• 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...
  • Film Review – Horrible Bosses 2

    Jason Bateman, Charlie Day and Jason Sudeikis return as the world’s unlikeliest criminals in Horrible Bosses 2. After taking care of their own bosses in the first movie our protagonists have now decide to become their own bosses – thus we have the premise for our movie. Now this...
  • Film Review – The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies

    The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies is the epic conclusion to Peter Jackson’s Hobbit trilogy. What is said to be the conclusion of Jackson’s Middle-earth adventure, and possibly the final live action depiction of J. R. R. Tolkien’s world for some time, this finale leaves the series...
  • Rewind Review – Metropolis

    Dismissed on its release in 1927 by H. G. Wells as ‘quite the silliest film’, Fritz Lang’s Metropolis is now considered one of the pinnacles of the silent film era. It borrows from Shelley’s Frankenstein, inspired an anime remake in 2001 and feeds directly into the Star Wars franchise...
  • Film Review – Black Sea

    Much like the submarine that takes Captain Robinson to the depths of the ocean, Black Sea takes an interesting set-up and plummets with our expectations. The tense premise brings together a wonderful host of scum and villainy, manning a submarine to recover $40 million worth of sunken gold from...
  • Rewind Review – The Tourist

    With nothing else to do on a 2010 December’s day, one couldn’t be criticised if they popped into the cinema and decided on a film that had some eye-candy in, The Tourist. However, such a decision would be regrettable due to what is an excruciatingly abysmal film. The only way to describe The...
  • Rewind Review – Gladiator

    “My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius, commander of the Armies of the North, General of the Felix Legions, loyal servant to the true emperor, Marcus Aurelius. Father to a murdered son, husband to a murdered wife. And I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next.” Gladiator...