Rating: ★★★★★ Spilt Milk captures the soul of 1980s Dublin with a raw, unflinching honesty. It is a rare film that manages to be both devastatingly bleak and fiercely hopeful, anchored by a story that feels lived-in and deeply authentic. For anyone who lived through the heroin epidemic in inner-city Dublin in the 1980s, this film will ring you right back to the world of the addicts, the pushers and the residents who organised to get the pushers out. The true magic of the fil

Rating: ★★★★★ If you have 18 minutes to spare, Singers (2025) is a masterclass in how to capture the profound within the mundane. Directed by Sam A. Davis and inspired by a 19th-century Russian short story by Ivan Turgenev, this film manages to turn a gritty, smoke-filled dive bar into a cathedral of human emotion. The brilliance of Singers lies in its casting. Davis famously scouted his actors—many of them first-timers—from viral TikTok and YouTube videos. This unconventiona

Rating: ★★★★☆ In the landscape of 2026 cinema, where the "reimagining" has become a tired currency, Maggie Gyllenhaal’s The Bride! arrives not just as a breath of fresh air, but as a primal scream wrapped in lace and leather. Taking the foundational bones of James Whale’s 1935 classic film and transplanting them into a grime-streaked, hyper-stylized 1930s Chicago, Gyllenhaal has crafted something remarkably rare: a big-budget auteur film that feels deeply, almost uncomfortabl