• Trailer Watch – Joy

    In recent years, it seems as though awards season isn’t truly here until David O. Russell releases a film. And his most recent offering, Joy, might just be his best. The trailer introduces us to the titular character, as played by Jennifer Lawrence, a single mother struggling to find...
  • Film Review – Crimson Peak

    Guillermo Del Toro’s latest film, Crimson Peak, starring Mia Wasikowska, Jessica Chastain and Tom Hiddleston, is a masterful Gothic romance that displays all the classic staples of the genre, and, as expected with a Del Toro film, features dazzling visuals. Del Toro tends to balance his art-house Spanish films...
  • 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...
  • Troubled love: Interview with the Poldark Creators

    On March 8th, 2015, Mammoth Productions and the BBC premiered a renewed adaptation of Winston Graham’s epic Cornish saga, Poldark, though, little expected the massive response that arrived almost overnight, as Aidan Turner – known as that Irish vampire we all knew and loved from BBC Three’s cult hit...
  • Film Review – Macbeth

    Many film and TV adaptations of ‘Macbeth’ have disappointed me to the point where I have almost sworn to never watch it again. However, the 2015 Macbeth, directed by Justin Kurzel, is a beautifully crafted 113 minute artistic masterpiece, which at moments had me literally basking in awe. Starring...
  • Trailer Watch – Star Wars: The Force Awakens

    Here it is: the trailer which made more people watch American Football than any other. This new trailer for the cinematic event of 2015 doesn’t feature too many new plot ideas, instead focusing on characterisation, a nice change from the usual spoon-feeding of the plot seen in most trailers...
  • 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....