Cinema The Wonder Review: A Captivating Mystical Period Piece
Florence Pugh stars in The Wonder, Sebastian Lelio’s suspenseful psychological period thriller about faith, family, love and reason. Our review…
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Cinema Black Panther: Wakanda Forever Review: A Stirring Tribute to the Late Chadwick Boseman
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever respectfully pays tribute to Chadwick Boseman’s legacy and blurs the line between reality and fantasy by exploring the impact of grief on its characters.
Books Celestial review: Red moon rising
A mysterious hatch has been discovered on the moon in alt 1977. Will it end a conflict or start another one? Here’s our review of M.D. Lachlan’s Celestial…
Cinema Barbarian Review: Zach Cregger’s housebound shocker is a fantastically twisty tale
Zach Cregger’s (mostly) housebound shocker is a twisty tale of urban and domestic degeneration, and of perverse patriarchy’s horrific legacy
Cinema Black Adam: Big Blast, Low Yield
Another minor comic book character becomes a major star-driven motion picture. He flies, but does he soar? He packs punches, but do any of them land? Here is our review…
Cinema Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio Review: An Exquisitely Crafted Dark Fairy-Tale
Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio delivers unexpected thrills, laughs and emotional depth. Our review…
TV Vampire Academy Review: The Vampire Diaries meets Game of Thrones
Vampire royalty are guarded by half humans as they navigate changing political forces and the threat of their evil counterparts in Sky series Vampire Academy. Our review…
TV White Noise Review: Gloriously Surreal
Noah Baumbach blends satire, Hollywood disaster movie and thriller in White Noise. Our review…
Cinema Roald Dahl’s Matilda The Musical Review: A Rousingly Revolting Musical
From the same creative team behind the multi-award-winning stage musical, here is our review of Roald Dahl’s Matilda The Musical…
Cinema Thor: Love and Thunder Review: Welcome to the jungle!
Natalie Portman and Chris Hemsworth deliver the heart in Taika Waititi’s effervescent neon-tinged world in Thor: Love And Thunder. Here is the SciFiNow review…
Cinema Smile Review: Scares, but no surprises
There’s something terrifying about a mirthless smile – but is that enough to build a whole horror film around? Here is our review…
Cinema Don’t Worry Darling Review: Olivia Wilde’s sci-fi thriller goes in one obvious direction
We review Olivia Wilde’s glossy, high-concept sci-fi thriller Don’t Worry Darling.
Cinema Strawberry Mansion Review: Charmingly mannered odyssey into the unconscious
In Kentucker Audley and Albert Birney’s surreal lo-fi sci-fi psychodrama, a dull bureaucrat finds the girl of his dreams and his own imaginative escapism.
Books Ricky’s Hand Review: Knuckle Shuffle
Writer David Quantick exchanges political comedy with exploring the funny side of body-horror-sci-fi in Ricky’s Hand.
Books Lost In Time Review: Dino-mite
A.G Riddle’s Lost In Time has delicious twists a-plenty in this time-travelling whodunnit with dinosaurs. Here’s our review…
Cinema Crimes of the Future Review: Long Live the New, New Flesh
David Cronenberg returns to body horror with Crimes Of The Future. Here’s our review…
Cinema Bodies Bodies Bodies Review: Wickedly Funny Horror Comedy
A hurricane party turns deadly in the wickedly funny whodunit Bodies Bodies Bodies. Here is our review…
TV The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power Review: A Sumptuously Realised Fantasy Show
We review episodes one and two of The Lord Of The Rings: The Rings Of Power…
Fall Review: Frightfest 2022
Scott Mann’s survival thriller is an acrophobic, anxiety-inducing ascent to the peak of a traumatised woman’s cathartic panic…
Burial Review: Frightfest 2022
Ben Parker’s end-of-war movie casts a jaded eye over the emptiness of secrets, the banality of evil and the eternal return of history.