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A portrayal of both growing pleasures and pains based on the Taiwanese illustrated novel of the same name, Starry Starry Night is a movie that will rouse even the hardest of hearts. Tom Shu-Yu Lin complements varied visuals with a carefully chosen soundtrack, rendering his movie a captivating spectacle...

With an attempt to franchise The Dark Tower, Pennywise the clown terrorising audiences in what is set to be film of the year, and Netflix’s attempt to redo cult classic The Mist, it’s been raining Steven King adaptations this year. Seemingly overshadowed its siblings, however, September brought us the...

For a film centred around the untimely demise of one of history’s most notorious dictators, Armando Iannucci’s The Death of Stalin does a surprisingly good job of presenting the violence-ridden power struggle as something of a Shakespearean farce. The story itself is a simple one: a leader dies suddenly,...

Thor, stripped of his famed hammer Mjolnir, finds himself stranded on the edge of the galaxy. There he must assemble a team of fellow heroes to rescue Asgard from the clutches of Hela, goddess of death, and prevent Ragnarok, the annihilation of his home. “The Thor films have, up...

It had everything going for it. And yet, somehow, the movie adaptation of the novel The Mountain Between Us is frustratingly far from a commendable work, even with Golden Globe award winners Kate Winslet and Idris Elba holding it together, and a beautiful mountainous landscape to entice. “Lives will...

Ana Asensio directs, writes and stars in Most Beautiful Island, a story of an immigrant in New York who is risking delving into the mysterious unknown in order to earn money. Warning: spoilers below… “Leave the audience feeling indifferent to the watching of the film” The film opens with shots...

Despite not being a horror or even particularly that dark, Top Knot Detective is perfectly named to have begun the last day of the Mayhem film festival. An Australian-Japanese production, the film is an expertly crafted and hilarious entry into the well-tread mockumentary genre. “The show he created was...