offbeat and minor Marvel Studios character in what feels like yet another refreshingly ‘minor’ but nonetheless...

Director Peyton Reed returns to the offbeat and minor...

The politics of fantasy and the radical power of love

The true-story kidnapping and murder of a pre-teen boy by the mafia makes for...

The true-story kidnapping and murder of a pre-teen boy by...