Atomic Blonde – Review Kambole Campbell August 12, 2017 Reviews Charlize Theron’s latest action vehicle, Atomic Blonde, oversteers a little in its attempt to escape the limiting description of being “John Wick, but starring Charlize Theron”. Former stuntman and...
Your Week In Film: Milla and Millar, Netflix and Negga Stephen O'Nion August 11, 2017 News 1. Netflix acquires Millarworld Much like one of its biggest, hittest shows, it’s been a world of ups and downs for Netflix. Yup, we’re talking about you, Flaked. The up is most certainly the company’s...
Fragile and Funny: The Roles of Sally Hawkins Louise Burrell August 2, 2017 Analysis, Features, Spotlight Last year’s release of Maudie, the tale of a Nova Scotia artist who suffers from crippling arthritis, looks set to cement Sally Hawkins as the master of powerful fragility. Wonderfully charming and...
Top 10 World War II Movies Jack Blackwell July 18, 2017 Analysis, Features, Top 10 It hardly needs be said that World War II has been a cinematic goldmine pretty much since it started. A terrifyingly huge and barbarically violent industrial conflict on a scale never seen before or since, it...
Tom Holland: Entry Level Hollywood Carmen Paddock July 5, 2017 Analysis, Features, Spotlight Spider-Man’s third film series in 15 years kicks off on July 7 with Spider-Man: Homecoming. Unlike its predecessors, however, this will not be an origin story and fits into a much larger universe, with...
The Book of Henry – Review Phil W. Bayles June 21, 2017 Reviews Gregg Hurwitz's screenplay for The Book of Henry has been searching for a director since the late 1990s. Watching the film, it’s not difficult to see why. Tonally, it’s all over the place. It starts as...
Your Week In Film: Gilliam, Ghostbusters and more! Stephen O'Nion June 9, 2017 News 1. Don Quixote is coming… finally It’s taken nearly 20 years but Terry Gilliam has completed principal photography on The Man Who Killed Don Quixote. No, we don’t believe it either. Gilliam’s quest...
Your Week In Film: Foy, Flash, Frost & Pegg Stephen O'Nion May 19, 2017 News 1. Jimmy Kimmel will get to have another go at this whole Oscars thing Prepare yourself for a whole lot more jokes about Matt Damon, folks! Jimmy Kimmel has been announced as the host of the 90th Academy...
10 Most Exciting Cannes Competition Films 2017 Calum Baker April 14, 2017 Analysis, Features, Top 10 Last year's Cannes Film Festival was a real crowdpleaser in terms of headline names: Jim Jarmusch and Nicolas Winding Refn each blew us away, Jeff Nichols made a slow-burning stonker, and Asghar Farhadi...
Why The House of Mirth is Terence Davies’ Most Underrated Film Patrick Nabarro April 5, 2017 Features A Quiet Passion is not only the title of the Emily Dickinson biopic that comes out on general release this weekend. It could also be a fitting epigraph for the ethos of its diligent and artful director,...
Short of the Week – Night Fishing L D March 27, 2017 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tRlqPQ7dAw&t=267s Made with his brother Chan-kyong, Park Chan-wook's cacophonous avant-garde short journeys into the spirit world to explore notions of embodiment and...
10 Kids’ TV Shows That Need Gritty Reboots Calum Baker March 23, 2017 Analysis, Features, Top 10 What a time to be alive. Bryan Cranston, 25 years and six Emmys after playing "Snizzard" in Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers, is returning to the franchise reboot as the all-new ultra-realistic Zordon. The...
Your Week In Film: Millennium, Matthew Vaughn and The Matrix: Rebooted Stephen O'Nion March 17, 2017 News 1. And you thought awards season was over... In this week’s edition of Kids Say The Downright-Unbelievableist Things, the Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards winners were announced on Saturday night—well...
Your Week In Film: Ridley, Robbie, Racing Cars and more! Stephen O'Nion March 10, 2017 News 1. Ridley Scott has another Alien in him, not like John Hurt did If we asked who’s excited for the new Alien film, we’re sure we’d get a positive response. If we asked who’s pumped for six more...
Elle – Review Nick Evan-Cook March 10, 2017 Reviews Raucous, outrageous and more than a little bit preposterous, Paul Verhoeven's provocative “rape comedy” Elle will ruffle feathers for its apparently callous use of rape as a narrative device – but,...