The Thief Collector – Review
A middle-aged couple with a penchant for exotic holidays. Cliff, New Mexico. One of the most brazen art thefts in recent decades. A collection of self-published short stories revealing a potentially ...
Category Archives: 2022
Aftersun – Review
Cinema viewers of a certain age will recall all too well the sights, sounds and smells of a mid-1990s package holiday. The FILA trackies, the lukewarm beers, the dodgy looking flumes, the beige and b...
Top 10 Films of 2022 – Thomas’s Picks
It’s the most wonderful time of the year yet again. The time for the Moviescramble team to list their top ten films. A yearly tradition that is likely to cause more arguments than when your gre...
Top 10 Films of 2022 – Mary’s Picks
It’s that time of year again when I realise that I have watched absolutely nothing. (If you’ve listened to our podcasts, you’ll also know this to be the case.) You only have to look...
Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio – Review
There have been at least twenty four cinematic adaptations of Pinocchio, Carlo Collodi’s story of the wooden boy brought to life. Three of these appeared in 2022 alone. Surely, there cannot be any mo...
DIG (Short) – Review
A car parks – badly, across three spaces – in a busy beach car park. The driver seems exhausted, as if mentally bracing herself to get out of the car. As the door opens, empty cans spill ...
The Wonder – Review
Ireland, 1862. The spectre of the Famine looms large over the island. People are starved of hope and haunted by loss. This is the backdrop of Sebastian Lelio’s The Wonder, based on Emma Donoghue’s bo...
The Menu – Review
Director Mark Mylod is no stranger to poking fun at the entitlement and bad behaviour of the rich. You only have to watch a few episodes of his TV show, Succession, to know that he wants to be both i...
Barbarian – Review
** minor spoilers ahead ** There was bound to come a point where apps or technology changed the way horror movies pan out. We all have torches, maps and a world of other information in our pockets. ...
The Banshees of Inisherin – Review
Haven’t we all taken a moment in our life to ponder “what if?”. What if you took that job; what if you pursued what made you happy; what if there was more to life than you’re getting out of it? These...