Bones and All – Review Tom Bond November 25, 2022 Reviews This film was previously reviewed in September 2022 as part of our Venice Film Festival coverage. With Bones and All, Luca Guadagnino combines the romantic coming-of-age story of Call Me By Your Name with...
Ready Player One – Review Tom Bond March 20, 2018 Reviews Steven Spielberg: we’re not angry, we’re just disappointed. And also quite angry, to be honest. The man himself could be blindfolded and still direct one of the best films of any given year, but in...
Top 20 Films of 2017: #5 – Dunkirk Louise Burrell December 27, 2017 Analysis, Features, Top 10 In May 1940, 400,000 allied soldiers found themselves stranded on the beaches of Dunkirk, penned in by German troops and sitting ducks for attacks from the Luftwaffe. What followed was a huge evacuation...
Team Talk – Dunkirk Louise Burrell July 23, 2017 Reviews With Christopher Nolan at the helm and a cast made up of the likes of Kenneth Branagh, Cillian Murphy, Tom Hardy, and Mark Rylance, it's safe to say Dunkirk has received its fair share of pre-release hype....
From Stage To Screen: How Mark Rylance Ruled Hollywood Tori Brazier July 22, 2017 Analysis, Features, Spotlight Sir Mark Rylance is currently having a bit of a moment on the international stage – and one which looks set to continue this week with the release of Christopher Nolan’s war epic Dunkirk. Until recently...
Dunkirk – Review Phil W. Bayles July 18, 2017 Reviews The opening 20 minutes of Dunkirk are as visceral and arresting as the beach landings in Saving Private Ryan. The difference is that, unlike Spielberg, Christopher Nolan doesn’t relieve the tension – even...
Casting Call – Young Dumbledore Tom Bond November 11, 2016 Behind The Curtain, Casting Call, Features With Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, the first film in J.K. Rowling’s fledgling magiverse, hitting cinema screens this week, Warner Bros. have capitalised on the publicity with two casting...
The BFG – Review Eddie Falvey July 24, 2016 Reviews It's hard to think of a more faithful recent adaptation than Spielberg's The BFG. Certainly among blockbusters, it is absolutely the work of a filmmaker caught under the spell of a much-loved novel. The...
Your Week In Film: Spielberg, Spidey, Spies, Sequel Splicing, and Strange Stephen O'Nion April 15, 2016 News 1. AMC Theatres reject text-friendly theatres, evil The CEO of AMC Theatres, Adam Aron, has admitted in an interview with Variety that the company have been looking to experiment with text-friendly cinemas...
A Beginner’s Guide To…Tom Hanks Patrick Taylor December 1, 2015 A Beginner's Guide To..., Analysis, Features In many respects, Thomas Jeffrey Hanks is Mr Hollywood. He has starred in some of the most critically acclaimed films of the last 25 years, bagging a couple of Oscars along the way. Beyond his acting work...
Bridge of Spies – Review Tom Bond November 25, 2015 Reviews For someone so universally loved, Steven Spielberg can be quite a divisive director. Sometimes his sentimentality and upstanding morals warm your heart, and sometimes they stick in your throat. Bridge of Spies...