The three and a half hour long film is ‘honestly worth it’, writes Deputy Film Editor Aisha Al-Janabi

Ever considered using psychedelic drugs? This film might make you think twice. Alfie Clark reviews Gaspar Noé’s fifth feature film

Catch an ’80s array of cult Japanese sci-fi, horror and action at HOME this October

Grimmfest is returning to Manchester in its 10th year to celebrate independent horror, sci-fi and fantasy films. It takes place on the 4th-7th of October at the Odeon Manchester Great Northern. The festival promises to be a thrilling weekend. Festival coordinators, Simeon Halligan and Rachel Richardson-Jones created Grimmfest 10 years ago to showcase horror films […]

One of the simplest ways to realise what you think about a film is to ask how it made you feel. In the case of this sluggish, ugly, and disassembled product known as the Slender Man movie, I just feel unequivocally angry. At one point during the film, I found myself demanding that it make […]

This week marked the UK release of 2018’s much anticipated film Crazy Rich Asians directed by Jon M. Chu. A young couple, Rachel (Constance Wu) and Nick (Henry Golding), travel to Singapore for a friend’s wedding and to meet Nick’s family, who, unbeknownst to Rachel, are insanely rich and not the most welcoming. Crazy Rich […]

Riveting and enigmatic, Arrival is a wonderful addition to the elite club of sci-fi movies that, though fictitious, have a certain touch of plausibility to it

Coming-of-age flicks are the new ‘post-apocalyptic young adult drama’; they’re everywhere. Skate Kitchen, however, has a lot more going for it than its synopsis suggests. Originally a short film, then a documentary and, finally, a fictional story based on reality, Skate Kitchen is the brainchild of director Crystal Moselle and all-girl, New York-based skate collective […]

To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before is a wonderfully cringe-worthy film and reminiscent of the fleeting yet intense crushes we all have had, and still have. The film, based on the book by Jenny Han, was released on Netflix in August 2018. The film follows a 16-year-old, Lara-Jean, as she tries to navigate the […]

The unmissable hit drama is among the BBC’s recent wave of sublime television-making and features top-rate acting that will keep us gripped to our screens

Let down by its source material, Lyn Greene’s adaptation of Joël Dicker novel La Vérité sur l’Affaire Harry Quebert also fails to inspire, writes Adrian Kanyoli

Shark cliches galore, The Meg is an unfortunate cash grab which is not the blockbuster that the original shark films of the 1970s were, writes James Gill

“The perfect beginning of the end to a decade of film that I and many others hold very dear to our hearts”

Lama Chmayaa offers her verdict on Disney’s latest live action fantasy

Jeremy Dyson and Andy Nyman’s adaptation of their acclaimed stage play is a superbly haunting and unnerving collection of menacing tales

Sebastian Lelio’s Oscar-winning drama is captivating and poignant, writes Gina Agnew

Don’t miss the chance to get involved with this year’s Manchester Lift-Off Film Festival!

From the Edgerton brothers, a hit-and-miss film with a compelling moral message and a very weak plot

A rug that not only tied the room together, but also the narrative

The much-anticipated follow-up to Alex Garland’s directorial debut Ex Machina