Film Review: The Children Act (2017)
byIan McEwan’s penchant for fine storytelling is on display once more in The Children Act. Based on his novel of the same name, McEwan…
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Review: National Theatre Live: Angels in America (2017)
by“In this world, there is a kind of painful progress. Longing for what we’ve left behind, and dreaming ahead.” – Harper Pitt, Angels in…
Film Review: Beauty and the Beast (2017)
byIt’s finally here. The live Disney musical we’ve all been waiting for. Twenty-six years after the animated original (one of the few animated films…
Film Review: Bridget Jones’s Baby (2016)
byIt’s been 12 years since Bridget Jones (Renée Zellweger) graced the big screen, and quite a bit has changed. Bridget returns in Bridget Jones’s…
Film Review: Burnt (2015)
byBradley Cooper + food. Who could ask for anything more? While our television screens remain saturated with cooking competitions, cinema is slowly getting in…
Film Review: A Walk In The Woods (2015)
byGiven how much the film and literary worlds love mingling with one another, it’s no surprise that filmmakers have taken a liking towards biographical…
Film Review: Men, Women & Children (2014)
byYou are reading this on the internet, probably with another tab opened on social media. There’s also probably a phone in your pocket, which…
Film Review: Saving Mr Banks (2013)
byWhen we watch a film, we often lose focus on the complexities and persuasion that it took behind the scenes to get a film even into production. As is the case with the production of Mary Poppins in the early 1960s when Walt Disney finally lured Poppins author P.L. Travers to Hollywood.
Film Review: Beautiful Creatures (2012)
byIf you’re a fan of teenage fiction, especially the supernatural kind, you’ll anticipate the plot as you go along. Intense adolescent love, implied sex scenes that are powerful enough to quite literally start fires, long gazes with no words spoken, not to mention a bottomless bag-full of tricks, spells and special effects, Richard La Gravenese’s adaptation has it all.
Film Review: Men In Black III (2012)
byThe first Men In Black film was a fun, comic book style adventure that successfully combined the odd couple pairing of the ultra-serious Tommy…