• Trailer Watch – Knight of Cups

    In what is sure to be another cinematic masterpiece, writer/director Terrence Malick returns with Knight of Cups, led by an all star cast as seen in this first look trailer. Within the industry, Malick is notoriously known for taking long breaks from filmmaking (he took a twenty-year break after his...
  • Anti-Advent Calendar #18

    Christmas. A time for setting aside differences and bonding. Sometimes just to enjoy a meal, sometimes to battle a centuries-old demonic entity. Day 18… With one of the most hell-for-leather insane concepts in recent memory, if not in all of cinematic history, 2002’s Bubba Ho-Tep showed there was more...
  • Anti-Advent Calendar #17

    Christmas. Anti-Advent Calendar. Here’s day seventeen… Adapted from Anthony Burgess’ wicked 1962 novel, A Clockwork Orange was almost seamlessly exposed onto screen by Stanley Kubrick in 1971. Vocalising the malenky bit of Nadsat genius from Burgess’ gripping work, as well as visualising the disorderly sets and violence, this controversial...
  • Trailer Watch – The Loft

    Loft: a room or space directly under the roof of a house or other building, used for accommodation or storage. The first trailer for director Eric Van Looy’s incorrectly titled murder mystery The Loft has just arrived, and has some things to be excited for. The director has added...
  • Anti-Advent Calendar #16

    Christmas. Our irreverence goes on with day sixteen of our Anti-Advent Calendar… Given a sacred mission following a ‘fingering’ from God, the 2010 comedy-drama Super takes its viewers and its hero, if he can be classed as such a thing, on a surreal journey of ultra-violent vigilantism, pitch-black humour and possibly the worst...
  • Film Review – Set Fire to the Stars

    New York poet and Literature and Creative Writing professor, John Brinnin (Elijah Wood), thrusts himself over his head when he proposes to guide Welsh poet, Dylan Thomas (Celyn Jones), on his first American poetry tour in 1950. Brinnin soon discovers that Thomas is a wild card, possessed by pandemonium...
  • Anti-Advent Calendar #15

    Christmas. Forget the daily foraging for tasteless chocolates wrapped in plastic, and instead enjoy another jolly suggestion in our Anti-Advent Calendar. On to day fifteen… Before the majestic one-two combination of The King’s Speech and Les Misérables, director Tom Hooper made a taut drama based on the life of legendary...