Film

Oz the Great and Powerful (3D)

Posted 4:23pm Sunday 10th March 2013 by Jonny Mahon-Heap

To say that the resurgence of fairytales within recent blockbusters has yielded mixed results would be an understatement. From the commercially successful but creatively bankrupt (Alice in Wonderland, Snow White and the Huntsman), to those bankrupt both commercially and creatively (Little Red Riding Read more...

I Give It A Year

Posted 4:23pm Sunday 10th March 2013 by Tim Lindsay

I Give it a Year is a pleasant deviation from your run of the mill rom-com. Dan Mazer, known for his production and writing roles in Ali G Indahouse, Borat, Brüno, and The Dictator superbly balances cringe-worthy humour with more subtle hilarity and raises serious questions about love, married life Read more...

Amour

Posted 4:23pm Sunday 10th March 2013 by Jonny Mahon-Heap

Director Michael Haneke is comfortable with depicting horror. Whether capturing a home invasion in Funny Games, or pre-World War 2 atrocities in The White Ribbon, his slowly built tension and pace creates very creepy, yet successful films – Amour won the Palme d’Or and the New York Times film of Read more...

The Sweeney

Posted 5:18pm Sunday 3rd March 2013 by Kathleen Hanna

I had a real problem with this film, more so than any other crime film I’ve seen. The tagline for The Sweeney is “act like a criminal to catch a criminal.” It’s not the moral ambiguity of that I have a problem with. Hell, all movies should be morally ambiguous up to a point, especially those in Read more...

Beautiful Creatures

Posted 5:18pm Sunday 3rd March 2013 by S M Morgan

Beautiful Creatures is a supernatural fantasy, adapted from a book, which jumps right into things six months before the lead’s, Lena’s, birthday. On her birthday her powers will be claimed for either the “light” (good) or “dark” (evil) depending on the judgement of her “true nature,” which will Read more...

Safe Haven

Posted 5:18pm Sunday 3rd March 2013 by Rosie Howells

Straight off the bat, you should know I’m not built for “Soul-Searching-Romance.” I didn’t even enjoy The Holiday, which I understand essentially makes me The Tin Man, or Kim Jong Il, or something. So I was a little worried to hear that Safe Haven’s writer Nicholas Sparks is also responsible for Read more...

Anna Karenina

Posted 10:25pm Sunday 24th February 2013 by Sam McChesney

Patriarchy sucks mad d. From the creators of Pride and Prejudice (2005) comes one of the best-looking films since, well, Pride and Prejudice. Adapted from Tolstoy’s novel, which was recently named the greatest ever by Time magazine, Anna Karenina stars Keira Knightley and ... that guy from Read more...

A Good Day To Die Hard

Posted 10:23pm Sunday 24th February 2013 by Christine Edwards

So John McClane is back, and this time he’s wreaking havoc in a completely new place: Russia. As always, this Die Hard is about a badass cop who seems to be in the wrong place at the wrong time and, to make things right, goes in guns blazing and kicks the bad guy’s arse. This newest instalment, Read more...

Movie 43

Posted 10:23pm Sunday 24th February 2013 by Josie Cochrane

I had zero hopes for this movie before viewing, based largely on the film editor’s opening email to me: “Review Movie 43 – apparently one of the worst films of all time. Go on, I dare you.” A dare is a dare of course! Even with my low hopes, my first text when I left the movie was “Well mum, Read more...

Hitchcock

Posted 10:23pm Sunday 24th February 2013 by Finn Bulman

A movie about the making of a movie. Sure, it may have been done before, but Hitchcock pulls it off wonderfully. The story follows the life of famous film director Alfred Hitchcock, or “Hitch,” as he goes about creating one of the greatest horror films of all time, Psycho. He is met with Read more...