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Alex Billington

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Biography:

Alex Billington is the founder and editor of FirstShowing.net, launched in 2006. Based in Berlin, he is always planning his next trip to film festivals around the world. Find Alex @firstshowing.

Publications:
Favorites:

Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, Hackers, Raiders of the Lost Ark, City of God, Parasite, The Fifth Element, Starship Troopers, The Matrix, V for Vendetta, The Fountain, Monsters Inc, Mad Max Fury Road, Tampopo, Everything Everywhere All at Once, Michael Clayton, Her, Nine Days, Ratatouille

Location:

Colorado Springs, CO

Reviews

Movies TV Shows
In the Blink of an Eye (2026) 18% 7/10 EDIT “It's all about if you're on the same wavelength with it or not. And even if it's not the next 2001, there's still plenty to enjoy and appreciate about it anyway.” – FirstShowing.net Jan 30, 2026 Full Review The Last First: Winter K2 (2026) 100% 7.5/10 EDIT “What I appreciate the most about The Last First: Winter K2 is that it's a brutally honest look at the current reality of mountain climbing and how pointlessly egotistical it has all become.” – FirstShowing.net Jan 28, 2026 Full Review Frank & Louis (2026) 90% 8/10 EDIT “Even if there are many other films with a similar premise, there's still so much heart & soul to be found in the tenderness and vulnerability that Volpe offers.” – FirstShowing.net Jan 28, 2026 Full Review Run Amok (2026) 73% 3/10 EDIT “As important as it is for America to discuss this painful topic, this is unquestionably not the right way to do.” – FirstShowing.net Jan 28, 2026 Full Review Give Me the Ball! (2026) 9/10 EDIT “One of the most rousing and exciting documentaries playing at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival is called Give Me the Ball! - a biopic profile of the life and achievements of one Billie Jean King.” – FirstShowing.net Jan 28, 2026 Full Review Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty! (2026) 92% 8.5/10 EDIT “Amid so many other films about anguish & death & overcoming loss, Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty! is finally something unique and new and fresh within the overloaded grief subgenre.” – FirstShowing.net Jan 28, 2026 Full Review The Invite (2026) 89% 8/10 EDIT “It's smart and funny and honest – an entertaining and worthwhile film.” – FirstShowing.net Jan 28, 2026 Full Review Josephine (2026) 98% 10/10 EDIT “It's towering, extraordinary filmmaking that leaves you so moved, so impressed that you can't even get up from your seat when the credits start rolling.” – FirstShowing.net Jan 28, 2026 Full Review Hot Water (2026) 88% 8/10 EDIT “It's not about coming together as it is the journey with each other.” – FirstShowing.net Jan 28, 2026 Full Review Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025) 66% 9/10 EDIT “Avatar: Fire and Ash is more emotionally intense, more exciting, more spectacular than The Way of Water. But it doesn't extended all the way out to where it should and it does stumble a few times in getting us to the final battle.” – FirstShowing.net Dec 19, 2025 Full Review Arco (2025) 92% 8/10 EDIT “A fascinating sci-fi fantasy fable about manifesting change and creating a better future through friendship and positivity. It's so beautiful, impressively detailed, and entirely original in an imaginative way...” – FirstShowing.net Nov 14, 2025 Full Review Predator: Badlands (2025) 86% 8.8/10 EDIT “This is exactly why it's refreshing, and honestly quite exciting, to see Trachtenberg try something completely new and take this series in a whole new direction.” – FirstShowing.net Nov 7, 2025 Full Review I'm Not Everything I Want to Be (2024) 100% 9/10 EDIT “I'm Not Everything I Want To Be is an awe-inspiring photographic version of the classic story of how it takes an entire lifetime for an artist to finally be properly recognized.” – FirstShowing.net Nov 4, 2025 Full Review Starman (2025) 8/10 EDIT “I would've happily listened to Gentry Lee go even deeper into theories, ideas, differently possibilities, stories about Sagan or NASA...” – FirstShowing.net Oct 20, 2025 Full Review Primate (2025) 78% 8/10 EDIT “It's really just a fun horror movie concept that succeeds as 89 minute escapism / totally F'ed up genre entertainment.” – FirstShowing.net Oct 20, 2025 Full Review The Furious (2025) 100% 9.8/10 EDIT “While there are plenty of other great action movies this year, none of them have the fight scenes that this movie does, none of them are this level of full-on, go-totally-wild awesome.” – FirstShowing.net Oct 20, 2025 Full Review One Battle After Another (2025) 94% 9.5/10 EDIT “This sprawling, pristine, energetic, visceral modern movie deserves much more careful analysis & deeper intellectual appreciation. Not only entertaining, it's the movie of the moment...” – FirstShowing.net Sep 26, 2025 Full Review The Son and the Sea (2025) 7/10 EDIT “It's a flawed yet fascinating film, a solid feature debut from Cairns. She's got the right eye and does her best to capture this story through her lens.” – FirstShowing.net Sep 22, 2025 Full Review The Long Walk (2025) 88% 9/10 EDIT “They are remarkable together in this. I was wiping away tears by the end. I won't stop thinking about them for a long time...” – FirstShowing.net Sep 12, 2025 Full Review Sacrifice (2025) 38% 7.5/10 EDIT “It's bold, wild, and brash yet still highly entertaining and all-out ambitious in its concept.” – FirstShowing.net Sep 12, 2025 Full Review Kim Novak's Vertigo (2025) 92% 7.5/10 EDIT “This doc may only be enjoyed by die-hard film geeks and Kim Novak fans, but there's still something endearing about watching her open up & speak freely about being a movie star.” – FirstShowing.net Sep 9, 2025 Full Review Dead Man's Wire (2025) 91% 6.5/10 EDIT “Van Sant doesn't try to be preachy and doesn't need to be. Even if the film is a bit rough around the edges, it's a clever story...” – FirstShowing.net Sep 9, 2025 Full Review Bugonia (2025) 88% 8.5/10 EDIT “It's a remarkably fun and fresh new version of this story, with an improved finale and better performances from the cast as they all get lost in the madness of the situation.” – FirstShowing.net Sep 9, 2025 Full Review The Tale of Silyan (2025) 100% 9.5/10 EDIT “This is one film I won't be able to stop raving about. It's a cinematic experience that will leave anyone who watches it changed for the better & completely rejuvenated.” – FirstShowing.net Sep 9, 2025 Full Review Human Resource (2025) 9/10 EDIT “It's extremely dark, yet exceptionally sharp, in its perfectly depicted sly criticism of the what-are-we-even-doing-anymore hell we all live in nowadays.” – FirstShowing.net Sep 7, 2025 Full Review
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