• Review – Magic In The Moonlight

    SPOILER WARNING: Main Plot Points Revealed. Wei Ling Soo is a world-famous magician and master illusionist, with every trick in the book at his disposal. Out of costume he is the arrogant, self-important and petulant Stanley Crawford (Colin Firth), an inherent pessimist whose treatment of and attitude towards his...
  • Trailer Watch – Tak3n

    Bryan Mills is back, along with his ‘particular set of skills’, for one last time as the Taken franchise comes to a close. Framed for the murder of his wife, the trailer shows Mills (Liam Neeson) on the run from the police whilst hunting for his wife’s killers and...
  • Review – Wish I Was Here

    Life is an occasion. Rise to it. After a decade long hiatus following the sleeper success of his directorial debut Garden State (2004) Zach Braff finally returns, with a drama/comedy about a dysfunctional family coming together in the face of terminal cancer. Certainly this is well-trodden ground cinematically, and...
  • Review – The Riot Club

    The Nottingham student experience is pretty amazing. However, The Riot Club takes the typical student experience to a whole new level. Focusing on ten of Oxford’s brightest, the titular club prides itself in debauchery of the highest order, which makes for entertaining viewing, until it’s taken too far and...
  • Review – The Equalizer

    A seemingly mild-mannered store worker (Denzel Washington) becomes involved in a deadly showdown with Russian sex traffickers after trying to rescue a young prostitute (Chloe Grace Moretz) from her current life. As the situation escalates one gets a better glimpse of the lead’s mysterious past and perhaps a reason...
  • Review – A Walk Among The Tombstones

    Ex-alcoholic Matt Scudder (Liam Neeson) is a private detective hired by drug dealer Kenny Kristo (Dan Stevens) to track down his wife’s killers. Along the way, Scudder befriends homeless teenager TJ (Brian ‘Astro’ Bradley) and uncovers a much darker tale of serial-killing sadomasochists, underground adult movies, and the Twelve...
  • Review – In Order Of Disappearance (Kraftidioten)

    The brilliant Stellan Skarsgård stars as a snow plough driver-cum-vigilante who gets more than he bargained for in this pitch-black Norwegian comedy from writer-director Hans Petter Moland. After winning citizen of the year, Nils Dickman (Skarsgård) discovers that his son has been killed by local drug dealers in a...