Short of the Week – Home James Andrews March 13, 2017 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhrWuMzK7Mo An average British family are getting ready for a trip. Mum and Dad are rounding up their two young children, checking their route online and loading a...
Money Monster – Review Phil W. Bayles May 29, 2016 Reviews For most of its 100-minute runtime, Money Monster is on the verge of becoming a truly great satire. An intimate hostage situation explodes into a media circus that feels like Network as written by Charlie...
Spotlight: Jack O’Connell Naomi Soanes May 24, 2016 Analysis, Features, Spotlight Just when you thought the historic cast of Skins were done crawling out of the woodwork, here comes Jack O’Connell to blast them out of the water. The last decade has seen a smattering of Skins alumni...
Unbroken – Review Rachel Brook December 27, 2014 Reviews A faultlessly modulated performance from O’Connell holds together a film of imbalanced fragments. Lifeless dramatisation of Zamperini’s childhood suffers in comparison to better realised scenes of his...
’71 – LFF Review Cameron Ward September 29, 2014 Reviews Yann Demange’s feature debut relentlessly shifts from ambient tension to blunt horror time and time again, in what must be 2014’s most flagrant display of up-and-coming British talent. ‘71’s erratic...
Starred Up – Review Christopher Preston March 20, 2014 Reviews Starred Up serves its porridge with bits of broken glass. It grins as it spits teeth, just as likely to erupt into another volcanic episode of violence as it is to cough up a pearl of prison wisdom. Jack...
300: Rise of an Empire – Review Christopher Preston March 4, 2014 Reviews 2 Comments 300 was brawny entertainment back in 2006, pumped full of radioactive testosterone. But this feeble sort-of sequel exhibits a warrior well past its prime. Weak and saggy, the once-chiseled abs have melted into...