Seventh Son – Review Stephen O'Nion March 29, 2015 Reviews Pop quiz, hotshot! What comes after “You chose this life”? A - “It chose me.” B - “Don’t talk to me about life.” C - “You can't hide from destiny.” Chose A? Congratulations!* Here’s $95...
Music of the Movies: Joni Mitchell Rachel Brook March 11, 2015 Behind The Curtain, Features, Music of the Movies Celebrated Canadian singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell has recorded twenty two albums in a career spanning more than forty years and ranging across the genres of folk, jazz, and pop. She’s even been named...
Still Alice – Review Rachel Brook March 9, 2015 Reviews Still Alice is increasingly immersive, with dynamic camerawork and layered soundscapes replicating Alice’s perceptions for the audience, and conveying her alarmingly rapid decline. In comparison,...
Golden Globes 2015 Results David Brake January 12, 2015 Analysis, Features, One Off The Hollywood Foreign Press Association has spoken! The Golden Globes 2015 results are in and there's a strong selection of winners. Richard Linklater's tremendous Boyhood scooped Best Motion Picture - Drama...
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 – Review Christopher Preston November 24, 2014 Reviews The Hunger Games hasn’t given birth to twins. Instead, it has stretched out the limbs of its concluding chapter to the point of cracking dislocation. The bite of the adaptation’s first instalments has...
Maps to the Stars – Review Rachel Brook September 28, 2014 Reviews As critics map the stars of Cronenberg’s latest, the facial and vocal contortions of Moore’s transformation into the uptalking over-sharer Havana will make her a focal point - but no one in Maps puts a...
Maybeland: Children of Men Madeline Joint July 13, 2014 Features, Independent, Maybeland In 2027 the youngest human on Earth is killed. None will come after him. They’ve all stopped: there are no more pregnancies, no more births, no more babies, and no answers. In the chaos of the 18 years since...
Non-Stop – Review Christopher Preston March 3, 2014 Reviews 1 Comment In recent years, Liam Neeson has punched one half of a Middle-Eastern crime family, identity thieves, a pack of wolves, and the other half of said Middle-Eastern crime family. Now he has to punch an endangered...
A Beginner’s Guide to…Paul Thomas Anderson Patrick Taylor February 16, 2014 A Beginner's Guide To..., Analysis, Features 1 Comment When it comes to directors in Western cinema over the last twenty years, Paul Thomas Anderson is without equal. Coming from a long line of American filmmakers who burst suddenly onto the scene and went from...
Don Jon – Review Chris Davies November 12, 2013 Reviews Actor, singer and professional handsome man Joseph Gordon-Levitt can now add writer and director to his list of accolades thanks to one of the year’s finest comedies. JGL ensures his eponymous narcissist...