Rory Doherty

2 days ago | flicks.com.au | Amelia Berry |Rory Doherty |Dominic Corry |Liam Maguren

You don’t know what you’ve got until it’s gone. That might mean your wife. And that might make you realise that you don’t give a shit about your marriage. That’s the issue Davis (Jake Gyllenhaal) faces as he remains emotionally numb to the fact while everyone else mourns like a ‘normal’ person.

5 days ago | flicks.com.au | Amelia Berry |Rory Doherty |Dominic Corry |Liam Maguren

It wasn’t hard to picture the big screen possibilities when the original Lights Out short went viral a few years ago. The resulting film, written by Eric Heisserer (Final Destination 5, 2010’s A Nightmare on Elm St remake), isn’t the most interesting extrapolation of the short imaginable, but its central hook remains effective enough to keep the movie afloat for its brisk running time.

1 week ago | bfi.org.uk | Rory Doherty |Chloe Walker |Sam Wigley

To date, Michael B. Jordan has appeared in every Ryan Coogler film. As if to make up for only giving him a single scene in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022), Coogler’s new project, Sinners, casts Jordan in two lead roles: twin Mississippi gangsters Smoke and Stack, whose attempts to start a juke joint with bootlegging money in the Jim-Crow-era south attracts the attention of less than friendly visitors.

1 week ago | avclub.com | Rory Doherty

Who’s on the phone right now? What can they see, what are they planning? Phone conversations—be they text or voice based—have been commonplace for so long that thriller and horror villains take advantage of their familiarity to panic unsuspecting victims, or to trick them into getting in harm’s way. Characters try to rationalize the fear of invasive, manipulative callers all the time: Surely someone just dialed the wrong number. Surely this person is who they say they are.

1 week ago | radiotimes.com | Rory Doherty

Now, season 7 has rewarded fans with a feature-length sequel, Into Infinity. But instead of correcting a major issue with the original episode, the Star Trek-inspired sequel abandons the themes and tension that made it so compelling – even if its best moments were borrowed from old Trek.