Alex J. Reviews
 

Poster for Remarkably Bright Creatures The adaptation of Shelby Van Pelt’s NYT Best Selling novel Remarkably Bright Creatures (dir. Olivia Newman) recently hit Netflix, starring Sally Field, Lewis Pullman, and Alfred Molina, to rave reviews. It’s a rare kind of story in that a giant pacific octopus called Marcellus (voiced by Molina) narrates the film, as he observes the life around him from his aquarium home that Field’s character Tova is the caretaker of. Tova is our centre

A shot of the first journey in Tube Film. On 25 th August 2025, Orla Smith took the tube on the London Underground for the first time in almost two years. Back in 2023, Orla had a horrible panic attack on the Central Line that prevented her from being able to use the underground again. After wanting to confront this fear for a while but struggling to set out the time to do so, Orla decided that the best motivation for her was to make a mid-length documentary film about it w

Robert Redford with his Oscar for Best Director for Ordinary People (1980) For my 15 th birthday, my mum bought me my first ever Robert Redford DVD, Barefoot in the Park (Saks, 1967), and that was me sold on Robert Redford. As someone who gravitates more towards actresses onscreen, I always thought I’d be hard pressed to find an actor whose work and presence onscreen and the stories he told could have the same kind of impact as some of the actresses I loved. But then watc

When I think back to my favourite films or TV shows as a child, I realise the one thing that connects them all together, and why I was so drawn to them in the first place, was because they had fully realised, intelligent and more-than-capable female characters at their centre. Of course, as a 5 year old pretending to be Princess Leia, I was too young to understand why I was so in love with these kind of characters, but looking back I can confidently say this is why. Great f