Ilan Preskovsky

Ilan Preskovsky Channel24 (South Africa) Jun 8, 2026 4/5 Knight and co. have somehow managed to strike a near-perfect balance between earnestness and irony, resulting in a movie with an infectious mix of big laughs, old-fashioned thrills, likeable characters played by a game cast, and huge dollops of weirdness. Go to Full Review Masters of the Universe (2026) 67% - -

Ilan Preskovsky Channel24 (South Africa) May 11, 2026 3/5 It is clearly, demonstrably most interested in being a tribute to this fallen pop star than anything that scratches below the surface. And to enjoy Michael, you absolutely have to meet it at its own level. Go to Full Review Michael (2025) 38% - -

Ilan Preskovsky Channel24 (South Africa) May 11, 2026 3.5/5 Mortal Kombat II is much more likely to satisfy fans of the games who are mostly here to see their favourite characters beat the stuffing, blood, guts, and gore out of one another, but it’s a little less satisfying as an actual movie. Go to Full Review Mortal Kombat II (2025) 63% - -

Ilan Preskovsky Channel24 (South Africa) Apr 13, 2026 4.5/5 It’s so thoroughly engrossing, in fact, and so grounded by note-perfect performances from both its leads and its supporting cast, that you almost don’t notice the multitude of themes and ideas it throws our way. Go to Full Review The Drama (2026) 76% - -

Ilan Preskovsky Channel24 (South Africa) Mar 2, 2026 3/5 Sometimes big swings miss their mark, but as always, better that Emerald Fennell took that swing when she could so easily have gone for something a lot safer, a lot more faithful and ultimately a lot more dull. Go to Full Review Wuthering Heights (2026) 57% - -

Ilan Preskovsky Channel24 (South Africa) Mar 2, 2026 3.5/5 Where the film does become more interesting is in the idea that the class war is an exercise in futility; that the ambitions of the less wealthy may be just as destructive as the greed of the rich. I just wish Ford focused more firmly on this. Go to Full Review How to Make a Killing (2026) 45% - -

Ilan Preskovsky Channel24 (South Africa) Oct 6, 2025 3/5 Throw in a couple of beloved actors in the lead roles and fun supporting turns by Kevin Kline and Phoebe Waller-Bridge, and it really should have been something special rather than what it is: a likeable, admirably ambitious, but deeply flawed oddity. Go to Full Review A Big Bold Beautiful Journey (2025) 37% - -

Ilan Preskovsky Channel24 (South Africa) Sep 7, 2025 3/5 “Comfortable” is probably not the word one would want to associate with horror, but it’s as much a feature as it is a bug in this “final” Conjuring movie. Go to Full Review The Conjuring: Last Rites (2025) 57% - -

Ilan Preskovsky Because Everyone Else Has One (blog) Sep 2, 2025 7/10 But as Morning Glory quickly proves, maybe there's nothing wrong with a bit of good, old-fashioned fluff in your cinematic diet. Especially if the fluff in question is as well-handled, entertaining and flat-out joyful as it is here. Go to Full Review Morning Glory (2010) 57% 51%

Ilan Preskovsky Channel24 (South Africa) Aug 17, 2025 4/5 It has some impressively gnarly body-horror set pieces and large dollops of appropriately pitch-black humour, but its genre trappings are very much in service of the relationship drama and character exploration at the heart of the film. Go to Full Review Together (2025) 89% - -

Ilan Preskovsky Channel24 (South Africa) Jul 13, 2025 4/5 At a time when it feels like we need the symbolism of Superman more than ever – that beautiful fairy tale of someone with incredible power who only wants to use that power for good - the real deal has, at last, returned to our big screens. Go to Full Review Superman (2025) 83% - -

Ilan Preskovsky Channel24 (South Africa) Jul 1, 2025 3.5/5 For a souped-up car commercial, it’s a far better movie than it has any right to be. Furthermore, the fact that it was made in close collaboration with the FIA means that the whole thing has an air of real authenticity about it. Go to Full Review F1 The Movie (2025) 82% - -

Ilan Preskovsky Channel24 (South Africa) Jun 8, 2025 3.5/5 There is a lot of pleasure to be had in watching one of the most beautiful women on the planet beating the snot out of a succession of faceless baddies. More surprising is how good a job it does of carving its own little place in this absurd world. Go to Full Review Ballerina (2025) 75% - -

Ilan Preskovsky Channel24 (South Africa) Jun 8, 2025 4/5 The sentimentality, the forced narrative leaps, the simple messaging quickly become “features” when you realize what this film actually is and what it’s trying to do...it is as much a fairytale as something like Snow White and the Seven Dwarves. Go to Full Review The Life of Chuck (2024) 80% - -

Ilan Preskovsky Channel24 (South Africa) May 31, 2025 2.5/5 There’s just no getting around it, Karate Kid: Legends is a complete and utter mess that gets by almost entirely on the considerable charm of its cast and a general easygoing warmth and sweet nature that’s hard to deny. Go to Full Review Karate Kid: Legends (2025) 57% - -

Ilan Preskovsky Channel24 (South Africa) May 25, 2025 3.5/5 It may be one of the weaker entries in a series that includes at least three of the greatest films ever made within its genre, but it still leaves 99.99% of other films in that genre in its dust. Go to Full Review Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning (2025) 80% - -

Ilan Preskovsky Channel24 (South Africa) Apr 22, 2025 4/5 There are many, many reasons to like Sinners – which is, for my money, Coogler’s very best film to date – but first among them is the way the film careens through several wildly different genres and somehow still comes out of it as a cohesive whole. Go to Full Review Sinners (2025) 97% - -

Ilan Preskovsky Channel24 (South Africa) Mar 13, 2025 3.5/5 Still, even if Mickey 17 fails to engage the brain anywhere near as much as something that is clearly poised to be "intelligent sci-fi" should do, it's still a well-made, entertaining, funny and ultimately warm-hearted romp. Go to Full Review Mickey 17 (2025) 77% 55%

Ilan Preskovsky Channel24 (South Africa) Mar 2, 2025 4/5 The Monkey is not a horror movie. I don’t believe for a second that any of it is supposed to be even remotely scary. [It's] an utterly deranged, absurdist existential-comedy with a very sick and twisted sense of humour. And I loved every minute of it. Go to Full Review The Monkey (2025) 77% - -

Ilan Preskovsky Channel24 (South Africa) Feb 12, 2025 4.5/5 The Brutalist and its main character are basically fictional, but the result is as authentic as any biopic of a real-life person. By not being limited to facts, Corbet has the freedom to really dig into the truths at the heart of his film. Go to Full Review The Brutalist (2024) 93% - -