Author: Kirsty Bird

From CEOs basking in their wealth while their employees drown in overtime, to conspiracy theorists turned serial killers, Yorgos Lanthimos’s Bugonia shines a spotlight on the ugly side of humanity. If an alien were to come to Earth and watch it, there’s a high chance they’d be on the next spaceship home. “Bugonia” was an… Continue reading Bugonia review — Lanthimos’s latest film asks, is humanity a bubble?

If there weren’t enough grim dystopian realities in film and TV, this 2025 adaption of Stephen King’s novel ‘The Long Walk’ has another one for us to think about. Set in an alternative, post-war 1970s America, the film follows 50 young men competing in an annual contest with one simple goal: walk until there’s only… Continue reading The Long Walk: an intimate journey with the walking dead