The Good Nurse – Review Rachel Brook October 29, 2022 Reviews Tobias Lindholm, perhaps best known as the writer of Another Round and The Hunt, has returned with a turgid and morose slog of a movie. Despite being billed as a thriller, The Good Nurse has sacrificed most of...
The Trial of the Chicago 7 – Review Anahit Behrooz October 18, 2020 Reviews “There are civil trials and there are criminal trials. There’s no such thing as a political trial”. The Chicago 7’s lawyer is about to realise just how wrong he is. The second directorial feature from...
The Aeronauts – LFF 2019 Review Jack Blackwell October 9, 2019 Reviews ‘Gravity, but Victorian’, is an intriguing pitch and, visually, The Aeronauts delivers on this strange, exciting promise. As Felicity Jones and Eddie Redmayne journey through the skies in a giant hot air...
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald – Review Calum Baker November 21, 2018 Reviews After leaving The Crimes of Grindelwald, the tenth film in the Wizarding World cine-verse, your appreciation for J.K. Rowling may reach its lowest point yet. Oh, sure, Fantastic Beasts part one was delightful,...
Early Man – Review Nick Evan-Cook January 17, 2018 Reviews It's been a full 10 years since Aardman founder and visionary Nick Park last occupied the director's chair on one of their creations, but the joyous Early Man makes us feel as if he never left it. Early...
Your Week In Film: Cleopatra Jones and Felicity Jones together at last! Stephen O'Nion December 1, 2017 News 1. Eddie Redmayne and Felicity Jones to pair up again Felicity Jones and Eddie Redmayne are ready to get the band back together. Variety reports that the two, who starred together in the super successful The...
Get a Room! Five Movies that deserve the souped-up screening treatment Joni Blyth November 28, 2017 Features, Nostalgia, The Citizen Kane of Awful The Room began with a dream, and a bundle of leather jackets. Tommy Wiseau set out to tell the story of Johnny, a hapless man struggling to keep his future marriage afloat, but in the process became a story in...
How Jupiter Ascending Set a New High Bar for Trashy Sci-Fi Carmen Paddock August 1, 2017 Features, Nostalgia, Second Chance While the Wachowskis have previously found success with films like The Matrix and V for Vendetta (and an arguable, if baffling, masterpiece in Cloud Atlas), Jupiter Ascending garnered lukewarm reviews at best...
Adapt to Fit: Authors as Screenwriters and the Mechanics of Industry Adaptation Rachel Brook November 18, 2016 Analysis, Close-Up, Features The release of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them marks J.K. Rowling’s first screenwriting credit. Yet authors adapting their own work for the screen is neither a new nor a particularly rare practice....
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them – Review Tori Brazier November 17, 2016 Reviews Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is surely one of the most hotly anticipated films of 2016, so getting right to the (hor)crux of the matter: it is suitably magical. Affable magizoologist and...
News of the Week – 5th Feb 2016 Eddie Falvey February 5, 2016 News The Weekly Report All news contained herein corresponds to the world of film. The Weekly Report will seek to cover general film news that has emerged over the last seven days. The End of...
Should Eddie Redmayne Be Playing A Trans Woman In The Danish Girl? Tom Bond December 31, 2015 Analysis, Debate, Features This week sees the release of The Danish Girl, Tom Hooper's long-awaited film about Lili Elbe (born Einar Wegener), the first person to ever undergo gender reassignment surgery. The lead role is played by the...
The Danish Girl – Review Tom Bond December 28, 2015 Reviews We’ve come a long way since the days of Lili Elbe and Gerde Wegener. Transgender issues that made chaos of their lives now have mainstream acceptance, but Hooper’s direction is refreshingly frank about how...
COMPETITION – Win Jupiter Ascending on Blu-ray! David Brake June 29, 2015 Competitions To celebrate the release of the stunning space epic Jupiter Ascending, out now on Blu-ray 3D, Blu-ray & DVD, we’re giving you the amazing chance to win a copy on Blu-ray! Here's the plot: Mila Kunis...
Impossibly Early Oscar Predictions – 2015-16 Calum Baker March 3, 2015 Analysis, Features, One Off 2 Comments Okay ORWeenies, it's that time of year again. After we punted for Gone Girl, Interstellar, Inherent Vice, Into the Woods, Unbroken and Foxcatcher last time (as well as Theory of Everything, Imitation Game,...