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Review: Office Romance (2026)

June 6, 2026 Sabrina Mittermeier Comments Off

The biggest issue with Office Romance is that its writers know romcoms too well. Brett Goldstein and Joe Kelly worked together on Ted Lasso, a show that already proved that they know how to pay

Review: All of You (2025)

September 30, 2025 Sabrina Mittermeier Comments Off

All of You is a romance movie, and so it is made to destroy you. Everything about it screams that there isn’t going to be a happy ending to this one, and yet you stick

Time Travel is Dangerous review

March 26, 2025 Andrew Moir Comments Off

Time Travel is Dangerous is a British comedy mockumentary that follows Megan (Megan Stevenson) and Ruth (Ruth Syratt), drifter best friends who discover a time machine shaped like a dodgem car while bin diving…

Tornado review – Glasgow Film Festival 2025

February 26, 2025 Iain Hepburn Comments Off

Revenge, it turns out, is a dish beta served cold. At least it is in former Beta Band member turned director John Maclean’s new film Tornado…

The Present review

May 22, 2024 Andrew Moir Comments Off

The Present, from director Christian Ditter (How to Be Single), tells the story of three children trying to save their parents’ marriage with the help of a magic clock inherited from their grandfather. The clock

Bleeding Love review

April 11, 2024 Andrew Moir Comments Off

In Bleeding Love, from director Emma Westenberg, the open road has never felt more awkward.

A Super Late Review of SuperBob (2015)

January 20, 2023 Sabrina Mittermeier Comments Off

SuperBob is a superhero dramedy from 2015, directed by Jon Drever and written by Brett Goldstein and Will Bridges, also starring Goldstein as the titular character. You may be asking why I am only reviewing

No, your favourite Star Wars film is not underrated

April 9, 2022 Andrew Moir Comments Off

Rogue One was trending recently. This is probably an evergreen statement. Rogue One trends every 15 days or so. And while James Gunn’s tweet wasn’t the cause of the trend (no one ever knows the

Exploring the themes of The Mighty Ducks

March 29, 2021 Andrew Moir Comments Off

The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers, has arrived on Disney+. It’s a continuation of The Mighty Ducks and its two sequels which were solid hits for Disney during the early to mid-nineties. And despite the passage

Pleasantville: Exploring fandom through the conventions of 1950s sitcom

January 22, 2021 Andrew Moir Comments Off

While Marvel’s first Disney+ show WandaVision is currently delving into the conventions of sitcoms past, now seems the perfect time to take a look back at Gary Ross’ wonderful 1998 film Pleasantville.