Film

About 20 minutes into the 125-minute run time, Anastasia asks ‘What am I doing here?’ This question was on my mind for nearly the entire duration of the film. With a large portion of the film resembling a soft core porno, it is nearly impossible to see where Fifty Shades...

2015 seems to be a return for the spy genre. With Kingsman: The Secret Service already proving to be a fun time and the latest bond film Spectre coming out in November, the first look at The Man from U.N.C.L.E. seems so packed full of style, charm, and excitement, that it’s a promising...

We’re introducing a new feature ‘Around the World in 80 Films’, where our writers will be reviewing films from around the globe. They’ll be giving us their take on films from a variety of different genres, and reviewing either recent releases or classics that they think you should definitely...

These past few months have seen the resurgence of the biopic; from Imitation Game to Mr. Turner, from American Sniper to Foxcatcher – but Selma stands out as the best of a solid bunch. This is the long awaited Martin Luther King movie, but it’s not all about him....

The trailer for Magic Mike XXL is exactly what one would expect from a film that centres around the world of male stripping: shirtless men frolicking around, a bit of grinding here and there and a horde of screaming women lapping it all up, stacks of dollar bills at...

What better way to make a debut as a feature film director and scriptwriter than to make a dark magic realist thriller? If anyone can be awarded the liberty to experiment with such a niche genre on their first attempt, it’s Ryan Gosling. Lost River is about a single mother,...

As the famous idiom goes, “one man’s trash is another man’s treasure”, and nowhere is this phrase is more visible than in the landfill sites on the outskirts of megacities in developing countries. Here, the dump is a hive of activity and home to thousands who working through the mountains...