The much-anticipated sequel to Todd Phillip’s groundbreakingly, grounded comic book movie is finally upon us. Now, when your first iteration is celebrated for breaking away from the pack and being brilliantly self-contained, a sequel will always come with (perhaps, unachievably) high expectations. And sadly, come the end credits of Joker: Folie à Deux you can’t help but hear the Bee Gees Started to Cry Lyrics “Oh, if I’d only seen, that the joke was on me” as you walk in slow-motion towards the cinema car park.
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Jacked In Reviews ‘The Substance’ (2024)
We join the once-great Elisabeth Sparkle (Demi Moore) as she is abruptly pushed out of the spotlight – now that she’s turning 50. However, she soon discovers she is a perfect candidate for The Substance. An elaborate dosage system of sorts that may “better”, not just her situation… but her actual self.
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Jacked In Reviews ‘Kinds of Kindness’ (2024)
If you go into the movie with no preconceptions, what initially appears to be a chapter set up eventually reveals that Yorgos Lanthimos’ latest feature is in fact a triptych tale comprised of several short stories connected by an individual known as R.M.F (Yorgos Stefanakos). And with that the penny drops regarding the three Kinds of Kindness title format on the movie’s promotions.
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Jacked In Reviews ‘Wicked Little Letters’ (2024)
Thea Sharrock’s Wicked Little Letters, a movie that is British from head to toe, so what better place to experience it, than in the establishment that champions the sub-genre… Tyneside Cinema.
Showcasing actual events, “this story that is more real than you think”. Set in 1920s Sussex, in the town of Littlehampton, we follow the well-to-do Edith Swan (Olivia Colman) and her authoritarian father, Edward Swan (Timothy Spall). And it seems Edith has been receiving some abusive letters as of late.
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Jacked In Reviews ‘Dune: Part Two’ (2024)
Picking up from where we left off, Denis Villeneuve’s sequel gives us a more granular, in-depth experience for the desert planet known as Arrakis in Dune: Part Two.
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Jacked In Reviews ‘The Iron Claw’ (2023)
The pillars surrounding the screen at Tyneside Cinema provides the perfect opening, as a black and white man comes into focus, (seemingly) pummelling someone within an inch of their life inside the wrestling ring – before using his signature move, The Iron Claw. However, the intensity in the fighter’s eyes isn’t that of passion for the craft… but an obsession.
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Jacked In Reviews ‘Poor Things’ (2023)
As we settle into our red velvet seats at Tyneside Cinema, it becomes clear that their gorgeously old-fashioned, classic screen is the perfect vessel to experience this Victorian masterpiece. Based on Alasdair Gray’s 1992 novel of the same name (well, partly, the full title is, in fact, Poor Things: Episodes From The Early Life Of Archibald McCandless M.D., Scottish Public Health Officer – a very apt title for the beautifully bizarre world in which this story lives), partnering once again, we have Acadamy Award Nominee and BAFTA-winning screenwriter, Tony McNamara (The Favourite & The Great) and Academy Award-winning filmmaker, Yorgos Lanthimos’ (The Lobster, Killing of the Sacred Deer & The Favourite) adaptation.
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Jacked In Reviews ‘Saltburn’ (2023)
Academy Award-winning, Emerald Fennell brings us her much-anticipated follow-up to Promising Young Woman. The darkly comedic, stylistic, satirical thriller, surrounding class and depravity (quite the understatement), Saltburn.
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Jacked In Reviews ‘Mammoth’ (2023)
Đorđije Petrović’s Mammoth sees Nebojša (Vahid Džanković) pay a visit to the countryside with his wife and son – to celebrate his mother’s birthday. However, after his recent love affair, the trip is less than idyllic.
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Jacked In Reviews ‘Bird Drone’ (2023)
Radheya Jegatheva brings us a captivating story of a lonely seagull who befriends a drone.
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Jacked In Reviews ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ (2023)
As we open on members of the Osage people amid – what can only be described as – a spiritual oil rave, you are immediately hooked for what is to come next in Martin Scorsese’s adaptation of David Grann’s book (of the same name), Killers of the Flower Moon.
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Jacked In Reviews ‘Breadwinner’ (2023)
Set in England, Oscar Bell’s Breadwinner presents an empathetic story during a time when the cost of living crisis has swept the country.
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Jacked In Reviews ‘Bite The Hand’ (2023)
Bite the Hand sees Grace (Lucy Shervington), an individual attending counselling for depression brought on by her domestic household and a past which remains unclear (until the end reveal).
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Jacked In Reviews ‘Mean’ (2023)
Director, Joshua Blewitt brings us chauvinistic, narcissist, movie lover and filmmaker, Chez Florentine (Joe Carmichael), amidst the release of his latest (very controversial) flick, Mean.
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Jacked In Reviews ‘Misdirection’ (2023)
Every now and again you’re given a film that doesn’t necessarily have a start, middle and end but still manages to tell a truly engaging story, keeping you hooked throughout, enter Kurt Sear’s Misdirection.
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