Joe Jones

British director James Watkins ventures into the action genre with Bastille Day, his previous successes being Eden Lake and The Woman in Black which are both rooted in the horror genre. Bastille Day is set in Paris and follows a troubled but loveable pickpocket, Michael Mason (Game of Thrones’ Richard...

Probably spoilers ahead. Obviously. After over a year of hyperbolic promotion, a decade since the last one and 32 years since ‘the last good one’, Star Wars: The Force Awakens was released two weeks ago. The product of an industry titan acquiring a cultural juggernaut, and made by hundreds...

Since winning some of the top prizes at the Sundance Film Festival back in January, The Birth of a Nation has already been generating Oscar buzz – considering Nate Parker (who directs, produces, writes and stars) has been working on this film for seven years now, that must be...

The 1988 Winter Olympics will forever remain etched in history as perhaps the most memorable Olympics ever, thanks to the incredible feats of two first-timers. The first of these was made into the charming Cool Runnings, charting the daring debut of the Jamaican bobsled team. The second has only...

When I buy a ticket to watch a Disney film, I don’t expect it to be philosophically or politically charged. As my friend and I walked in to the cinema room, having just been handed sheets to colour in, I thought to myself, “We’re probably the only adults who...

Top Gear is back! Except it’s not actually the Top Gear we all love, because Jeremy Clarkson is nowhere in sight (too busy wizzing around on that scooter obviously), there’s no May and definitively no Hammond. As an ardent lover of the ‘old’ Top Gear, and a staunch cynic,...

It’s great to see the Lego team ‘Robin’ some of the Batman attention away from Batman V Superman this week – with a trailer I can hardly ‘Penguin’ to describe. But will Lego Batman: The Movie live up to its predecessor, or is it destined to be the ‘Bane’ of our...