Terminator Genisys – Review Tom Bond July 2, 2015 Reviews Terminator Genisys throws the franchise’s classic characters and story beats together in what feels more like a Greatest Hits remix than a reboot. Normally that would infuriate, but Taylor’s direction...
The Water Diviner – Review Bertie Archer April 1, 2015 Reviews The Water Diviner is a poignant, beautiful and captivating film, showing the ongoing ravages on both sides after WW1’s Gallipoli campaign. The extraordinary courage needed from a man who lost everything...
Insurgent – Review Tori Brazier March 23, 2015 Reviews The teen dystopian book adaptation trend continues with a vengeance in Insurgent. This tricky middle tome of the Divergent series, where (seemingly) lots happens with an impressive crash, bang and wallop on...
By The Book: I, Frankenstein David Brake February 1, 2014 Analysis, By The Book, Features 1 Comment Welcome to By The Book. Every fortnight, we’ll compare a book with its visual adaptation. Are they faithful and delightful partners in storytelling or are the authors turning in their graves through these...
I, Frankenstein – Review David Brake January 30, 2014 Reviews 1 Comment I, Frankenstein is one-part Mary Shelley to three thousand parts "makers of the Underworld quadrilogy". Apart from Frankenstein's Monster – here named Adam and unbelievably ripped for a quasi-zombie –...