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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
3 hours ago2 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
3 hours ago3 min read


Zombies, Puppets, and Time-Loops - Oh My!: A Review of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 4
There is a distinct kind of whiplash that comes with watching modern Star Trek. One week, you are looking down the barrel of a universe-shattering temporal crisis, and the next, your captain is navigating a high-stakes dramatic narrative that feels entirely unanchored from traditional sci-fi stakes. Star Trek: Strange New Worlds has always worn its theatrical heart on its sleeve, leaning hard into the episodic anthology ethos of the 1960s original series while adding a glossy

Denise Breen
Sep 254 min read
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