The Coen Brothers, Charles Portis, and True Grit Rory Steabler December 21, 2020 Features, Love Letter, Nostalgia Ten years on from its release, True Grit has settled firmly into the middle ground of Joel and Ethan Coen’s filmography. It's well-respected in the Coen canon but doesn’t seem to be many people’s...
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse – Review Jack Blackwell December 14, 2018 Reviews A new Spider-Man? Another one?! Scepticism about Into the Spider-Verse is more than understandable – after all, how many different versions of an arachno-powered youngster do we need? Spider-Verse answers...
The Edge of Seventeen – Review Naomi Soanes December 3, 2016 Reviews Move over John Hughes – Kelly Fremon Craig is in the house. And she’s just penned AND directed one of the best coming-of-age films of 2016. But while relative newcomer Craig’s work is a delight to...
Barely Lethal – Review Stephen O'Nion August 30, 2015 Reviews During Barely Lethal, our kooky-but-klutzy-but-super-trained spytagonist settles down to scout an environment that’d test any agent: high school, via Mean Girls. Anyone who fancies a teen movie with bite...
Pitch Perfect 2 – Review Bertie Archer May 18, 2015 Reviews Anna Kendrick and her singing sisters are back. This time competing against a superior German group in a series of increasingly impressive arrangements and routines. Routine is the operative word and "second...
Begin Again – Review Rachel Brook July 13, 2014 Reviews 1 Comment Once creator John Carney again blends music and storytelling (in that order) in this likeable dramedy which slowly gets under the skin. Opening with an intelligent use of two perspectives which combine in...
3 Days to Kill – Review Stephen O'Nion June 20, 2014 Reviews 1 Comment Kevin Costner is Ethan Renner. Fresh from washing his mouth with gravel and his brain with cancer, he must injure and kill anyone he comes across to satisfy the wishes of his handler, Amber Heard… ... An...
Ender’s Game – Review Stephen O'Nion November 4, 2013 Reviews 1 Comment In the wake of Will, Matt and Tom’s duds, it falls to Asa “boy in the Tron spacejamas” Butterfield to deliver 2013’s decent sci-fi flick. Well, damn. Gavin Hood’s adaptation of Orson Scott...