• Around the World in 80 Films #5

    As a second year undergraduate studying Law with French, my Erasmus year is fast approaching, and what better way to get a flavour of what to expect than by giving the 2002 César award-winning film, L’auberge espagnole, a watch? I can safely say that if my year abroad is...
  • Trailer Watch – Avengers: Age of Ultron, Trailer #3

    Marvel unleashed the epic final trailer for the eagerly awaited Avengers: Age of Ultron. Similar to the teaser, it begins with another menacing monologue from Ultron (James Spader), who threatens to rip the titular team asunder. The cinematography looks thoroughly impressive and several scenes look like a comic book...
  • Watch This If…You’re Feeling Old

    There appears to be a fascination with looking back at nostalgic 90’s and 00’s memorabilia and references ranging from Gameboys to Arthur on CBBC. Even as youthful university students we often reminisce about our childhood and early teenage years when we would go and play in the park, woods...
  • Film Review – The Duke Of Burgundy

    Mild Spoilers It’s 43 years since Brando and Schneider taught the world a new use for butter and in that time as cinemagoers we haven’t advanced much. Either the audience I just happened to witness Fifty Shades of Grey with is the most repressed in history or that cluster of titterers...
  • Around the World in 80 Films #4

    is based on a contagion outbreak in a tower block in the middle of a busy Spanish city centre. Although this was my first foreign film and the subtitles were slightly displeasing, I found this film to be a perfect depiction of how found footage horror films could...
  • Trailer Watch – Community, Season 6

    Yahoo! saved Community and are bringing it into a new ‘dean-mension’. Community’s life appeared to be over after the last season when NBC cancelled the series, but Yahoo! Screen has picked it up and is ready to bring the chaos of Greendale back around for another thirteen episodes. Some things...
  • Film Review – Focus

    In 2006, the BBC broadcasted a television series called Hustle that ran for 8 seasons and followed a group of elite con-artists pulling off scams, and it was incredibly entertaining. Every single one of the 48 episodes involved a clever, solitary twist at the end of each 60 minute chapter....