Wonder Woman 1984 – Review Anna McKibbin December 17, 2020 Reviews Towards the end of Wonder Woman 1984, Diana Prince (Gal Gadot) desperately shouts “why are you doing this?” at the villain cackling maniacally down at her. It feels twistedly cathartic to hear this as an...
Downsizing – Review Jack Blackwell January 14, 2018 Reviews This film was previously reviewed on 30/08/17 as part of Venice Film Festival. Alexander Payne returns with a strange, ambitious, and often pummellingly downbeat story. After Norwegian scientists make the...
Downsizing – Venice 2017 Review Jack Blackwell August 30, 2017 Reviews Alexander Payne kicks off the 2017 Venice Film Festival with a strange, ambitious, and often pummellingly downbeat story. After Norwegian scientists make the miraculous breakthrough of cellular miniaturisation...
Sausage Party – Review Naomi Soanes September 3, 2016 Reviews We never thought it could happen, but it appears that Seth Rogen has finally fallen victim to his own success. The fantastic trailer gave us high hopes – and the concept alone of a sausage trying to save...
Was The Anger Over Ghostbusters Justified? Kambole Campbell July 21, 2016 Analysis, Features, Opinion With the announcement of the Ghostbusters reboot and its all-female, all-SNL veteran leading cast, the internet divided in two. Or potentially a few more pieces. People mostly either embraced the idea of a new...
Ghostbusters – Review Sian Brett July 12, 2016 Reviews It could have gone so many ways. But there are countless genuine great laughs throughout Ghostbusters, which continue the whole film through - the sign of a truly great comedy. Kate McKinnon is a...
Scene Stealers: Melissa McCarthy in Bridesmaids Louise Burrell June 9, 2016 Analysis, Features, Scene Stealers Melissa McCarthy has carved herself quite the lucrative niche in recent years, playing the loud, brash character who will say literally anything to get a laugh. Her latest comedy vehicle The Boss hits UK...
Kristen Wiig: Comedy Darling, Drama Queen Rachel Brook April 7, 2016 Analysis, Features, Spotlight This week Kristen Wiig stars in Nasty Baby, perhaps her most indie project yet – aesthetically at least. The trailer seems to promise an inky black sense of humour in the vein of Ben Wheatley’s...
Welcome to Me – Review Tom Bond March 27, 2016 Reviews Welcome to Me is powered by a phenomenal performance from Kristen Wiig as Alice Krieg, a woman with borderline personality disorder who starts her own TV show. She nails Alice’s complex character and even...
Zoolander 2 – Review Tom Bond February 10, 2016 Reviews Zoolander 2 boasts a plot far sillier than its predecessor – no mean feat, but very much a good thing – and is far more interested in drama and action. These latter elements are less successful, as...
Trainwreck and Talking Bodies: Are Jokes About Periods the New Feminist Film Revolution? David Brake August 19, 2015 Analysis, Features, Opinion About halfway through Amy Schumer's breakout debut Trainwreck, her protagonist (also named Amy) explains to her sister that she's terrified of falling for her romantic lead because, in her experience of...
Should The Diary Of A Teenage Girl Be Rated 18? Eddie Falvey August 11, 2015 Analysis, Features, Opinion This feature contains mild spoilers for The Diary of a Teenage Girl. The primary topic of discussion surrounding the release of Marielle Heller's Sundance hit The Diary of a Teenage Girl has been its...
The Diary Of A Teenage Girl – Review Nick Evan-Cook August 8, 2015 Reviews Questions about its certification aside, writer-director Marielle Heller's Sundance hit The Diary of a Teenage Girl succeeds thanks to its honest, intelligent script and a bold, star-making performance...
Second Chance: MacGruber Stephen O'Nion March 4, 2015 Features, Nostalgia, Second Chance MacGruber: making life-saving inventions out of household materials. How many films feature a primary antagonist falling to their death? Die Hard, sure. The Return of the King, check. GoldenEye, there’s...
Nasty Baby – Berlinale 2015 Review Nick Evan-Cook February 13, 2015 Reviews Chock-full of surprises and nigh-on indefinable, Nasty Baby shocks, subverts and delights in equal measure - to say much more would risk revealing too much. Sharp and sardonic, this naturalistically-acted...