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Challengers - Feels like its been a minute that we've seen a studio film that mixes sexy with a compelling drama/characters. The odd occasion we've seen it before, usually only manages the former. The transfixing back and forth between this complicated love triangle that mimics the tension of a...

Yeah, give me the chaos. Felt like it's been a minute since we've seen a tribal that 'spicy'. Wonder how long Kenzie's move on Tiff gets back to her. Tiff did play her idol news brilliantly. Hunter meanwhile...he really was an Ozzy lite, right down to the lack of strategic nous. But hell...

Feels like I'm watching bizzaro Survivor. Dunno if I think it's good or bad, just weird.

Civil War - Looking at this film from a purely popcorn, entertainment value - it’s a great achievement. As good a piece of filmmaking Garland has ever done. Harrowing, tense, kind of everything you want in an action thriller without the over the top stuff. Trying to unpack what it’s trying to...

Comparisons to GoT, Succession are all apt. But I get the biggest throwback to Mad Men. Just people in rooms talking. Masterful s**t.

Love Lies Bleeding - Liked Rose Glass' follow up to Saint Maud quite a bit. Complete with several holy s**t moments, body horror, an ending that just goes for it and Kristen Stewart being Kristen Stewart. Katy O'Brien and Ed Harris are the standouts. Clears Drive-Away Dolls for lesbian capers to...

Shogun hooked me from the jump and is, almost unbelievably, getting better with every passing episode. Masterfully told. Over taken Mr. and Mrs. Smith as my favourite show so of the year so far. Fair to be a little weary about 3 Body Problem going in, given this is Benioff & Weiss' first...

Mostly chalk, which I don't mind because I think all are mostly deserved. Stone over Gladstone is the interesting one. Will need to revisit Poor Things as it's a film I liked a fair bit, but wouldn't necessarily say I loved. Covered some of the same terrain as Dogtooth, which I still rate as...

American Fiction - At times a cutting satire on the literature industry and popularity, and at others a family drama on loss in its many forms. Which is to say both stories work, and could stand alone on it's own, but together in a single film...it probably bites off more than it chew. Still...

Pretty nearly flawless execution. Maybe the tighter story of Part One has me rating that a little higher, but there isn't anything in Part Two that didn't really work for me. Keen to see them both back to back. Timmy rose to the occasion. Dunno if you could cast again that he's the automatic...

I don't think the True Detective call outs were anything more than easter eggs, a loose way of showing a connection (and bring people in), but ultimately irrelevant to the telling of the story. It had more in common with something like The Outsider than season 1 of True D. Not everything...

Mr. & Mrs. Smith... as close to a perfect season of television as you could possibly get. The ex-Atlanta brains trust of Glover, Hiro Murai and Francesca Sloane just knocked this out of the park with style, wit, a rotating cast of amazing guest performances, and an impeccable brand of...

Got around to finishing 'The Great'. Watched the first season when it came out and liked it a lot, but hadn't touched the second, and what ultimately became the third and final until now. Honestly, a fantastic show. At times Succession-esque with more bloodlust and *******, with one particular...

The Iron Claw - I feel like there would've been a difference had I not known anything about the Von Erich's before going in. Because I had, there's a part of watching it that feels like you're just waiting for the second act to hit, which might be why I'm bumping against it a little. Undoubtedly...

Finale slaps so hard. 30 minutes of the most effective I've seen in a while too. Not really reading any interpretation of it unless it comes from Fielder or Safdie, because I don't think anything could really satisfy me...aside from the most show literal explanation . And just quietly rating...

Issa Lopez knows what's up. Haven't seen any of her work before, but the handle on displayed in one episode is super impressive. Already feel invested in the Danvers and Navarro characters as much as the mystery. Looks and feels the part too.

Pain and Glory - Antonio Banderas plays a retired movie director looking back at his life and his work, whilst being crippled with various ailments and his own future. Have not seen any of director Pedro Almodóvar's films, but will make a point to. A quietly brilliant Banderas performance, and...

Unequivocally a great year in film. And probably the first time in a long time where it had a better batting average than TV. Like I get slim pickings if you're only going off what's gets advertised nationally and plays at non-independents (and not across what gets put up on streaming here and...

Game was won as soon as the lead in to that first tribal had Jake and Katurah saying they were voting Dee, just knew it wasn't going to happen. Katurah sabotaging her own plan is just an all-time facepalm moment, but it really says more about how no one outside the Reba 4 could coalesce to...

Napoleon - A different film to what I was expecting, more concerned with Bonaparte's domestic situation than his battle exploits. Seemingly because they wanted to show how the former contributed to the latter, but never really lands. Perhaps needs that 4-hour cut sooner rather than later. I am...

Unironically loved Bruce by the end of it. Pretty much the exact type of player that the show needs more of. Surprised me with the KIP lie, which I think is actually kinda brilliant, if just poorly executed with the fake out. Emily is miles ahead with her relationship building. In the box...

Was playing last Sunday at a few theatres. Don't think it's due for wide release till next year.

The Zone of Interest - Jonathan Glazer's fourth feature film might be one of the most horrifying portraits of domestic drama I've ever seen. There's evil steeped in every frame and none at all. The score, sparsely used only to be a terrifying reminder. A wholly one of one kind of film that...

Killers of the Flower Moon - Felt like I had a number of out-of-body experiences, watching this. A few scenes where the images on screen, hit me like a tidal wave. And these weren't scenes of violence or sharp dialogue, they were mostly filled with nothing but the sounds of the score (Silence...

In fairness, this one came out of nowhere. He seemed like a pretty normal Survivor player, and I'm not really sure he even knew what he was giving up. Like I don't even think he'll see his partner for some weeks yet?? Jeff needs to bring back shaming. But I am liking the series so far. Longer...

About halfway through, and its been pretty good. Boyd Holbrook's having a lot of fun, loving Aunjanue Ellis too. Both are great foils for Raylan. But yeah, the daughter stuff is rough. Feels different to Justified - but I think I could watch Olyphant play this character in anything and still...

Only show to give you every single human emotion in 30 minutes.

Has a case to be declared Nolan's best work. I unabashedly love Interstellar and TDK remains the personal favourite, but this feels like the culmination of what he's been building towards since basically The Prestige. Technically, another brilliant achievement, but he extends himself here with...

Barbie - I give Gerwig a lot of credit for justifying the existence of a Barbie film. It's funny, it has very unique and distinct style. I enjoyed the meta-commentary of it all, and I think Margot and Gosling are perfect. I think it does though bite off more than it can chew, and try and be...

The new take of Dead Ringers starring Rachel Weisz is as gnarly and ****ed and unpleasant (in a good way) as the Cronenberg film. Weisz playing twin gynecologists that are wrapped up in their co-dependency whilst trying to build a birthing center that pushes the boundaries of childbirth...