• Trailer Watch – Mockingjay Part 2

    Since its humble emergence on cinema screens in 2012, The Hunger Games franchise has grown into one of the largest blockbusters in cinema. With the final instalment close to release, this final trailer shows the franchise is ready to go out with a bang. The very first lines spoken...
  • Trailer Watch – Deadpool

    Leaked during Comic Con a few weeks ago, the full Deadpool trailer has finally arrived in all its F-bomb dropping glory. Wade Wilson (Ryan Reynolds) is dying from cancer. To prevent his death, he must become something new, something very new: Deadpool – ‘the merc with a mouth’. If...
  • Short Focus – Pixar’s Lava

    It’s a well-known fact that if it doesn’t have a Pixar short at the start, it’s not a proper Pixar film. Inside Out is no different, accompanied by its own short entitled Lava. Lava is the story of two volcanoes that know each other are nearby but sadly cannot see one another....
  • Film Review – Inside Out

    Pixar, for a long time, has invested in the theme of emotions. ‘What if toys had emotions?’ (Toy Story), ‘What if robots had emotions?’ (WALL·E) etc. But Pixar’s latest release, Inside Out goes one step further, asking ‘What if emotions had emotions?’ But did it succeed in its latest...
  • Film Review – The Gallows

    The ‘found footage’ trope for horror films is rapidly becoming the norm, robbing the genre of much, if not all, its originality. The Gallows tries to do something new with format, but the small change of using not one, but two cameras, has a disappointingly minor effect. Instead, it...
  • Trailer Watch – Spectre

    Bond is back in the 24th instalment of the franchise and this time he goes rogue as he comes face to face with an organization classic fans will know well. The trailer suggests a celebration of all things Bond as it contains plenty of references to the previous of films....
  • Film Review – Eden

    Depicting the history of the ‘French Touch’, a child of House music from the early 90s, through the perspective of one eyewitness/contributor, Eden ostensibly packs a trump card. Director Mia Hansen-Løve’s brother Sven is essentially the main character, for he experienced that fleeting success while friends and colleagues (most...