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The Anvil Strikes Back: Coyote vs Acme is Warner Bros.' Best Mistake
Verdict: ★★★☆☆ (3/5 Stars) If your childhood Saturday mornings were spent glued to the television waiting for an anvil to drop or a painted tunnel on a canyon wall to suddenly turn into solid rock, Coyote vs. Acme will hit you straight in the nostalgia. It is an affectionate, joke-dense love letter to classic Chuck Jones animation that treats its source material with genuine reverence. The film is packed to the brim with sharp inside jokes, visual gags, and background Easter

Denise Breen
18 hours ago2 min read


The Last House (Netflix) is a great concept if you like the baffingly absurd.
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐ Netflix’s sci-fi thriller The Last House starts with a delightfully chilling hook: A family in Seattle returns indoors during a rainstorm, only to discover that the doors and windows have mysteriously become unopenable, sealed shut by malevolent, water-controlling forces. While the film suffers from severe pacing issues and narrative whiplash, it earns an extra star for sheer audacity, strong lead performances, and a surprisingly entertaining pivot into genre chao

Denise Breen
Aug 182 min read


Suburban Stumbles: The End of Oak Street Review
★★☆☆☆ There is a distinct difference between paying homage to a master of cinema and simply raiding his recycling bin. Unfortunately, David Robert Mitchell’s The End of Oak Street lands firmly in the latter category. Billed as a high-concept sci-fi survival romp about an entire 1980s neighbourhood mysteriously transplanted into a prehistoric jungle, the film feels less like an inspired original vision and more like a cheap, low-calorie Steven Spielberg imitation complete with

Denise Breen
Aug 152 min read
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