What have the Barden Bellas and a black bear on Class A drugs got in common you ask? Elizabeth Banks follows the brilliant Pitch Perfect trilogy (and her Charlie's Angels reboot) with a film that, to all intents and purposes, should be a slam-dunk with a trailer that got some feverish word of mouth. An embellished (very embellished) story of a drug drop gone wrong which resulted in a bear consuming a fatal amount of cocaine, the film is an 80’s B-movie pastiche trying to capi

Take a trip to the Quantum Realm. They’ve got Star Wars-like cantinas, talking pieces of broccoli and beautiful, if trippy, natural vistas. You might even spot Bill Murray. Probably not ATOL-protected. Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (get tit – quANTuMANia has Ant-Man in the title) kicks off the MCU’s Phase 5 and the second part of the ‘Multiverse Saga’ with exactly what you’d expect: a fun, exciting, villain-introducing romp sealed with Marvel’s usual wit, pizzazz, stacked

Would you sacrifice a member of your family to save the world? That’s the very simple but gripping premise of the latest film from M. Night Shyamalan: Knock at the Cabin. Based on the similarly named novel: The Cabin at the End of the World, this film doesn’t have any pretence in going above or beyond that set up. Four strangers interrupt a blissful family holiday to deliver that exact ultimatum, leaving Jonathan Groff’s Eric, Ben Aldridge’s Andrew and their seven-year-old da

Much has been made of the comeback of Brendan Fraser in Darren Aronofsky’s latest: The Whale. Awards talk aplenty (and a likely Best Actor Oscar recipient) but not much mentioned about the actual film itself. This is unfair as the film absolutely matches its towering lead performance. Aronofsky has long been a master at creating enthralling character portraits, from Requiem for a Dream and The Wrestler through to Black Swan and Jackie, and The Whale is another masterpiece. Ba

It’s getting increasingly rare to see true originality in cinema but 2018’s Searching certainly got into that bracket. Told as if the cinema screen was the screen of a computer, it was a gripping thriller of a father on the search for his missing daughter. On the heels of its success comes Missing, a quasi-sequel with the same set-up and style but a different story. This time, an eighteen-year-old’s mother goes missing whilst on holiday with her new boyfriend. In terms of plo

Nostalgia, reflection, family and the love of film, and cinema in particular, has been a theme in recent times. Particularly post-pandemic, our greatest directors have seemingly been imploring people to return to the big screen. Before screenings of his latest film: The Fabelmans, Steven Spielberg even has a little pre-recorded intro’ saying how special the cinema is and the part it still has to play in our lives. The movie itself is a dramatised version of Spielberg’s own co

A quite bonkers, lit-firework of a film, Babylon has, quite understandably, divided audiences and critics. Launching the start of a cinematic year can put extra spotlight on a film and it’s certainly the spotlight that Babylon wants and deserves, but this is quite the departure from La La Land and Whiplash. Taking the musicality of those two films and multiplying everything by 1000, Damien Chazelle truly lets loose here. Pitched somewhere between a Fellini-inspired acid trip

Happy New Year from The Brighton Film Club. Before we move into 2023 let’s reflect on another excellent year for film. Here are our Films...

Avatar: The Way of Water is long. It’s also very blue. It’s also got a bit of a grating script and could quite easily be taken as culturally insensitive (or worse.) It’s everything you’ve likely heard bandied around but it also might just be one of the prettiest films ever made and almost certainly a pivotal, game-changing moment for the industry, much like its predecessor. James Cameron has spent the eternal wait between films well, pushing the technology to the absolute lim

Well those twelve months sure went quick! The 'back to normal' that was 2022 was definitely cause for celebration and the music world...

Aftersun is a strikingly brave and bold debut film. Charlotte Wells positions herself as a director to watch with a film that sticks with you and lingers. Ostensibly a simple story of young single father Callum taking his 11-year-old daughter Sophie on holiday, it actually leaves more questions than answers as we intermingle with scenes from Sophie’s adult life, where it’s clear that things have changed dramatically and Callum is now absent. It veers between beautifully natur

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever is a hard film to review and I can’t imagine how difficult it must have been to make. The loss of Chadwick Boseman is still so keenly felt and his presence within, and absence from, this film overshadows everything else. Choosing to close Phase 4 with this sequel feels right and things are left over to Ant-Man: Quantumania to kickstart Phase 5 in 2023. Like a lot of the criticism surrounding this Phase, Wakanda Forever doesn’t quite contain enou