Christmas 2025 is officially bearing down on us, and if your festive to-do list still includes “find actually good gifts”, we’ve got you covered. This year’s SpicyPulp Christmas Buying Guide is all about smart indulgence: gifts that look great, feel thoughtful, and hit that sweet spot between style, substance and a little bit of swagger. […]
You’re cordially invited to A24’s ‘The Drama’
We’re getting all the treats from A24 at the moment. Not only have we been gifted the recent trailer of Glen Powell’s How to Make a Killing, the psychosexual pop drama of David Lowery’s Mother Mary, and with Eternity out for the holidays, it’s turning out to be the best time to be an A24 […]
‘The History of Sound’ – Review
Filmmaker Oliver Hermanus firmly cemented his talent with 2022’s Living, an intimate, emotionally resonant masterpiece led by Bill Nighy that quietly emerged as one of the decade’s defining pieces of cinema. It was sincere, deeply human, and profoundly warm: an exploration of life’s small miracles that lingered long after the credits. Now, Hermanus returns with […]
‘Eternity’ – Review
There’s nothing quite like an end-of-year romantic comedy to wrap you up in all the feels, and when A24 is steering the ship, you know you’re in for something truly heartfelt. Eternity is exactly that: a film that’s warm, tender, emotionally rich and overflowing with love in all its forms. It’s funny, it’s moving, it’s […]
A cataclysmic reckoning approches in final season of ‘The Boys’
It’s all been leading to this. Scorched Earth. Shock and Awe. Blood and Bone. And only one species left standing as its an all out war arrives between humanity and the Supes as we approach the final season of Prime Video’s epic, violent and insane superhero satire The Boys, and now we’ve gotten out first […]
Honour and courage are delivered on the field of combat in ‘A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms’
2026 is shaping up to be a significant year for fans of HBO, with one of the most exciting upcoming releases being A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms. This series will transport audiences back to the high fantasy realm of George R.R. Martin’s Westeros, following the humble hedge knight Ser Duncan the Tall (played by […]
David Lowery delivers a haunting vision of gothic ecstasy in A24’s ‘Mother Mary’
Whenever we hear news that filmmaker David Lowery (The Green Knight, A Ghost Story) is preparing to release another feature film, it’s always exciting. His upcoming gothic melodrama, which explores themes of obsession, pop music, and high fashion, promises to deliver an utterly hypnotic and intense performance by Academy Award winner Anne Hathaway. Mother Mary […]
‘Spartacus: House of Ashur’ – Review
There are moments in television where the sands shift, the heavens crack open, and audiences are reminded, viscerally, ferociously, of the power of mythic storytelling. In the early 2010s, STARZ’s Spartacus was exactly that kind of lightning strike. It was bold. It was dominant. It was unapologetically operatic. With the late Andy Whitfield and successor Liam McIntyre […]
Fear is the new religion in ’28 Years Later: The Bone Temple’
Celebrated British filmmaker Danny Boyle turned things up a notch and utterly shook up the cinema landscape this year with 28 Years Later, it was horror filmmaking at its most manic, fearless and blindingly original narrative taste. It delivered audiences a caustic shock, and now the second chapter of this utterly crazy story is set to arrive […]
The ghoulish game of cat and mouse continues in ‘Ready or Not 2: Here I Come’
2019’s Ready or Not was a horror comedy big on both gore and gags, and it struck a chord with audiences with its unabashed originality and haughty comedy horror slashfest, and was an instant hit with movie goers and grossing more than $57 million dollars on a $6 million budget, along with confirming Samara Weaving […]