Dead of Winter

Posted 2:48pm Sunday 13th March 2016 by Campbell Calverley

The theme is the most overlooked aspect of any board game. When all of the game’s events, actions and individual components come together as parts of a cohesive whole, your response to the game as a player is similar to that of the characters you are playing as. Theming is hard to attain and Read more...

Room

Posted 3:03pm Sunday 13th March 2016 by Lisa Blakie

Rating: A- Adapted from the novel written by Emma Donoghue, Room was in the running for four Oscar categories this year. Brie Larson gives an incredible performance as Joy, a young woman who is kidnapped when she is 17 years old, and taken prisoner by a disturbed predator only known to the Read more...

Happy Gilmore


Posted 3:06pm Sunday 13th March 2016 by Jessica Thompson

Rating: C After reviewing a fantastic film last week, my standards had been set fairly high. So when my boyfriend told me with glee this movie was “crack up” I nestled down with an early Easter egg and considered this “sports comedy” as I consider French snails, cave Read more...

Brooklyn

Posted 3:10pm Sunday 13th March 2016 by John Crowley

Rating: B+ Walking into this particular cinema screening, I carried with me a genuine lack of preconceptions and expectations around Brooklyn, a period drama centred around the experiences of a twenty-something Irish girl Eilis Lacey. And while the movie was largely enjoyable and engaging Read more...

Spotlight

Posted 3:15pm Sunday 13th March 2016 by Critic

Rating: A When reviewing a film with an Academy Award nomination for Best Picture there is a certain level of pressure to give it a positive review. After all, you can’t really give an Oscar winning filming a bad review, right? And yet the highest praise that can be given to the Read more...

Hunger Makes Me A Modern Girl

Posted 2:41pm Sunday 13th March 2016 by Lucy Hunter

I only wanted one thing on tour: to slam my hand in a door and break my fingers. Then I would go home.” The opening line of Sleater-Kinney guitarist and singer Carrie Brownstein’s autobiography smashes you into the tedium and discomfort involved in touring in a cramped car with a band, Read more...

Sleater-Kinney: Live At The Powerstation

Posted 2:43pm Sunday 13th March 2016 by Millicent Lovelock

When Sleater-Kinney made their way onto the stage and launched into the opening riff of “Price Tag” (the opening track off the 2015 album No Cities to Love) my breath was caught, part way between a scream and a strangled sob. I found myself crumpling, my bottom lip trembling and my face Read more...

Deadpool

Posted 1:54pm Sunday 6th March 2016 by Lisa Blakie

Rating: A- Wade Wilson (aka Deadpool), is the newest addition to the slew of superheroes in the Marvel cinematic universe. Played exceptionally well by Ryan Reynolds, Deadpool is all about sex, hefty violence, and Wham!  This is not a Disney Marvel film (Avengers, Iron Man, Thor etc), it is Read more...

Steve Jobs

Posted 1:59pm Sunday 6th March 2016 by Lucy Hunter

Rating: C+ We didn’t need another film about Steve Jobs. This latest work shows us behind the scenes of the digital revolution, where we see the man at its epicentre, the late Steve Jobs, portrayed by Michael Fassbender. The film’s plot unfolds backstage at three iconic product Read more...

Concussion

Posted 2:03pm Sunday 6th March 2016 by Alex Campbell-Hunt

Rating: B This movie seemed very promising. Just like its contemporary Spotlight, it tells an important, recent true story about a powerful organization covering up wrongdoings, following the individuals who attempt to expose the truth. Concussion isn’t a catastrophic failure, but somehow Read more...