Film

Half a Yellow Sun

Posted 3:11pm Sunday 11th May 2014 by Sydney Lehman

Rating: A I do not know what war means. I say this with as much education on the subject as the average person. I understand it in theory, but emotionally – the reality of being prepared to flee for my life at a moment’s notice, an air raid bomb about to go off next to me, losing my friends, Read more...

Little Rascals (1994)

Posted 4:20pm Sunday 4th May 2014 by Rosie Howells

Classic Film The one glimmer of light in the otherwise horrid time period that constitutes the school holidays is that general access television plays impeccable children’s films (I use the term “children” very lightly). Nothing could have soothed my pain of riding on a bus full of fondling Read more...

The Lego Movie

Posted 4:20pm Sunday 4th May 2014 by Sydney Lehman

Rating: B+ LEGO: “a construction toy consisting of interlocking plastic building blocks.” Riveting. But seriously, within the parameters of what is and is not possible to do with LEGO, Phil Lord and Christopher Miller created what was actually a very delightful film. These two appear to be a Read more...

Like Father, Like Son

Posted 4:20pm Sunday 4th May 2014 by Baz Macdonald

Rating: A+ Set in Japan, Like Father, Like Son tells the story of two families who, after raising their sons for six years, discover that their children were switched at birth. This revelation poses the families with a number of seemingly unanswerable questions: What makes someone family? To Read more...

Muppets Most Wanted

Posted 4:20pm Sunday 4th May 2014 by Ashley Anderson

Rating: A+ After securing their studio back in The Muppets (2011), the loveable Muppet crew are back for another whirlwind musical adventure. Kermit (as himself, obviously) and the gang start their world tour with new manager Dominic Badguy (Ricky Gervais). Alas, Dominic is revealed to be a Read more...

Captain America: The Winter Soldier

Posted 1:58pm Sunday 27th April 2014 by Baz Macdonald

Rating: A There have been moments in the past decade when the abundance of superhero movies became tedious. With everybody rushing to join this trend, there were years where all we got was origin story after origin story. Now, however, I feel we have entered the golden age of the genre, as we Read more...

The selfish giant

Posted 1:58pm Sunday 27th April 2014 by Andrew Kwiatkowski

Rating: A- The Selfish Giant is bleak. Not only is it about two brats, Arbor and Swifty, being expelled from school and scratching a living pilfering scrap metal for a crooked bookie in an impoverished town in Northern England, it also features a beautiful horse being electrocuted and melted Read more...

Tracks

Posted 1:58pm Sunday 27th April 2014 by Sydney Lehman

Rating: A Tracks is one of the most powerful films I have seen. The cinematography is breathtakingly beautiful, as is the expansive and dangerous Australian desert. Normally, I don’t love journey films; or films about endless and repetitive landscapes such as deserts, oceans and space. Read more...

The Grand Budapest Hotel

Posted 1:58pm Sunday 27th April 2014 by Rosie Howells

Rating: A There is no way to adequately summarise The Grand Budapest Hotel’s plot in a couple of sentences, but it must be done for the purposes of this review, so please keep in mind the following paragraph does not remotely do the film justice. The Grand Budapest Hotel follows the eponymous Read more...

Romeo and Juliet

Posted 4:31pm Sunday 13th April 2014 by Baz Macdonald

Rating: C It’s clearly not easy to adapt a classic from the stage to the screen. Many have tried and very few have succeeded. When Shakespeare is involved, these adaptations invoke the question: do you try and stay loyal to the context and language of the original text? Or do you modernise it Read more...