• Beauty and the Beast: Is it worth all the hype?

    After many months of hype-building teaser clips and social media posts, Disney have finally released the latest instalment in their mission to re-make all their best-loved animations in the form of live action pictures: Beauty and the Beast. The original 1991 motion picture was the first animated film to...
  • Look Out For…March

    While many are aware of the Gregorian calendar, there is another one that runs parallel to it: the film calendar. Such a schedule means that months like March and September are “in-betweeners”. They don’t quite belong to the artsy-fartsy films of awards season, nor with the somewhat hum drum...
  • Trailer Watch – Beauty and the Beast

    It’s finally here; the long-anticipated addition to the new set of accumulating Disney live action remakes, which includes the hugely popular Maleficent (2014) and Cinderella (2015). The official trailer for the magical Beauty and the Beast (2017) does not disappoint. From the outset of the trailer, where the soft...
  • TV Review – Downton Abbey Series 6, The Final Goodbye

    After six series, numerous Christmas specials and five years, on Christmas Day it was finally time to wave goodbye to ITV’s smash hit period drama Downton Abbey. Following a series full of twists and turns, viewers were left on tenterhooks, with everything to be resolved in this final feature-length...
  • Trailer Watch – Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb

    In the third instalment of Night at the Museum, we will see Ben Stiller with our favourite historical figures and artefacts come alive, but this time, in London. This latest trailer gives the lovers of the previous two films another reason to watch the madness of history unfold once again....
  • 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...