• Film Review – Horrible Bosses 2

    Jason Bateman, Charlie Day and Jason Sudeikis return as the world’s unlikeliest criminals in Horrible Bosses 2. After taking care of their own bosses in the first movie our protagonists have now decide to become their own bosses – thus we have the premise for our movie. Now this...
  • Anti-Advent Calendar #14

    Christmas. It’s become an addiction of indulgence, one made acceptable because not only do masses of people take the hit, but they’re comfortable talking about it too. So long as they continue, we’ll be in tow supplying goods of our own grade, as we resume our Anti-Advent Calendar… Before achieving widespread recognition...
  • Film Review – The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies

    The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies is the epic conclusion to Peter Jackson’s Hobbit trilogy. What is said to be the conclusion of Jackson’s Middle-earth adventure, and possibly the final live action depiction of J. R. R. Tolkien’s world for some time, this finale leaves the series...
  • Anti-Advent Calendar #13

    Christmas. The time to be surrounded by others, especially the eager and effervescent youth. Well, unless it turns out like day thirteen on our Anti-Advent Calendar… Want to be disturbed and further frightened by any form of contact with the youth of today? If so, Eden Lake is the film for...
  • Anti-Advent Calendar #12

    Christmas. If it’s destined to continue its countdown, so are we destined to continue ours. Here’s day twelve of our Anti-Advent Calendar… The Woodsman, directed by Nicole Kassell, tells the story of a convicted paedophile being released from prison after serving his sentence and trying to find his place back...
  • Rewind Review – Metropolis

    Dismissed on its release in 1927 by H. G. Wells as ‘quite the silliest film’, Fritz Lang’s Metropolis is now considered one of the pinnacles of the silent film era. It borrows from Shelley’s Frankenstein, inspired an anime remake in 2001 and feeds directly into the Star Wars franchise...
  • Film Review – Black Sea

    Much like the submarine that takes Captain Robinson to the depths of the ocean, Black Sea takes an interesting set-up and plummets with our expectations. The tense premise brings together a wonderful host of scum and villainy, manning a submarine to recover $40 million worth of sunken gold from...