The Empire That Ate Cinema: Who Owns the Global Box Office?
Spider-Man: Brand New Day has done something extraordinary. In a little over two months, it has earned more than $2.5 billion worldwide, overtaken Titanic and Ne Zha 2, and climbed to third place on the all-time box-office chart. Only Avengers: Endgame and Avatar remain above...
Short of Style, Starved of Substance in The Uprising – A Review
This review contains minor spoilers. Watching The Uprising, I kept having to ask whether the things making me angry had actually happened. Paul Greengrass’s film spends a long time struggling to make its rebellion compelling, then reaches for events the historical record does not support. Andrew Garfield...
We Bought What They Were Selling, A Defence of Digger – A Review
This review contains no spoilers for Digger (2026). The more volatile the response to Digger became, the more I needed to see it. By opening night, critics and early audiences were calling Iñárritu’s film everything from a masterpiece to an insufferable disaster to the death knell of...
Primetime Doesn’t Hold Back—For Better or Worse – A Review
Primetime is a sleek, uber-entertaining character study about someone who probably shouldn’t have been subjected to such a harsh critique. That’s how I would describe the new, controversial A24 film, starring Robert Pattinson as Chris Hansen and directed by Lance Oppenheim in his first venture...