REVIEW: Pray Away (2021)
Hopefully you are lucky enough never to have encountered conversion therapy in real life. However you might have seen it depicted on screen as it’s been the subject of several queer films over the years. Jamie Babbit’s late nineties rom-com But I’m a Cheerleader takes…
REVIEW: Jungle Cruise (2021)
As one ride ends, another begins. It might be the cousin wanting to line up for the Mad Tea Party after disembarking Splash Mountain. Or, in this case, it might be Disney handing its flagship action-adventure attraction-based baton from Pirates of the Caribbean to Jungle…
TV REVIEW: Kingdom – Ashin of the North (2021)
It’s not only the undead populating Kingdom’s Joseon who have a craving for blood and guts. For two seasons now, members of the Haewon Cho clan have proven themselves to be the scarier ghouls — also drawn to carnage, but never thoughtlessly or rampantly. Just…
INTERVIEW: ‘Falcon & the Winter Soldier’ Composer Henry Jackman
Following on from the success of the Marvel Disney Plus show The Falcon And Winter Soldier, JumpCut are delighted to speak with composer Henry Jackman about his career to date and what it was like to revisit these characters and themes following his scores for…
TV REVIEW: Ted Lasso Season 2 Episode 1 (2021)
Season 1 of Ted Lasso could not have come at a more perfect time because it has helped us through lockdowns and beyond, with many people re-watching it countless times, for Ted’s biscuits are the ultimate in comfort food. Season 2 has fairly swiftly followed,…
REVIEW: The 8th Night (2021)
It’s The Exorcist, yet a Buddhist monk is in place of a Catholic priest. A Black Eye of anxiety and a Red Eye of anger are collectively the engineer of global-scale chaos this time, not Pazuzu. One film is adapted from a best-selling novel, the…
REVIEW: Black Widow (2021)
The long-anticipated Natasha Romanoff origin story arrives burdened with glorious purpose. Delayed multiple times since its intended May 2020 release date due to the pandemic that shall not be named, acceptable arguments from many that a solo film for one of Marvel’s longest running characters…
REVIEW: The Tomorrow War (2021)
Throw time travel into a story, and you better either play things brain-achingly smart, or so unashamedly daft that it’s almost too fun to stop and compare notes. The Tomorrow War, somehow manages to sit comfortably in the middle of this Venn diagram shaped like…
TV REVIEW: Loki Episodes 3-4 (2021)
After getting very worried that Loki had jumped the shark in Episode 3, it’s with great relief that I can report that Episode 4 brings it fully back on track and we can now excitedly look forward to seeing how things will wrap up in…
INTERVIEW: ‘False Positive’ Writer-Director John Lee
The complicated nature of pregnancy and gaslighting play a big part in Hulu and A24’s atmospheric horror False Positive. Directed by John Lee and co-written by Ilana Glazer and Lee himself, the movie tells the story of a wife named Lucy (Glazer) whose dream to…
REVIEW: False Positive (2021)
It’s almost impossible to not associate Ilana Glazer with the slacker, New York sitcom Broad City — a show which she created with her best friend Abbi Jacobson. But in A24 and Hulu’s atmospheric horror False Positive, the actor-writer proves that she’s not just a…
REVIEW: Luca (2021)
The eighth of March 2020 is a day that lives in my own personal infamy – I went to the cinema and watched two movies – the Sad-Dad Ben Affleck opus The Way Back (and what a year he’s had since) and Pixar’s Onward. A…
REVIEW: Wish Dragon (2021)
You will hear a little voice going “it’s Genie, but now he’s Long” throughout Wish Dragon, the second of three Sony Pictures Animation’s works with rights reported to have been bought by Netflix during the pandemic (the others are The Mitchells vs. The Machines and…
