Film Review

There has been a substantial amount of hype across the hemispheres over The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1, and the film does not disappoint. With exquisite actors and a darker storyline, this third cinematic instalment in the franchise sees its protagonist mature quite fiercely along with this once innocent series of films. Mockingjay is author Suzanne...

You pay for something with card, your location can be found. You send a text, it can be read by a third party. You have a phone plugged in to a land line, it can be used to listen in on your conversations. All these ideas are explored to...

Ouija is Hasbro’s first outing into the horror genre, and sadly, it shows. From a predictable plot, one-dimensional characters and an atrocious ending that seems to beg for a sequel, there is nothing new that the film offers. In fact, if it wasn’t for the constant jump scares, most...

Nightcrawler tells the tale of an overly driven man who stumbles upon the underground world of freelance crime journalism in Los Angeles. It is called such because this underground world is nocturnal, and these cameramen latch upon the police’s radio frequency in order to get to the reported crime first...

There are few directors in the world given complete freedom to create any project desired and Christopher Nolan is one of them. His projects have grown from Memento and The Prestige to the Batman trilogy and Inception, and Interstellar takes his work to another dimension… literally. Films with the...

The Fisher King is mad. It renders you baffled, stifled, and in love with its unravelling story. You appreciate the ingenuity imbued into this film once you try to comprehend it: to understand the method in the madness. Warning: Spoilers follow! Directed by Terry Gilliam, who often draws on...

Mike Leigh’s biopic of artist J. M. W. Turner (here played by Timothy Spall) covers the latter part of Turner’s life, by which time he had already established himself as an artist and unorthodox character. The film charts the painter’s slow decline in health and popularity, as well as...