Film Review: Knives Out (2019)
byMany of us might use the holidays to hide away in the embrace of a decent murder. It seems Rian Johnson, escaping from Star…
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Film Review: The Shape of Water (2017)
byThere’s been much anticipation for Guillermo del Toro’s latest feature. With a highly successful festival run (taking home best director and score at the…
Film Review: Loving (2016)
byFor such a poignant topic, it seems cheap to employ a pun to describe a film called Loving, yet that is the word that first…
Review: Royal Shakespeare Company: King Lear (2016)
byKing Lear, surely one of the most challenging roles that the Bard ever wrote, is not a role lightly undertaken. Playing any of Shakespeare’s…
Film Review: Nocturnal Animals (2016)
byNocturnal Animals opens with a jarring and disorienting sequence, one which is likely to fascinate and perturb viewers in equal measures. Middle aged and…
Film Review: Midnight Special (2016)
byThough some may be familiar with the song ‘Midnight Special’ which references a train which shines its light through prison windows, for others it…
Film Review: The Night Before (2015)
byThe latest effort from what might be termed the ‘Frat Pack’ sits in a slot that many of Hollywood’s recent attempts at comedy fall…
Film Review: 99 Homes (2014)
by“When you work for me, you’re mine”. A searing critique on American capitalism framed around the financial crisis, 99 Homes establishes its intensity from…
Film Review: Freeheld (2015)
byIt’s easy to criticise the US what with its ridiculous gun laws, extreme conservatives, and woeful healthcare system, but Freeheld reminds us of something that…
Film Review: Mud (2012)
byNeckbone (Jacob Lofland) and Ellis (Tye Sheridan) are best mates living on the banks of the Mississippi River, fishing, adventuring and getting up to…