Film Review: The Neon Demon (2016)
byNicolas Winding Refn’s The Neon Demon will be a dividing film like his previous feature, Only God Forgives. Right down the middle, these films…
Current Theatrical Releases
Film Review: Inferno (2016)
byTo steal a quote from Ben “Yatzee” Croshaw – Dante’s Inferno is history’s first recorded work of self-insert fan fiction. Born 750 years ago,…
Film Review: Where Am I Going? (2016)
byKnowing how loathe most people are to celebrate stereotypes of their own nationalities, I’m hesitant to vouch for how much truth is contained in…
Film Review: Francofonia (2015)
byIn the historical community there’s a joke that all of Russian history can be summed up in five words: ‘But then it got worse’….
Film Review: Zero Days (2016)
by‘War. War never changes’ comes the saying that begins every instalment of the Fallout games. It’s a strange state of affairs that the most…
Film Review: Julieta (2016)
byThe opening image of Julieta is a vast sea of red. A deep, breathing, powerful wall – it represents an opening curtain, a beating…
Film Review: The Girl on the Train (2016)
byReleased in 2015, Paula Hawkins‘ The Girl on the Train is the fastest selling adult novel in history. This is no doubt due to it…
Review: National Theatre Live: The Deep Blue Sea (2016)
byIn post-WWII London, Hester Collyer (Helen McCrory) is the wife of a barrister-turned-high court judge. But she wouldn’t say as much. She couldn’t say…
Film Review: Under the Shadow (2016)
byThe Iran-Iraq war started in September of 1980 and lasted eight years. An estimated one million people died in a war which saw Saddam…
Film Review: Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children (2016)
byYoung Adult fiction has been mined ruthlessly by Hollywood with varying levels of success. For every Harry Potter, there’s a Percy Jackson. Some are…