All the Money in the World – Review Phil W. Bayles January 4, 2018 Reviews The fact that All the Money in the World was released at all is impressive. When news first broke about the alleged sexual misconduct of Kevin Spacey – originally cast to play billionaire J. Paul Getty –...
Daddy’s Home 2 – Review Naomi Soanes November 26, 2017 Reviews There's a recurring theme in the stream of sequels we’re seeing this Christmas season; obnoxious parents, whiney kids, and a penchant to portray pseudo-sentimental family matters. Daddy’s Home 2 is no...
Transformers: The Last Knight – Review Phil W. Bayles June 21, 2017 Reviews Here’s a drinking game for you: take a shot every time Optimus Prime feels the need to remind us of his name over the course of Transformers: The Last Knight. You’d think that, after five of these movies,...
Patriots Day – Review Tom Bond February 25, 2017 Reviews Mark Wahlberg loves Boston more than you love your own mother. So who better to play the lead in Patriots Day, this emotive dramatisation of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing? Wahlberg and director Peter Berg...
Your Week In Film: Remakes, Reunions, Revelations, Repetition and Repetition! Stephen O'Nion October 7, 2016 News 1. Chloë Grace Moretz drops that whole hiatus thing, signs on for Suspiria remake It was only a few weeks ago that Chloë Grace Moretz told The Hollywood Reporter that she was taking some time off to...
Deepwater Horizon – Review Naomi Soanes October 2, 2016 Reviews We've seen an increasing amount of industrial "docufilms" in recent years - Captain Phillips and Flight, to name but a couple. But the interesting thing about Horizon is that it is a glimpse into a shady...
Your Week In Film: The Rock, ‘Rangers, Robin Hood, ‘Rim and more! Stephen O'Nion September 23, 2016 News 1. The Greatest Movie Of All Time’s sequel builds its cast Pacific Rim 2, the sequel that everyone wants—and if you don’t, take a good, long hard at yourself—has started to kick into gear ahead of...
Music of the Movies: Rap Music Eddie Falvey August 27, 2015 Behind The Curtain, Features, Music of the Movies For the most part, the reception to the incoming (in the UK, at least) N.W.A biopic Straight Outta Compton has been surprisingly positive. Despite boasting a running time that rivals Gladiator - the film...
Ted 2 – Review Tom Bond July 8, 2015 Reviews Moving away from Ted’s tiring and prehistoric gender dynamic (mostly), Ted 2 introduces a more inspiring goal…freedom. Comparing Ted’s plight to slavery is of course ridiculous, and MacFarlane treads...
Entourage: The What and the Why, God, Why? Stephen O'Nion February 9, 2015 Analysis, Features, Opinion Entourage ended on the 11th of September 2011. The show concluded with the cast riding off into the sunset. Entourage being Entourage, the gang rode off in a plane. Two planes. Two private planes. And a...
The Gambler – Review Stephen O'Nion January 25, 2015 Reviews 1 Comment Quoth Kenny Rogers: If you're gonna play the game, boy, you gotta learn to play it right. Jim Bennett (Wahlberg) can’t play it right - can’t play anything right - and so skulks along like a sullen...
Transformers: Age of Extinction – Review Christopher Preston July 4, 2014 Reviews 3 Comments Michael Bay isn’t a film director. He’s a demolition expert, and a damn good one at that. So much destruction explodes across Age of Extinction, in fact, that it appears to have shellshocked any semblance...
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...
Lone Survivor – Review Stephen O'Nion January 29, 2014 Reviews Lone Survivor's dialogue speaks for itself: "If I die, I want you to make sure that Cindy knows how much I love her, and that I died with my brothers." Incidentally, this is no spoiler when three of our lead...
A Beginner’s Guide To… Michael Bay Chris Davies December 17, 2013 A Beginner's Guide To..., Analysis, Features 4 Comments One of Hollywood’s most financially successful filmmakers yet often critically derided, Bay has directed films such as Bad Boys, The Rock, Pearl Harbor and the Transformers trilogy. During the 1980s, two...