Armageddon Time Review – Cannes Film Festival 2022 Alysha Prasad May 29, 2022 Reviews James Gray’s highly anticipated Armageddon Time is a coming-of-age memoir set in the 80’s based on Gray’s experience growing up in Queens, New York, as told through the life of Paul Graff (Banks Repeta)...
The Witches – Review Louise Burrell October 25, 2020 Reviews 30 years after Nicolas Roeg’s terrifying take on The Witches comes Robert Zemeckis’ 2020 version. With the 1990 version still much-loved (and much-feared), Zemeckis had quite a hurdle to get over, and...
Dark Waters – Review Carmen Paddock February 26, 2020 Reviews The opening scene of Todd Haynes’ latest feature immediately evokes Jaws, as a group of giggling, beer-fueled teenagers trespass for a midnight swim. The killer in the water, however, is not quite as easy to...
The Last Thing He Wanted – Review Calum Baker February 22, 2020 Reviews For Elena McMahon, things start simple enough: after years’ hard work reporting global humanitarian atrocities, her paper reshuffles and she is demoted to following the US campaign trail. Her new subject:...
The Hustle – Review Joni Blyth May 12, 2019 Reviews A remake of a remake, The Hustle uses its opening credits to set its sights in a different area: the Saturday morning cartoon. Our two leads cartwheel through Hanna Barbera-inspired capers reminiscent of all...
Ocean’s 8 – Review Tom Bond June 13, 2018 Reviews It’s still depressingly rare for a film to have all women in the lead roles, but Ocean’s 8 would have been worthy of very little attention if that was the only remarkable thing about it. Instead, it...
Your Week In Film: Marvel, Mattel, More Harrison Ford Films! Stephen O'Nion July 28, 2017 News 1. Captain Marvel is heading to the 90s, not to Infinity War The most recent edition of the San Diego Comic-Con revealed some gems. Not only did we get ourselves a whole hunk’a trailers, we also received...
Colossal – Review Tom Bond May 20, 2017 Reviews You won’t see another film quite like Colossal this year. It’s best you know as little as possible going into this unique and wildly ambitious film, whose madness only just begins with the concept of...
Scene Stealers: Emily Blunt in The Devil Wears Prada Sian Brett June 30, 2016 Analysis, Features, Scene Stealers If I said the name Emily Blunt to you, what would you think of? Do you think of the way she’s carving a pretty good name for herself in action movies as a woman? The fact that she’s married to John...
Alice Through The Looking Glass – Review Phil W. Bayles May 28, 2016 Reviews Say what you will about Tim Burton’s much-maligned Alice in Wonderland, but at least it was recognisably an adaptation of Lewis Carroll’s timeless novel. James Bobin’s sequel, Alice Through The Looking...
The Intern – Review Alex Flood October 4, 2015 Reviews Robert De Niro excels as a lonesome widower in Nancy Meyers’ quirky yarn about intern life in the ultra-hip creative world of… Brooklyn? Ol’ Bobby Milk stars opposite the enchanting Anne Hathaway,...
Interstellar – Review Christopher Preston October 31, 2014 Reviews Interstellar is magnificently ambitious. It is just a shame that narrative appears to be the stubbiest finger upon the grasping palm of its lofty aspirations. Nolan’s space odyssey detonates some of the...
Hollywood’s Brightest Star: Channing Tatum David Brake July 29, 2014 Analysis, Features, Spotlight 2 Comments He weighs in at 83kg, 185cm tall and he’s the male acting equivalent of Anne Hathaway. A figure that’s often derided by critics for his apparent absence of talent, Channing Tatum is a by-word for “tries...