Ride the Eagle
Ride the Eagle is a pleasant vibey piece of COVID filmmaking that never quite manages to become an interesting, affecting, or all that funny narrative film.
Category: Reviews
Freakscene: The Story of Dinosaur Jr.
Freakscene is little more than a curio for both Dinosaur Jr. fans and the non-converted.
Live Review: beabadoobee – Beckett Student’s Union, Leeds [9th September 2021]
beabadoobee returns to the live stage with confidence, purpose, and a feverish crowd.
The Nest
Sean Durkin’s long-gestating follow-up to Martha Marcy May Marlene is a more straightforward but still engrossing actors’ showcase.
The Suicide Squad
James Gunn made a mega-budget Troma film and the result may be the best DC movie ever.
Black Widow
Unsurprisingly, Black Widow is another very good Marvel movie, albeit a frustratingly compromised one.
Mythic Quest Season 2
Bitterly funny and bitingly insightful with one of TV’s best current ensembles, Mythic Quest’s second season sees the show continuing to richly mature into itself.
Sweat
Sweat is an affecting and empathetic portrayal of loneliness in the social media age, albeit one which stumbles when applying that same eye towards stalking.
Shiva Baby
Emma Seligman’s feature debut is a near-essential carefully-observed cringe-fest of the highest order.
Wolf Alice – Blue Weekend
Britain’s best band are braver, bolder and even better on a third LP only held back by uneven sequencing.
Callie Petch 