Rocketman and the Spirit of Forgiveness Stephanie Watts May 29, 2019 Analysis, Features, Opinion It can be difficult to fully forgive. Forgiving others can be trying, and self-forgiveness can sometimes feel downright impossible. Rocketman, the glitzy, musical biopic of Elton John’s life, is grounded in...
Avengers: Endgame – Review Jack King April 23, 2019 Reviews Eleven years in the making, Avengers: Endgame is the finale to Marvel’s epic cinematic universe, one which has consistently broken box office records and won vast critical praise, combining its blockbuster...
Who Will Die in Infinity War? Jack Blackwell April 25, 2018 Analysis, Features, One Off As the official Most Hyped Film Of All Time, Avengers: Infinity War is a source of non-stop speculation about its story. As the culmination of 10 years of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, it should be an...
Your Week In Film: Creed, Cronkite, Crushing Business Acumen Stephen O'Nion December 15, 2017 News 1. The tale of the mouse, the fox and $52.4 billion… The Walt Disney Co. has, at last, concluded a deal to buy a whole lot of 21st Century Fox. Fox, a substantial arm of the Murdoch media empire, is...
Team Talk – Spider-Man: Homecoming David Brake July 9, 2017 Reviews In the past 15 years, we've had three Spider-Man franchises, and three web-slinging crusaders. With Spider-Man: Homecoming out this week, we get our youngest of them all in Tom Holland, with able support from...
Spider-Man: Homecoming – Review Tom Bond June 29, 2017 Reviews Forget Tobey Maguire. Forget Andrew Garfield. Tom Holland is Spider-Man. He blows away all past competition with a star-making performance full of endearingly hyperactive charisma and a formidable screen...
A Brief History of Whitewashing in Film Eddie Falvey April 3, 2017 Analysis, Close-Up, Features Word is out that Netflix's Marvel universe has finally dropped the ball with Iron Fist, a lacklustre attempt to raise a middling character from obscurity. Likewise, if our word is anything to go by – and,...
Your Week In Film: McDormand, Dolittle, Deadpool and more! Stephen O'Nion March 24, 2017 News 1. Robert Downey Jr. to talk, grunt, squeak and squawk with the animals Robert Downey Jr. is already used to speaking to a black widow, a falcon, a black panther and an ant, man. Now he’s going to have...
Zodiac At 10: Fincher’s Forgotten Masterpiece Conor Morgan March 2, 2017 Analysis, Features, Opinion We hate to break it to all the 14-year-old boys and alt-right shitheads out there, but Fight Club is not the best film ever made. Nor is it David Fincher’s best film. The same is true of Se7en, The Social...
Your Week In Film: Batman, BAFTA, Biopics! Stephen O'Nion February 17, 2017 News 1. The BAFTAs happened February 12 saw the 70th British Academy Film Awards take place at the Royal Albert Hall. As is the custom, seats were sat in, drinks were drunk and awards were awarded. Annoyingly...
Team Talk – Captain America: Civil War Bertie Archer May 10, 2016 Reviews The dust is settling after the smashing opening weekend of the Marvel Cinematic Universe's latest blockbuster, Captain America: Civil War. Before China and the USA - the two largest markets for Avengers: Age...
Captain America: Civil War – Review Bertie Archer April 29, 2016 Reviews Civil War assembles the Avengers for an all-out all-star battle. With newcomers Black Panther and Spider-Man offering show-stealing highlights, appetites are left whetted for the future, rather than teased...
Interview Hell: Robert Downey Jr. vs. Krishnan Guru-Murthy Madeline Joint April 24, 2015 Analysis, Features, Opinion https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALBwaO-rAsE Poor RDJ. As a dedicated film fan, there’s a very good chance you’ve been in love with him at some point, but Channel 4 presenter Krishnan Guru-Murthy is...
Avengers: Age of Ultron – Review Christopher Preston April 21, 2015 Reviews Age of Ultron moonwalks assuredly past Second Album Syndrome, but doesn’t get to be the Avengers’ The Empire Strikes Back. It’s a barnstorming cyclone of spectacle, yet never manages to recapture how...
Top 10 Movie Star Cameos in Music Videos Daniel Orton January 21, 2015 Analysis, Features, Top 10 1 Comment Recently I have become quite obsessed with the George Ezra song 'Listen To The Man'. To put it more accurately, I have become quite obsessed with the song’s accompanying music video that stars the inimitable...