Dear You (2026) - Film Review - flickfeast

The latest Chinese family drama by Lan Hongchun, Dear You, is a rarity in contemporary cinema. A low-budget production featuring a mostly first-time cast, it is filmed in the Teochew dialect, which or...

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The Furious (2025) - Film Review - flickfeast

Starting out in the 1993 TV adaptation of Bruce Lee’s Fist of Fury starring Donnie Yen, Japanese filmmaker Kenji Tanagaki has made a name for himself as a prolific action choreographer in Hong Kong ci...

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Heartstopper Forever (2026) - Film Review - flickfeast

When she was 19, Alice Oseman secured a publishing deal for her debut novel Solitaire. Among the book’s supporting characters were two teenagers, Charlie Spring and Nick Nelson. What started off as an...

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Kokuho (2025) - Film Review - flickfeast

In 2010, Korean-born Japanese filmmaker Lee Sang-il adapted Shuichi Yoshida‘s crime noir novel, Villain, to film. The film won acclaim and various Japan Academy Prizes, as well as marked Lee’s first b...

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Ready or Not 2: Here I Come (2026) - Film Review - flickfeast

When Ready or Not exploded onto screens in 2019, it took audiences by surprise. The crowd-pleasing, blood-splattered horror comedy cemented Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett (aka Radio Silence) ...

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Project Hail Mary (2026) - Film Review - flickfeast

In 2011, American writer Andy Weir released his debut novel, The Martian, which was called “the best pure sci-fi novel in years” by the Wall Street Journal. Hollywood agreed, as a 2015 cinematic adapt...

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The Bride! (2026) - Film Review - flickfeast

1816 may sound like any other year, but it is a notable year for various reasons. It is also known as the ‘Year Without a Summer’, when a volcanic event caused temperatures to plummet to under 1°C. Th...

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The Testament of Ann Lee (2025) - Film Review - flickfeast

The Testament of Ann Lee marks the second film for Mona Fastvold, co-writing partner of filmmaker Brady Corbet. The success of their recent project, The Brutalist, set a level of anticipation for thei...

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Wuthering Heights (2026) - Film Review - flickfeast

Starring Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi, “Wuthering Heights” follows the doomed love story of Cathy (Robbie) and Heathcliff (Elordi). The film not only marks the latest feature by British filmmaker Em...

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Sundance 2026: Take Me Home - Film Review - flickfeast

In a feature-length adaptation of her homonymous short film, Liz Sargent’s Take Me Home explores the stigma of the American healthcare system through the eyes of a vulnerable family. The film focuses ...

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Sundance 2026: Josephine - Film Review - flickfeast

Drama-thriller Josephine stars Gemma Chan and Channing Tatum, with the debut performance of child actress Mason Reeves. Directed and written by Beth de Araújo, the film follows eight-year-old Josephin...

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Sundance 2026: Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty! - Film Review - flickfeast

Starring Babel actress Rinko Kikuchi, Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty! is the third feature directed by Josef Kubota Wladyka. After the death of her husband Luis (Alejandro Edda), Japanese dancer Haru (Kiku...

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Sundance 2026: Extra Geography - Film Review - flickfeast

A feature-length adaptation of the synonymous short story by Rose Tremain, Extra Geography is the directorial debut of Molly Manners, who directed several episodes of Netflix adaptation One Day. Set i...

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Marty Supreme (2025) - Film Review - flickfeast

Regardless of whether it is about boxing or football, a good sports film is hard to come by. Unfortunately, 2025 is dominated by big sports films with mixed responses. Much-anticipated biopics such as...

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The Stringer: The Man Who Took The Photo (2025) - Film Review - flickfeast

During the Vietnam War, a photograph was taken of a group of Vietnamese people running after a napalm attack that mistakenly hit the village of Trang Bang – at the centre of it was a young naked girl,...

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Zootropolis 2 (2025) - Film Review - flickfeast

2025 has been an up-and-down year for the House of Mouse. Its live-action adaptations of Snow White and the Seven Dwarves and Lilo & Stitch received less-than-enthusiastic reviews, while Elio underper...

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Wicked: For Good ★★★★

Released: 21 November 2025 Director: Jon M Chu Starring: Cynthia Erivo, Ariana Grande-Butera, Jonathan Bailey, Jeff Goldblum, Bowen Yang, Michelle Yeoh, Marissa Bode, Ethan Slater It is strange to thi...

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The Running Man (2025) - Film Review - flickfeast

In 2017, the same year his crime heist film Baby Driver was released, British filmmaker Edgar Wright expressed a desire to remake the Stephen King novel The Running Man, which was adapted into a 1987 ...

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London Film Festival 2025 – Left-Handed Girl ★★★★

Released: 14 November 2025 Director: Shih-Ching Tsou Starring: Janel Tsai, Shih-Yuan Ma, Nina Ye Taiwanese-American filmmaker Shih-Ching Tsou may be relatively unknown to wider audiences but she has b...

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LFF 2025: 100 Nights of Hero (2025) - Film Review - flickfeast

Marking the second film of by Canada-born, UK-based Julia Jackman, 100 Nights Of Hero follows her 2023 debut Bonus Track. The historical fantasy is based on Isabel Greenberg’s graphic novel of the sam...

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LFF 2025: Pillion (2025) - Film Review - flickfeast

In mainstream cinema, BDSM has always been depicted between men and women. These range from the Fifty Shades trilogy to Secretary and, more recently, Babygirl. Yet no one has really explored it in sam...

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London Film Festival 2025 – High Wire ★★★★

Released: TBC (London Film Festival) Director: Calif Chong Starring: Isabella Wei, Ka-Wah Lam, Elizabeth Tan We are in 2025, and yet there are not many films that are considered British-Chinese. The m...

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LFF 2025: Die, My Love (2025) - Film Review - flickfeast

In her first film in eight years (since LFF film You Were Never Here), Lynne Ramsey returns to the director’s chair with an English-language adaptation of Spanish novel Matate, amor. Starring Jennifer...

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LFF 2025: Rental Family (2025) - Film Review - flickfeast

The narrative of an American actor finding work in Japan is not original – after all, Sofia Coppola’s Lost in Translation and an episode of Friends (Joey’s lipstick for men) took inspiration from Amer...

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LFF 2025: Is This Thing On? (2025) - Film Review - flickfeast

In 2000, Liverpudlian John Bishop was going through a break-up with his wife. One night, he attended a comedy club to cheer himself but couldn’t pay the entry fee. To avoid paying, he put his name dow...

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LFF 2025: Hedda (2025) - Film Review - flickfeast

n 2015, actress Tessa Thompson met a director participating at Sundance Director’s Lab, after being invited to help workshop their script for their debut directorial film Little Woods. The collaborati...

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LFF 2025: The Voice of Hind Rajab (2025) - Film Review - flickfeast

On 29 January 2024, the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) received a call requesting aid when a family’s car was shot at by an Israeli army tank when they were trying to flee from the Gaza City ne...

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