Obvious Child – Sundance London Review Tom Bond April 26, 2014 Reviews 1 Comment Have you ever been to one of those stand-up gigs where the comedian succeeds through sheer force of personality? That’s Obvious Child, and its lead, Jenny Slate. The story is insubstantial and the humour...
Blue Ruin – Sundance London Review Tom Bond April 26, 2014 Reviews 1 Comment Macon Blair is crazy and a tramp as the shell-shocked hobo with a shotgun seeking vengeance. His beginnings as a bearded vagrant are brushed over too quickly, but Blair is excellent, a wide-eyed bag of nerves...
The Trip to Italy – Sundance London Review Tom Bond April 26, 2014 Reviews 1 Comment La bella Italia, La Dolce Vita – it’s all on display in this glorious Grand Tour, full of good friends and good food and, most of all, full of laughter. Brydon, and Coogan in particular, are less...
Under the Electric Sky – Sundance London Review Christopher Preston April 25, 2014 Reviews Under the Electric Sky is a ridiculous film which exhibits ridiculous people. Shot during 2013’s Electric Daisy Carnival it offers zero accessibility and little of interest to anyone not already associated...
Frank – Sundance London Review Christopher Preston April 25, 2014 Reviews 1 Comment “What goes on inside that head?” Michael Fassbender goes one better than Karl Urban’s Judge Dredd in the bizarrely sublime (or is that sublimely bizarre?) Frank. This is a film which, given a chance...
Fruitvale Station – Sundance London Review Christopher Preston April 24, 2014 Reviews 2 Comments Shuddering footage extrapolated from a cellphone shows a group of black men sitting on a station floor. One is thrown down and a bang stings the air. Fruitvale Station begins with an ending. Michael B. Jordan...
The One I Love – Sundance London Review Christopher Preston April 23, 2014 Reviews The One I Love is a crumpled-up love letter being tumble-dried inside one of the drums of The Twilight Zone. Charlie McDowell manages to crack open a window and pump a fresh breeze into a genre bloated with...
Drunktown’s Finest – Sundance London Review Christopher Preston April 22, 2014 Reviews Drunktown’s Finest is Sydney Freeland’s directorial debut on a feature - and it shows. This film, which combines the increasingly interwoven stories of three young Native Americans, is never quite able to...
Transcendence – Review Christopher Preston April 21, 2014 Reviews Which is worse: a bad film or a disappointing one? Transcendence manages to be both at the same time. Wally Pfister’s directorial debut is a fractured crazy pavement, cementing together thick slabs of...
Where Are They Now?: Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone David Brake April 20, 2014 Features, Nostalgia, Where Are They Now? 1 Comment It's been 4752 days since Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone hit the silver screen. In that time, the world found out who Barack Obama was, the iPod/iPhone/iPad all entered existence and Facebook &...
Making It Big: Somewhere The King David Brake April 16, 2014 Features, Independent, Making It Big 1 Comment Students, eh? A mass band of mad, crazy, drink riddled folk acting as a burden to society, right? Well, there are a few who buck the trend. Although we can't comment on the filmmaker's relation with madness...
Calvary – Review Christopher Preston April 14, 2014 Reviews A darkness hangs over Calvary; as bleak and angry as a pregnant thundercloud. Those hoping for a thematic sequel to The Guard will quickly discover that they won’t find it here. Calvary isn’t perfect; the...
Music of the Movies: Wes Anderson Andy J Smith April 13, 2014 Behind The Curtain, Features, Music of the Movies When it comes to stylised quirkiness and off-the-wall humour, there is one film maker who stands out against all others, and that is the inimitable writer and director Wes Anderson. Having carved himself a...
The Raid 2 – Review Tom Bond April 11, 2014 Reviews 1 Comment Get ready for your new favourite fight scenes. Baseball Boy. Hammer Girl. The hotplate. The mudbath bloodbath. And oh boy, if you thought Gravity was visceral cinema then the kitchen showdown is here to...
The Citizen Kane of Awful: Titanic – The Legend Goes On Tom Bond April 10, 2014 Features, Nostalgia, The Citizen Kane of Awful 1 Comment Cast: Lisa Russo, Mark Thompson-Ashworth, Silva Belton Director: Camillo Teti Writer: Camillo Teti Estimated Budget: Unknown U.S. Gross: Unknown When I say Titanic, what do you think of?...