Top 10 Roald Dahl Adaptations Ellen Dwyer November 23, 2015 Analysis, Features, Top 10 "Matilda said 'Never do anything by halves if you want to get away with it. Be outrageous. Go the whole hog. Make sure everything you do is so completely crazy it's unbelievable..."' The 23rd of November...
Black Mass – LFF Review Tori Brazier October 12, 2015 Reviews Ably supported by a heavyweight cast, superior acting reigns supreme throughout this engrossing enough story. Black Mass sees Johnny Depp exhibit a predictably excellent transformation into cold-eyed...
A Beginner’s Guide To… Tim Burton Calum Baker August 13, 2015 A Beginner's Guide To..., Analysis, Features If there's one thing Tim Burton's excellent at, it's directing films. Equally, if there's one thing Tim Burton's terrible at... it's directing films. 30 years since his feature debut, Pee-Wee's Big Adventure,...
Second Chance: Mars Attacks! Conor Morgan May 15, 2015 Features, Nostalgia, Second Chance Mars Attacks! is a misunderstood 1996 science fiction film that was overshadowed by the release of the similarly structured but far more successful Independence Day in the same year (Mars Attacks! only made...
Mortdecai – Review Phil W. Bayles January 24, 2015 Reviews 2 Comments Kyril Bonfiglioli would choke on his afternoon port if he could see what's become of his cult '70s novels. Johnny Depp turns the deliciously depraved Charlie Mortdecai into a prancing caricature, with a...
Best Films Never Made #19: Alejandro Jodorowsky’s Abel Cain and King Shot Conor Morgan August 22, 2014 Behind The Curtain, Best Films Never Made, Features 85 year old Chilean-French surrealist/mime/experimental playwright/author/comics writer/mystical therapist/artist/director/all-round fascinating guy Alejandro Jodorowsky recently premiered his first film in 23...
Ten Degrees of Trivia: Maleficent Tom Bond June 11, 2014 Features, Nostalgia, Ten Degrees of Trivia Love trivia? Love six degrees of Kevin Bacon? Then you’ve come to the right place. Ten Degrees of Trivia combines the two to take you on a journey through the world of loosely connected facts, beginning and...
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...
The Citizen Kane of Awful: The Lone Ranger Tom Bond February 26, 2014 Features, Nostalgia, The Citizen Kane of Awful 4 Comments For Your Consideration: The Lone Ranger Cast: Johnny Depp, Armie Hammer, William Fichtner, Tom Wilkinson, Helena Bonham-Carter Director: Gore Verbinski Writer: Justin Haythe, Ted Elliott, Terry...
The 25 Worst Accents In Movies Ever David Brake December 3, 2013 Analysis, Features, One Off 2 Comments Accents are a key part of any actor's repartee. Any good actor can deliver a performance that could move a grown man to tears or could make a fully packed cinema laugh raucously at their comedic aplomb BUT if...