Film Review: Mountain Cry (2015)
bySet deep within an isolated Chinese mountain village 1984 is Mountain Cry by Larry Yang. A humanistic drama with elements of both comedy and…
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Film Review: The Secret Life of Pets (2016)
byStepping away from the amusing but not exactly articulate Minions, Illumination Entertainment is back with some quality animation in The Secret Life of Pets….
Film Review: Louis Theroux: My Scientology Movie (2015)
byIt’s not so much a fault on the documentary’s behalf, but I still can’t tell you what Scientology is about. All I know is…
Film Review: Captain Fantastic (2016)
byForaging and surrounding itself in the forest of the Pacific North West, and with what feels like some notes on River Phoenix’s home-schooled upbringing…
Film Review: Girl Asleep (2015)
byHere’s one for you: what happens when you mix Wes Anderson, 1970s Australia, Napoleon Dynamite, coming-of-age drama and the Mighty Boosh? It’s impossible to…
Film Review: Nerve (2016)
by“Most things aren’t black and white. The internet is neither good nor bad; it just depends on how you use it” say Ariel Schulman…
Film Review: Don’t Breathe (2016)
byAmidst a strong year for horror flicks Don’t Breathe emerges as a front runner for perhaps the best of the lot. With a relatively untested…
Film Review: Blood Father (2016)
byMost of what runs through the veins of the Mel Gibson-starring Blood Father seems like another ‘Old White Guy’s Still Got It’ kind of…
Film Review: Free State of Jones (2016)
byOctober 1862. The second year of the bloodiest conflict in US history tears apart the fabric of the country as it feeds steadily more…
Film Review: Ben-Hur (2016)
byBen-Hur 2016: Or how I learnt to love Hollywood and stop inevitable comparisons. The first thing that’s going to be said about this film…