Tag: reviews
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Wild Horse Nine (2026)
In the early ’70s, two American spies who’ve just helped seed a coup against a country’s left-wing president travel to Easter Island for a week’s holiday, “to see the big heads”. Out of Lee Chesterfield (Sam Rockwell) and the elderly Charlie Carlisle (John Malkovich), however, one is preparing to meet his maker. And is writing…
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Primetime (2026)
‘I don’t want to be a bad person.’ This cry from a young man’s wounded heart sits at the core of Primetime, an intriguing dark dramedy about predation, ambition, and exploitation. Part of what interested me was the depiction of the economics and changing face of entertainment in the early 2000s. The ‘00s were a…
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Clayface (2026)
Hunky actor Matt Hagen (Tom Rhys Harries) has crawled out of Gotham’s most deprived district to become a movie star with best friend Cory Bowers (Joshua James). A night on the town leads to tragedy, however, when he lets himself be seduced by a gangster’s moll, Mia Torrez (Joana Ribeiro). The morning after, he’s disfigured…
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Nightborn (2026)
The English-language debut of Finnish director Hanna Bergholm, co-written with Ilja Rautsi, Nightborn stars Seidi Haarla and Rupert Grint. They play, respectively, Saga and Jon; she is the daughter of a jet-setting doctor mother (Pirkko Saisio), and he is the son of a vicar (John Thomson, an English comedy star, here in a straight dramatic…
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The Coffee Table (2022)
A husband, Jesus (pronounced Hey-Zeus, played by David Pareja), and wife, Maria (Estefanía de los Santos), with their newborn baby, are looking to buy a coffee table. The table is composed of two nude women in faux-gold trim supporting a glass top. Clearly, it belongs in a bachelor pad as opposed to a young couple’s…
