• Film Review – Into the Woods

    Into the Woods is a Disney adaptation of a Broadway musical where several familiar fairy tale storylines all converge within the magical space of The Woods. The central character to all the arcs is Meryl Streep as The Witch, and an actor of Streep’s calibre is needed to carry off...
  • Trailer Watch – Better Call Saul

    Who you gonna call? Um, someone called James Miguel apparently? After months of speculation, mysterious teasers and one cryptically worded country western song here, finally, we have our first proper look at AMC’s prequel spin-off to Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul. As expected, Better Call Saul looks set to be,...
  • Trailer Watch – The Voices

    The first trailer for dark comedy The Voices has just been released on the web, and it’s a little crazy. If a talking cat, dog and disembodied head weren’t wacky enough, then the fact that Ryan Reynolds might actually be in a good film is surely entering into the realm of insanity. Reynolds is one...
  • “How Have You Never Seen…Reservoir Dogs?”

    “Like a virgin, touched for the very first time”. Reservoir Dogs was the explosive debut I was expecting from Quentin Tarantino. After all, this is the man who’s shown us unparalleled levels of gore and destruction in recent hits Inglourious Basterds and Django Unchained. Madonna’s tender love song is a million...
  • Film Review – Predestination

    A man walks into a bar and makes a bet with the bartender that his story is more remarkable than any the tender has heard. After the relaying of his painful – and definitely remarkable – tale is complete the bartender (Ethan Hawke) gives the man (Sarah Snook) the...
  • Trailer Watch – Ant-Man

    With everyone’s favourite Marvel characters kicking off the summer in Age of Ultron, the second Marvel movie of 2015 will introduce us to a whole new cast of characters. Despite a rocky production, it’s finally time to meet Marvel’s smallest hero: Ant-Man. Hank Pym (Michael Douglas) has created a...
  • Film Review – Birdman

    Birdman is a film like no other. It’s the type of experience that will have you leaving the cinema dissecting and discussing what it was about, and wondering how such a technical feat was achieved. It’s a triumph that everyone, from the sublime ensemble cast to the miracle-working cinematographer Emmanuel...