• Get Out (2018)

    Rating: 5/5 Horror, Mystery, Thriller SPOILERS, Please do not read if you’re avoiding spoilers. I haven’t spoiled everything but there is one major spoiler. SPOILER. Jordan Peele’s directorial debut is excellent. Get Out is a horror/thriller/spoof (slash comedy?? according to the Golden Globes) that follows…

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  • Rating: 4.5/5 Action, Adventure, Comedy One of many female-centred films that came out last year, The Spy Who Dumped Me is a new twist on the genre. Audrey (Mila Kunis) and Morgan (Kate McKinnon) are unwilling participants who have to deliver a plastic trophy on…

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  • Rating: 2.5/5 Comedy, Romance, Drama This is one romcom that I’ve never fully come around to. While Drew Barrymore is, as always, delightful to watch, Never Been Kissed has not aged well. In all honestly, i’m not sure why it’s remembered as fondly in the…

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  • Rating: 3.8 Drama, Romance There is probably only one way you heard of this and that is about how critically panned this film was. It’s the curse of Shakespeare adaptations, nobody is ever quite happy with it. But this film isn’t actually that terrible. It’s…

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  • Rating: 3.5 stars Comedy, Drama, Romance Where do I start with this? The Big Sick is an Amazon Original film, and features Kumail Nanjiani and Zoe Kazan in the lead roles. It’s a love story that is strongly inspired by real life events – writers…

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  • Rating: 5 stars. Animation, Action, Adventure I’m not gonna lie, I wasn’t interested in this when I saw the posters for it because I was under the impression it was aimed at preteens. It was only when Spiderverse won at the Golden Globes (yay, best…

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  • Rating 5/5 Drama, Thriller My first post during Halloween season! Black Swan is a modern classic and has been one of my favourites for a very long time and so, this review will mainly be me listing why I love it so much. Natalie Portman…

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  • Rating 5/5 Comedy, Romance Easily the most anticipated movie of the year, Crazy Rich Asians has done a brilliant job in all regards. First of all, congratulations to Crazy Rich Asians on being one of the first Hollywood movies to have an all-Asian cast! And, the…

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  • 2 stars Romantic Comedy Home Again was advertised as a modern rom-com, one where a single mum, played by Reese Witherspoon, has just turned 40 and has a romantic relationship with someone who is 15 years her junior (Pico Alexander). When I decided to watch…

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  • 2.5 stars Drama, Romance, War I have to admit, I don’t think I would have watched this if it hadn’t been for a quote from the novel it’s based on. The quote is as follows, in case you were wondering, “They felt a strange happiness,…

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