Film

The Dictator

Posted 7:40pm Sunday 27th May 2012 by Critic

This is Cohen’s third appearance as the lead in a film after the hit Borat and the less successful Bruno. The movie is closer in style to Borat than Bruno, although unlike Borat the movie is fully scripted. The movie follows North African dictator Admiral General Aladeen, ruler of the state Read more...

Chinese Takeaway

Posted 7:40pm Sunday 27th May 2012 by Sam Allen

Chinese Takeaway opens with a Chinese man preparing to propose to his lover on a boat. This proposal is cut short when a cow falls from the sky and kills her. After seeing Jun (Huang Sheng Huang) thrown out of a taxi while watching aeroplanes, hardware shop owner Roberto (Ricardo Darin) Read more...

The Five Year Engagement

Posted 7:58pm Sunday 20th May 2012 by Taryn Dryfhout

The Five Year Engagement opens with Tom proposing to his girlfriend Violet. As the pair start to plan their wedding, Violet is accepted into a graduate psychology program in Michigan, an offer she can’t resist. Tom selflessly drops his career and moves to Michigan to be with Violet on the agreement Read more...

Beauty and the Beast (3D)

Posted 7:58pm Sunday 20th May 2012 by Michaela Hunter

Tale as old as time… Beauty and the Beast was actually my favourite movie as kid; and now as an adult I can fully appreciate all of Disney’s racism and sexism, which is cool ... The storyline basically goes like this: Belle is a beautiful lady who likes to read books (shock, horror!) and Read more...

The Avengers

Posted 7:08pm Sunday 13th May 2012 by Nick Hornstein

Several years in the making, The Avengers concludes a long journey that Marvel began with the hit Iron Man in 2008. With such a well-orchestrated tease through the previous movies, the question remained whether the hype of The Avengers could be met. The answer to that is a gamma radiated, super Read more...

A Dangerous Method

Posted 7:08pm Sunday 13th May 2012 by Eve Duckworth

Based on the play The Talking Cure, David Cronenberg directs this drama based on the true story of the turbulent love triangle that developed between two towering intellectuals – Sigmund Freud (Viggo Mortensen) and Carl Jung (Michael Fassbender) – and a troubled patient (Kiera Knightley). Seduced by Read more...

Spud

Posted 7:08pm Sunday 13th May 2012 by Emma Scammell

After some preparatory research before watching this film I discovered that the historical context of Spud was 1990s South Africa, a pivotal time for South African people. The 1990s saw the abolition of apartheid, the release of Nelson Mandela after 27 years’ imprisonment, and the birth of Read more...

The Way

Posted 7:08pm Sunday 13th May 2012 by Lulu Sandston

The Way is a fictional story about the “Way of St James” or “El Camino Santiago”, a pilgrimage from the French Pyrenees to the cathedral of Santiago de Compostela in northwest Spain. The story is about Tom (Martin Sheen), an ophthalmologist who isn’t interested in seeing the world (how ironic) and Read more...

A Separation

Posted 12:51am Monday 7th May 2012 by Loulou Callister-Baker

When I think about the topic of divorce in film, I conjure up scenes of slightly comedic melodrama which only goes so far as the Jennifer Aniston and Vince Vaughn types can take it. I had thought that divorce in film was a topic left to the cardboard world of cliché until the Oscar-winning film A Read more...

The Most Fun You Can Have Dying

Posted 12:51am Monday 7th May 2012 by Nicole Muriel

Michael (Matt Whelan) is around about your age. Like you, probably, he’d been reasonably assuming that he was at the start of his life. Now he’s got terminal cancer.  Michael’s only option is an expensive treatment that raises his chance of survival to a dismal 10%, and his town manages to Read more...