REVIEW: The Social Reckoning

The verdict is in. So what now?

Before my screening of The Social Reckoning, the Molly Rose Foundation ran an advertisement in which Ian Russell described Instagram’s part in his teenage daughter’s death. It may be unfair to measure a two-hour drama against thirty seconds of a bereaved father’s testimony, but for all the film’s outraged speeches, none lands quite so hard.…

REVIEW: Frankenstein (LFF 2025)

Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein is a film of exquisite surfaces.

Every frame glows with painterly attention: the flicker of candlelight on stitched flesh, a crimson-lacquered angel, a rider frozen mid-gallop in a snowbound tableau. It’s as if Del Toro has built an anatomical model of Frankenstein – every bone polished, every vein visible – but forgotten to breathe full life into it.…