Film Review

‘I am the one who knocks’. Even if you’ve never heard of Walter White, chances are you know his catchphrase. My first encounter occurred during year one of University. Whilst looking for posters to fill my empty room, I came across a certain goateed bald-man, accompanied by a specific quote…. At this...

Spy is a superb comedy that ticks all the right boxes. It is self-aware, memorable, and is packed full of brilliantly hilarious characters with even funnier lines of dialogue. A desk-bound CIA analyst goes undercover to infiltrate the world of a deadly arms dealer and prevent a global disaster....

Two by Two (also known as Ooops! Noah is Gone…) is billed as the story of two families of animals on Noah’s Ark. The main characters aren’t animals which exist or have ever existed, and the design of these ‘Nestarians’ is so bizarre and neon that i can only assume that...

What separates humanity from animals? Can we even lay claim to such a distinction? These issues, and more, are discussed in Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy’s The Tribe. With a narrative both slow-burning and bleak, it’s not for the faint-hearted, but persevere, and the payoff is extraordinary. Towards the end, every moment carries...

Big Game is director Jalmari Helander’s second foray into feature-length film and I was as lost watching it as I can imagine he was trying to put together such an abomination. Big Game is a coming-of-age story in which a boy is required to hunt down an animal whilst...

“This is a story about the future and the future can be scary”. As opening lines of films go, this one really works to set up the movie well. Not much had previously been revealed about Tomorrowland during production, nor in the trailer, only that it was about a new world and achieving...

Let’s be honest, Kristen Stewart had a rough time after Twilight. In its wake, she’s been haunted by memes of her ‘one-expression’ acting-style, not to mention association with melodramatic ‘teen-cinema’. But all that could be about to change. Following her turns in Camp X-Ray and Still Alice, Clouds of Sils Maria is a thought-provoking psychological...