McQueen – Review
A question that any biographical documentary must face is how do you capture the soul, personality, and genius of your subject matter? McQueen tackles the challenge through a thorough, intelligent, and...
How To Talk To Girls At Parties – Review
One thing is clear throughout How To Talk To Girls At Parties: the cast and crew had an absolute blast making it. It's just a shame that the filmmakers failed to allow the audience into the fun. It all...
Sherlock Gnomes – Review
INT. OFFICE CONFERENCE ROOM – DAY Two executives pace in a large conference room. Following Gnomeo and Juliet’s surprise success, the studio begin to plan for a sequel… EXECUTIVE 1: Gnomeo and...
Skid Row Marathon – Review
By day Superior Court Judge Craig Mitchell is sentencing some of Los Angeles' biggest criminals but by night he is pounding the notorious streets of Skid Row with recovering alcoholics, drug addicts and former...
Rampage – Review
A giant gorilla, a super-sized armoured alligator, a flying mega wolf and Dwayne Johnson appear in a film. It’s the beginning of a great joke and therein lies the problem with Rampage. Stuck in attempting to...
Short of the Week – The Hungry Corpse
https://vimeo.com/258683540 In the world of short films, animation is a popular genre. Populated by promising and flawed student films, it’s easy to miss the polished diamonds in among the rough...
Short of the Week – Einstein-Rosen
https://vimeo.com/250569840 Deep Impact, Seeking a Friend for the End of the World and TiMER all hold two similar qualities: they are a sci-fi movie, directed by a woman. These films are fine entries...
Mary Magdalene – Review
It is a greater crime for a film to be boring than bad, for at least the latter elicits an emotion. Their flaws shine out like diamonds in a mine and burn themselves into your mind. A pseudo-reward for your...
Mom and Dad – Review
Director Brian Taylor is not a man of subtlety. The mind behind Crank, Crank: High Voltage and Gamer has a penchant for the frenzied. Mom and Dad is no different. From the off, Taylor's film has its...
I, Tonya – Review
"I was loved for a minute, then I was hated. Then I was just a punch line," so says Margot Robbie at the end of her tour de force performance in I, Tonya. A tragic finale to the tale of infamous ice-skater...
Team Talk – Coco
January is terrible isn't it? It's dull, grey and it rains. Endlessly. If only there was a new animated flick, bursting with colours, vibrancy and soulful music... ? Luckily for us, Disney in all their...
Top 20 Films of 2017: #20 to #11
It’s here! The One Room With A View Top 20 films of 2017 has arrived. If you thought 2017 was a poor year for movies, you didn't watch enough movies. At the very least, you didn't watch the right moves....
Your Week In Film: Did Somebody Call For A Plummer and More!
Well, we back together to look over another week in film. It's not pretty is it? The last seven days has seen even more allegations arise for Kevin Spacey, Jeffrey Tambor, Louis C.K. and beyond. It makes for...
Short of the Week – Fox and the Whale
https://vimeo.com/237551523 Nowadays, pretty visuals, compensating for a lack of substance, can go a long way for some shorts. One suspects there's a hope that the short running time and a few...
Dina – Review
A documentary about a loved-up couple, both of whom are on the autism spectrum, walks a tightrope. If the film drops into sentimentality, it gives rise to claims of condescension. If it stays within cautious...