Author Louise Burrell

Set against the soundtrack backdrop of 'Awesome Mixtape Vol. 2', the second instalment of Guardians of the Galaxy expands the Marvel universe ever further and sees the team uncover the mysteries of Peter...

Oz Arshad’s directorial debut Finding Fatimah brings us the story of Shahid, a Muslim divorcee looking for love on dating app Single Muslim. He stumbles across the beautiful Fatimah, but with divorce...

Hot Fuzz is full to the brim with scene-stealing talent. With Simon Pegg and Nick Frost at the helm in the second installment of their Cornetto Trilogy with Edgar Wright, they may be at the centre of some of...

With a filmography consisting of the likes of Oldboy, Stoker and Lady Vengeance, Park Chan-wook's The Handmaiden was always going to be mysterious and challenging. Our Stephanie saw the film at last year's...

https://vimeo.com/209597030 Based on Patricia Highsmith’s book of the same name, HBO-backed A Mighty Nice Man tells the eerie story of a little girl’s loss of innocence. When Charlotte and her...

With 8 Oscar nominations under its belt, Moonlight has quickly become a real competitor against the likes of La La Land.  Offering a look at the complexities of modern day masculinity in situations of high...

A scene-stealer that plays the title role in a film? How can that be? Well, Michael Keaton may have played the "starring role" in Beetlejuice (credited as "Betelgeuse"), but did you know he has just a...

Writer-director (and occasional actor) Taika Waititi has made himself a nice little niche in the last ten years, creating New Zealand-centric films with universal appeal. Usually honing in on characters...

Yes, it’s that time of the year, when all of the warm and fuzzy, tinsel-covered festive film favourites sleigh-ride back into our lives. Come December there’s nothing more enjoyable than settling down for...

With Steven Spielberg at the helm and a ridiculously strong cast of Robin Williams, Dustin Hoffman, Bob Hoskins, and Julia Roberts, Hook should have been the standout Hollywood success story of 1991. Instead,...

It’s difficult to heap yet more praise onto a film that’s already so widely acclaimed, but there’s something so special about The Squid and the Whale that you can’t help but keep coming back to it....

Disney have managed to weave a gorgeous, rich tapestry when it comes to Moana. Everything looks and sounds glorious; the colours are bright and the characters are ones you genuinely invest in. Moana (newcomer...

Cast your mind back to the hazy days of the late noughties. Judd Apatow had been pretty much owning the blockbuster comedy genre with The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Knocked Up, and Superbad - the latter of which...

Everyone has at least one film they saw as a child that has stuck with them ever since. In most cases it's because they brought you so much enjoyment (and you probably watched them far too many times). But in...

Melissa McCarthy has carved herself quite the lucrative niche in recent years, playing the loud, brash character who will say literally anything to get a laugh. Her latest comedy vehicle The Boss hits UK...