• Trailer Watch – Captain America: Civil War

    Phase 3 is about to commence for the Marvel Cinematic Universe and as we see more and more characters being introduced and developed, it looked inevitable for a divide to eventually form in the team.The initial problem with the trailer was the amount of different cast members/superheroes present, whether...
  • The Future of Cinema: Franchises – The Original Screenplay or the Empty Seat?

    This autumn saw one of cinema’s biggest box office flops in the form of the Peter Pan remake: Pan. Despite a production budget of $150,000,000 and stars such as Cara Delevigne and Hugh Jackman – cinema goers didn’t bite the bait making it the 8th largest box office fail of all...
  • Film Review – Brooklyn

      Today, more so than ever, immigration is a hot topic and is affecting the lives of so many people, similar to when Irish and Italian people migrated to the USA, exactly what the 2015 release of Brooklyn charts. How fitting it has come at exactly the right time....
  • Film Review – National Theatre Live: Hamlet

    “Alas, poor Yorick”.  “Brevity is the soul of wit.”  “To be or not to be”. Some of the most well known lines in English and theatrical history and all from the same play.  Shakespeare’s Hamlet may be over 400 years old, but it certainly has not lost it’s spark...
  • Trailer Watch – Finding Dory

    After 12 years of waiting for a sequel for one of Pixar’s most beloved films, we finally have a teaser trailer for Finding Dory. However, despite the wait, it seems as though nothing has changed story-wise and we continue right where we left off. The animation looks very similar...
  • Film Review – Suffragette

    ‘I’d rather be a rebel than a slave’; This historical quotation proved controversial; yet no words ring truer for Sarah Gavron’s Suffragette. Set in 1912, the film follows the fictional, working-class woman Maud Watts (Carey Mulligan), we see her evolve from meek, vulnerable laundry lackey to a dedicated and...
  • Film Review – He Never Died (Mayhem 2015)

    How can it be so funny? Many films market themselves as ‘horror-comedy’, but the latter is usually a side-offering, not the main event. This is not the case with He Never Died. Writer-director Jason Krawczyk has crafted a careful balance of laughs and screams, enough to rival genre classics....