I don’t normally do this outside of round anniversaries or year-in-review projects as I continue to believe that a listicle is the lowest form of journalism, but I decided to look back upon t…

Johnny Knoxville, now gray-haired and battle-worn, sits in a makeshift electric chair ready to be shocked by someone in the background holding the remote. The premise, I believe, is for Knoxville t…

Much like the Paddington movies, the Toy Story franchise has enjoyed what I can only refer to as a free pass from critics and general audiences alike. Held unanimously as a marvel of feelgood vibes…

The recently released remake of Masters of the Universe—a 1987 cult item based on a Mattel toy line turned into a morning cartoon that loosely tried to hybridize Conan the Barbarian with Star Wars …

Old men rarely make great movies, at least the kinds of great movies that they used to make when their blood ran hotter. It is natural to expect that a filmmaker coming to an end of an illustrious …

I have always kept my thoughts on John Carney right up close to the ones I keep about Cameron Crowe. He makes the kinds of movies that maybe put themselves at a disadvantage by virtue of choosing t…

A story as old as time itself. A boy (Spike Fearn whom you might remember from Alien: Romulus) meets a girl (Sadie Soverall). They hit it off and spend a great evening together. The boy is smitten.…

Admittedly, it is rather tempting to compare the work of Mark Jenkin to Ken Loach and examine it purely on the basis of its thematic proclivities. After all, Jenkin’s lens has remained consistently…

There was a time, a little while ago, when an upcoming Ben Wheatley movie would inspire excitement. This was especially true at the time when his early works like Down Terrace, Kill List, A Field i…

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Bear (Michael Johnston) is hopelessly, irretrievably, pathetically in love with his childhood friend Nikki (Inde Navarrette). She, however, sees him only as a friend and somehow remains completely …

Imagine, if you will, that you are treated to a nice train ride on the Eurostar. Well, it does not have to be the famed metal tube on rails connecting England with France; what matters is that the …

When it comes to the subject of adapting video games for the screen—which I have opined on, written and ranted into a lens about on a number of occasions—the perennial classic series among fighting…

Six years after his last directorial outing (The Dead Don’t Die), Jim Jarmusch has once more come out of hibernation and decided to revisit a storytelling format he has been fond of all throughout …

One of the many minor displeasures and daily inconveniences associated with having to navigate the world of mass layoffs and unemployment is the need to use LinkedIn on a daily basis. In fact, you …

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When Apex opens, you are immediately informed that the movie is a Netflix original. In media res, two people climbing a mountain—that thirty-second hook designed specifically to make sure you would…

I remember vividly the excitement accompanying the months leading to the release of Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace. Fifteen at the time, I was buzzing with anticipation even though the 199…

The word “hokum” is defined as “meaningless nonsense with an outward appearance of being impressive and legitimate.” In the film Hokum, the main character played by Adam Scott uses this word in a c…

The White Ribbon was, I believe, one of my first interactions with Michael Haneke as a filmmaker and—much like Amour—it has taken me a while to come round and understand its import. In fact, I am n…

And just like that, another month has been consigned to history and we are officially a third of the way through 2026. Therefore, let’s have a look at all the activities over at the Uncut Gem…

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The video game upon which Exit 8 is based is nothing but a simple puzzle in which the player walks through an underground tunnel and must either continue on their way if everything is in order or t…

In the summer of 1986, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off was released. Written and directed by John Hughes, this Matthew Broderick-starring hangout instantly grabbed the attention of the masses and climbed …

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Ever since Michael Jackson’s death in 2009 it was a matter of time before a Hollywood studio would greenlight a prestige biopic recounting his life and career. And the minute the Bryan Singer-direc…

After buying a ticket to see Lee Cronin’s The Mummy, waltzing down to your seat popcorn in one hand and an over-sized drink in the other, and then doing your level best not to consume all your snac…

It all starts in a predictably saccharine way. The camera cuts between Charlie (Robert Pattinson) trying to write his wedding speech by bouncing ideas off of his best-man-to-be Mike (Mamoudou Athie…

The image of D-FENS (Michael Douglas), a visibly distraught middle-aged man clad in a white shirt and tie, holding up a wildly misshapen burger and looking at it with disgust became one of the many…

I will watch anything with a shark in it. I watched Jaws for the first time when I was way too young to be watching it and therefore I remain biased this way. In fact, anything that even vaguely qu…

Although The Good Boy premiered slightly earlier at the 2025 TIFF, Jan Komasa’s transition to English-language filmmaking began with Anniversary. This film was shot in 2023, delayed by guild strike…

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One of the many tricks you pick up as a home cook tasked with daily food preparation for the entire family is the philosophy of making the food you make go a little bit further. This encompasses a …

Some movies need that “based on a true story” disclaimer to run at the beginning of the projection because otherwise the audience might not be able to believe a word of what the film is trying to d…

Every now and again the field of the horror genre—typically prone to sustained trends—gets a vitamin booster shot in the form of the occasional gimmick movie that takes audiences by surprise. Some …

“Mom, can we buy Ballerina?” Billy, a hypothetical tween, bleats in the general direction of his primary caregiver while trapped between Blu-Ray shelves at their local HMV (or Barnes & Noble, t…

When The Super Mario Bros Movie came out in 2023 and went on to gross in excess of one billion dollars, its success didn’t look groundbreaking in the least. Perhaps because of its four-quadrant app…

With March officially in the past, spring is now in full effect. It is also as good a time as any to look back at the previous month and round up all activities over at the Uncut Gems Podcast and i…

The most recent sequel in the Scream franchise, Scream 7 directed by Kevin Williamson, has officially crossed 200 million dollars in worldwide box office receipts. This makes it the most successful…

The 2019 Ready or Not ended with Grace (Samara Weaving) limping towards the camera having survived a deadly game of hide and seek, a familial battle royale and a failed satanic ritual. A burning ma…

It has taken me a while, years even, to finally plant my flag on YouTube. At the end of the day, I do have a personal philosophy of doing only what feels right and when it feels right and for the l…

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Believe it or not, Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure came vanishingly close to being dumped onto cable TV instead of being released theatrically. The movie, directed by Stephen Herek and written…

As I was sitting down to write the opening paragraph to whatever this text turns into, I was overwhelmed by a sense of déjà vu, because it seems to me that at least once a fortnight I get to plop d…