A Fistful of Scrolls

Sinners (2025), directed by Ryan Coogler, is a richly realised period piece which revels in the themes of vampire horror and digs deep into its setting in the 1932 Mississippi Delta.

Context note: between watching Project Hail Mary and publishing this review of it, I read the novel it was adapted from.

2021’s Nobody is a candy bar action flick of the highest order.

If you’re in the mood for an action film with asymmetrical violence and you’re willing to put up with American military propaganda, War Machine (2026) will fit the bill.

28 Years Later: The Bone Temple is a 2026 horror film which follows on directly from 28 Years Later.

Escape from Pretoria is a 2020 film directed by Francis Annan detailing the breakout of three political prisoners in 1979 apartheid South Africa.

This isn't really a review, as Grave of the Fireflies is a film so intensely sad that I find it hard to approach critically.

This is a review of the first omnibus compiling Chip Zdarsky’s run of Daredevil from 2019 to 2023.

The Northman, released in 2022, was Robert Eggers' third stint in the director's chair for a feature film.

One Way (2018) and No Way (2019) comprise a near future sci-fi duology written by S.

The Witch, stylised as "The VVitch", is a 2015 film directed by Robert Eggers.

This is a brief review of Oppenheimer, a film directed by Christopher Nolan and released in 2023.

This is a very brief review of Trainspotting, the debut novel by Irvine Welsh published in 1993.