Team Talk – Venom Naomi Soanes October 8, 2018 Reviews Shrouded by rumours of production difficulties and creative differences in the cutting room, Ruben Fleischer’s iteration of Venom hit cinemas this week with the almost universally preconceived – perhaps...
Venom – Review Phil W. Bayles October 3, 2018 Reviews There's a line in Venom about a "turd in the wind" that seems tailor-made for angry critics. But to use it in a review would give the screenwriters too much credit. It would be easy to blame all the...
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...
Your Week In Film: Zellweger, Mendelsohn, Hardy and more! Stephen O'Nion October 27, 2017 News 1. First photo from Venom bodes well for lens flare fans We finally have a photo from Tom Hardy’s upcoming inhabitation of the infamous Marvel villain, Venom. Of course, it’s just a candid photo from the...
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....
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...
Your Week In Film: Trainspotting, Escape Planning, Snow Whiting and more! Stephen O'Nion November 4, 2016 News 1. The Flash loses its director. Again. Just four months after jumping on board, Rick Famuyiwa has departed Warner Bros’ adaptation of The Flash citing “creative differences”. According to The...
Your Week In Film: Cranston, Death Wish, Finding Dory, Vader, and more… Stephen O'Nion June 24, 2016 News 1. Bryan Cranston gets suit, less hirsute as Power Rangers’ Zordon Slowly amassing a cast it surely has no right to, Power Rangers has found itself a booming baldie to play the role of the Mighty Morphin’...
Casting Call – James Bond Tom Bond May 19, 2016 Behind The Curtain, Casting Call, Features 2 Comments With today's news appearing to confirm what we all suspected - that Daniel Craig will not return as 007 - who are the best candidates to take over the most coveted role in British film? Tom Hiddleston...
The Revenant – Review Thom Denson January 16, 2016 Reviews Born from what's now becoming infamous as one of the most demanding shoots of all time, masterful filmmaker Iñárritu drags his camera through the frozen upper midwest and, with it, the shredded nerves...
Top 20 Films of 2015: 2. Mad Max: Fury Road Tom Bond December 30, 2015 Analysis, Features, Top 10 Mad Max: Fury Road is undoubtedly one of the best action blockbusters of 2015. It’s also one of the most progressive, subversive and openly political films to reach such a mass audience in recent memory. It...
Tom Hardy – the Man, the Myth and the Legend Nick Evan-Cook September 11, 2015 Analysis, Features, Spotlight It's difficult to pinpoint exactly the moment in which Tom Hardy transitioned from the dependable, somewhat memorable supporting actor of Band of Brothers, Black Hawk Down and various Brit-crime films to...
Legend – CFF Review Rachel Brook September 9, 2015 Reviews Legend is a mixed bag, combining undeniable technical brilliance with hokey pseudo-romance. However, framing the myth of the Krays from Frances’ perspective pays off by foregrounding the instability of this...
Blazing the Fury Road: Rise of the Feminist Action Hero Madeline Joint June 25, 2015 Analysis, Features, Opinion Well, Fury Road is pretty exciting, huh? No really. In a whole bunch of cultural ways, it's pretty goddamn exciting. Its female protagonist Furiosa, played by the frighteningly brilliant Charlize Theron, is...
London Road – Interview with Anita Dobson Tori Brazier June 9, 2015 Behind The Curtain, Features, Interview Anita Dobson stars in new musical London Road, alongside Olivia Colman, Tom Hardy and the entire cast of the original theatre production, which had two successful runs at the National Theatre. Based on...