Film

Film Review: Sleepwalk With Me (2012)

Film Review: Sleepwalk With Me (2012)

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Based on his one-man show of the same name and winner ‘Best of NEXT audience Award’ at last year’s Sundance Film Festival, Sleepwalk with Me is a stylised account of director Mike Birbiglia’s early days as a would-be stand-up comedian.

Film Review: The Croods (2013)

Film Review: The Croods (2013)

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In all seriousness, what really elevates this movie is the attention to detail and visual splendour we have come to expect from big budget animation. Every hair, eye-twitch, leaf and breeze has been accounted for in this spectacular 98-minute action reel/nature documentary.

Film Review: Hyde Park on Hudson (2012)

Film Review: Hyde Park on Hudson (2012)

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Bill Murray is an absolute God of the film world, a Mecca of Cool, the King of Kings, and he’s developed into quite the actor in his old age. In Hyde Park on Hudson Mr Murray tackles FDR in an interesting time in his life, a week in 1939 when the King and Queen of England (Elizabeth and Bertie) make the first trip to America of any royal, to ask for support in the looming war.

Film Review: Mama (2013)

Film Review: Mama (2013)

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Mama is a film ripe with horror clichés, some of the setups seem oddly familiar and there are scenes that leave you scratching your head with a feeling of déjà vu, swearing you’d seen what just happened in Japanese horrors The Ring or The Grudge.