• 2016: Hot or Not – Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

    Lets wave goodbye to 2015! Good times, bad times we’ve had them all – but you know what they say, as one door closes, another one opens. Over the coming month we’ll be bringing you a snapshot of everything 2016 has to offer – the good, the bad and...
  • Trailer Watch – Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them

    ‘Never tickle a sleeping dragon’. Or let one loose in New York. Good advice really, and one that Eddie Redmayne’s clearly loveable Newt Scamander should follow. But if the teaser for Fantastic Beasts is indicative of its plot, that is precisely where things go wrong. As far as announcement...
  • Film Review – Victor Frankenstein

    “You know how it begins…” – Yes, we do, so please show us something new Victor Frankenstein. By the look of the title, any expectations you had for a vivid reimagining have just been shattered. Mary Shelley’s enlightening creation seems to have been reused in a way that reaffirms...
  • Let’s Art-iculate #4: Has Harry Potter Gone Too Far?

    Seven actual books, three spin-off books, seven audio-books, eight films, six dedicated and money-spinning Harry Potter attractions worldwide, seven theme park rides, eleven video games, a trilogy of prequel films set to be released from 2016, and now the announcement of two sequel plays opening in London next year....
  • Trailer Watch – Paddington

    Based on the beloved book series by Michael Bond, and from the producers of Harry Potter, there are high expectations for the newest adaptation of Bond’s books, Paddington. From the trailer it definitely seems to be meeting these expectations, capturing the charm of this bear from deepest, darkest Peru. The...
  • Scrapbook – Top 5 Recent Book-to-Film Adaptations

    Adapting a novel into a quality, well-structured, faithful film can be a difficult task, and one which directors often fail to execute, but when they do, we are left with artistic legacies of multimodal magnificence. With David Fincher’s latest success in bringing Gone Girl to the screen from Gillian...