Send us a text This week, it’s all about systems under strain. Satire. Power. And the quiet logic that collapses under pressure. Four Lions - a comedy that strips ideology back to behaviour, exposing how conviction fractures when it’s carried by people who don’t fully understand it. Succession - a long-form study of inheritance, damage and control - where power is learned early. Mountainhead - a claustrophobic retreat into wealth and paranoia, four men sealed inside a wo...

Send us a text This week, it’s all about the work that holds its ground. Craft. Control. And the quiet collisions that shape everything beneath the surface. A Beautiful Mind - a portrait of brilliance and illness, grounded in some of the most precise filmmaking of its era. The Studio - a world where art, ego and power wrestle for control, and every decision leaves a scar. One Battle After Another - a director-driven epic that builds its tension in silences, fractures and th...

Send us a text This week - it’s all about what lingers. Violence. Memory. And the histories that never stay buried. A murder that exposes the truth a town tried to hide. A masked world wrestling with the weight of its own past. And a man pulled into a story written long before he entered it. Mississippi Burning. Watchmen. Sinners. Three stories. One question. What happens when the past refuses to end? This is What Have I Missed?

Send us a text This week - it’s all about Spike Lee. Heat. History. And the pressure that pushes every one of his stories to the edge. Where a neighbourhood boils over. Every choice carries weight. And one street becomes a battleground for change. Where the water rises faster than the help. Systems fail in real time. And a city is left to survive what it was promised it never would. Where wealth masks the cracks beneath it. Power isolates the man who holds it. And morality becomes a luxury on...

This week — it’s all about the chase. Ambition. Delusion. And what it takes to stay in the spotlight. Where risk becomes routine. A gambler on the edge. A rapper playing himself. A star built from VHS dreams. Where identity is performance. Every bet is a confession. Every lyric is a mask. Every role is a reinvention. Where success becomes obsession. The stakes rise. The seams split. And staying alive isn’t always the point. Unc...

This week, it’s all about control — and what happens when we lose it. A dystopian game show where death is entertainment. A digital purgatory where every choice is judged. And a journey that never ends because stopping means dying. From Stephen King’s The Running Man, to Alice in Borderland, and The Long Walk - three stories obsessed with endurance, obedience, and survival. Where the real horror isn’t the game itself - it’s the system that built it. What Have I Missed? Available on Appl...

This week - it’s all about control. Power. Purpose. And what it means to lose both. From a jungle that stares back, to a droid that starts to think and a team of heroes still learning what being human really means. Predator (1987) — where the hunter becomes the hunted. A brutal, sweaty fever dream of war and survival. Murderbot (2024) — a machine built for obedience, suddenly self-aware and searching for autonomy. Fantastic Four: First Steps (2025) — science, spectacle, and the danger of mi...

This week - it’s all about the beast within. Blood. Inheritance. Transformation. From moonlight myths to modern monsters - three films, one curse reborn. The Wolf Man (1941) - where it began. A fog-drenched fable of guilt, grief and silver bullets. The Wolfman (2010) - gothic excess, all candlelight and carnage, where man and monster finally share a face. Wolfman (2025) - the curse reimagined; primal, tragic and terrifyingly human. A study in fear and fate of what we inherit and what we...

With faith, folklore and fanaticism at its core, this week’s episode of What Have I Missed? delves into belief and the cost of devotion. Three stories. Three reckonings. The Wicker Man — ritual. A sunlit nightmare where sacrifice wears a smile. The Outsider — reason. A battle between evidence and evil, where faith falters under forensic light. Heretic — revelation. When conviction becomes contagion, and salvation demands surrender. A study in ritual, doubt and damnation - where horror i...

With horror’s obsession shifting from monsters to what makes us one, this week’s episode of What Have I Missed? explores three stages of the body in crisis. Three films. Three states of undoing. The Cabin in the Woods - controlled. Flesh and fear orchestrated for sacrifice. All of Us Are Dead - infected. Bodies as battlegrounds, spreading faster than mercy. The Substance - transformed. Youth, beauty and power devouring themselves from within. A study in control, contagion an...

With Ryan Murphy’s Monster: The Ed Gein Story out, this week’s episode of What Have I Missed? looks back - not at Gein himself, but at how his crimes changed cinema forever. Three films. Three new languages of fear. Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho — the birth of the slasher and the moment horror learned to hide in plain sight. Tobe Hooper’s The Texas Chain Saw Massacre — the rise of the final girl, shot in feral heat and chaos. Jonathan Demme’s The Silence of the Lambs — the film that made female...

Welcome back to What Have I Missed? I’m Alex. Each week I catch up on three things I should have seen by now – pulling apart what still resonates, what catches me off guard and why they matter in 2025. This week: flamboyant farce in The Birdcage, extraterrestrial survival in Alien: Earth and the return of the Man of Steel in Superman. Let’s get into it.

Welcome back to What Have I Missed? I’m Alexandra Hepworth, and each week I catch up on three things I should have seen by now - pulling apart what still resonates, what catches me off guard and why they matter in 2025. This week: political paranoia in All the President’s Men, true-crime obsession with The Jinx and Ethan Hunt’s last impossible mission in Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning. Let’s get into it.

Welcome to the very first episode of What Have I Missed? I’m Alexandra Hepworth, your host. Each week, I’ll be catching up on three titles I’ve finally got around to watching - sharing what still resonates, what surprises, and why they’re worth talking about now. Today it’s three very different worlds: Sam Rockwell going solo in Moon. A Shakespearean apocalypse in Station Eleven. And Gareth Edwards is bringing dinosaurs and Spielberg nostalgia back to life in Jurassic Park: Rebirth. ...

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