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Time to Delete the Apps: The Social Reckoning Exposes Facebook’s Machine, Flaws and All
Rating: ★★★☆☆ Sixteen years after The Social Network defined the dawn of our hyper-connected alienation, Aaron Sorkin has returned to the digital empire he helped mythologise. But where David Fincher’s 2010 masterpiece hummed with icy, prophetic paranoia, The Social Reckoning arrives carrying the exhausted baggage of a society that already knows it is being poisoned. Sorkin, stepping behind the camera as both writer and director, delivers an urgent, crackling, yet frequently

Denise Breen
2 hours ago3 min read


How I Learned to stop laughing: "Digger" reinvents Dr. Strangelove for the climate crisis
Rating: ★★★½☆ (3.5 / 5) Set in an uneasy, plausible near future, Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s Digger takes aim squarely at corporate hubris and impending ecological collapse. At its core, the film is driven by an urgent environmental theme, tracking the frantic ripple effects when unchecked industrial ambition triggers a catastrophic crisis. Yet rather than delivering standard Hollywood disaster spectacle, the film frames its planetary reckoning through an audacious, surrealist le

Denise Breen
Oct 42 min read


Fiction, fabrications, and fatal flaws: Hartnett shines while Johnson stumbles in the thriller Verity
Rating: ★★★☆☆ (3 / 5) Directed by: Michael Showalter Starring: Dakota Johnson, Josh Hartnett, Anne Hathaway, Ismael Cruz Córdova Running time: 114 minutes Adapted from Colleen Hoover’s runaway 2018 publishing phenomenon, Verity arrives in cinemas bearing all the hallmarks of a vintage 1990s erotic thriller: isolated mansions, domestic secrets, passion, and a third act that deliberately pulls the rug out from beneath the audience’s feet. In the hands of director Michael Showal

Denise Breen
Oct 43 min read
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