Author Kambole Campbell

Zhang Yimou’s first Hollywood feature feels like it was doomed to mediocrity from the start. Despite the credentials (this is the director of Hero, after all), the film appeared to offer up Hollywood’s...

Luckily for fans of gun-fu everywhere, Keanu Reeves and Chad Stahelski know how to keep a good thing going. John Wick: Chapter 2 shows that the budding franchise still has some surprises left in it. Like The...

Biopics, historical dramas, films about Hollywood, war films. The key phrase continually thrown around by the masses that connects these genres is the demeaning qualifier “Oscar bait” – should the film...

https://vimeo.com/193562415 With the recent onslaught of worrying executive actions from the new Trump administration (coupled with awful implications concerning freedom of press), it could be easy to...

Damien Chazelle's third feature, La La Land, confirms two trends in the director's still relatively young career. Firstly, an inclination towards jazz. Secondly, a tendency to make thrilling, moving...

“By any means necessary” – the mantra that often opens Spike Lee’s films – would appear to reflect the director's core beliefs: the absolute necessity of equality for African Americans, by any means...

Mixing hip-hop flair with the samurai ethos, arthouse cool with wild action sequences, and Forest Whitaker with a bunch of birds, Jim Jarmusch's Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai couldn’t be a stranger,...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q__bSi5rBlw For a lot of people, it’s been a frustrating couple of weeks. With the result of the US election, there’s plenty of concern for how the next four years...

As a fashion designer, it's unsurprising that Tom Ford is preoccupied with the idea of the pretty. Nocturnal Animals is an exercise in the disruption of beauty, right from its bizarre opening credits. The...

Derek Cianfrance’s highly anticipated The Light Between Oceans has finally been released, and it's somewhat disappointing. Even having never heard of the novel, it was easy to get excited by the big names...

Over the past few years there has been a renewed push for representation of black voices in Hollywood. With recent online campaigns such as #OscarsSoWhite, and more physical movements like Black Lives Matter,...

With the disappearance of notorious bigot and perpetual pain in the ass Ike Perlmutter, the future of Marvel looks bright. In the last decade Marvel Studios has released a long series of consecutive box office...

When protagonist Ricky Baker (Julian Dennison) points out "it's just like Lord of the Rings," as he and his grumpy "uncle" Hec (Sam Neill) hide from the disproportionate amount of armed troops hunting them,...

Blue Jasmine starts the same way that any other Woody Allen film does. Yet that’s where most of the similarities end between his other works, and his greatest film in years. Blue Jasmine shares standard...

Hounds of Love is one of those films that most people can only stomach once. Sharing a namesake, and maybe some themes, with the hit song by Kate Bush, Australian director Ben Young's debut film is a deeply...