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Instagram post: https://www.instagram.com/p/DWtfIKdDR6e/?igsh=enZoZXIydXhyZGFn This 2005 supernatural thriller, directed by Walter Salles, is one of those random American horror films that has been sat on my Disney Plus watchlist for some time, waiting for a rainy day, so-to-speak. It has pretty mediocre reviews, but sometimes, when I just want something easy to watch, that really doesn't matter to me. I realised after I had already started it that it was in fact an American

Instagram post: https://www.instagram.com/p/DWrE9xdjYcZ/?igsh=MWdzYjR6bWk0M3U3YQ== This Brazilian crime comedy, from director Kleber Mendonça Filho, aroused my attention after its popular debut at the esteemed Cannes Film Festival , winning multiple awards, and then even more so after it received multiple Oscar nominations, including 'Best Picture' and 'Actor In A Leading Role' . Even with my anticipation for the film, I deliberately didn't look up much about the film, inste

Instagram post: https://www.instagram.com/p/DWgvRVYArX8/?igsh=MWEybDYycHMyengyZw== This 1987 fantasy romance film, directed by Rob Reiner, and based on the cult novel by William Goldman, has been one of my favourite films since I was a child. My siblings and I would quote and re-quote it endlessly to each other, and we must have watched it tens of times growing up. It had, however, been far, far, too long since I had watched this 80's classic, and I wanted to make the effort

Instagram post: https://www.instagram.com/p/DWeCaZdjTwS/?igsh=a3V6NXYxY3J6NXZp The idea of a contemporary adaptation of William Shakespeare's iconic play, directed by Aniel Karia, and starring Riz Ahmed, appealed to me greatly, particularly because it had a unique South Asian slant on its depiction of the classic tragedy. It's not too often that you get such a fresh take on such a well-known and adapted work of media. I was very excited to see how Karia would execute it. My f

Instagram post: https://www.instagram.com/p/DWbwIpljQfA/?igsh=amt0Zm1pODNqa2Ux There is a long, virtually inexhaustible, list of films from my childhood that I want to rewatch, and, oddly enough, the sequel to this 2004 adventure film is on that list, but this one isn't. The reason for that is simply that I never watched this first film growing up - it had a '12' age rating. Both films were directed by Jon Turteltaub, perhaps best known for 'The Meg' these days, and feel l

Instagram post: https://www.instagram.com/p/DWY4j91DcYx/?igsh=MW8zcG9seXh0ZGNucQ== Of the many films that I enviably did not have time to see at the cinema this year, this shark-related horror, directed by Sean Byrne, was one of the ones that I was most intrigued by. The notion of a shark-based horror film sounded very exciting to me, and, if done right, it could have been a scintillating and frightening thriller, but, unfortunately, as I would come to find out, this was all