• Trailer Watch – Avengers: Age of Ultron

    Finally, the Avengers: Age of Ultron trailer has been released, and this time humanity is under threat from the titular supervillainous antagonist, Tony Stark’s invention gone horribly wrong, who dreams of seeing “everyone screaming for mercy”. Marvel fans have been waiting a long time for the Avengers: Age of...
  • Review – Fury

    Exactly what it says on the tin; Fury delivers an honest but ugly snapshot of hostile Germany in 1945, as seen through the misfortunes of an American tank crew. David Ayer’s two hours and fifteen minute war film contains the brutal dismemberment and emotional turmoil we have come to expect...
  • Trailer Watch – The Theory of Everything

    “I study the marriage of space and time” is an apt way to introduce this biopic on the incredible story of one of the world’s most renowned minds: Stephen Hawking. Eddie Redmayne takes the lead role and, although perhaps a surprise casting decision, he delivers a convincing portrayal of...
  • TV Review – Homeland, Season 4, Episode 2

    Warning: Spoilers follow! Troubles are brewing (when are they not?) within the CIA. Carrie (Claire Danes) is grounded on American soil but continues her investigation into former agents’ work in the Middle East. Quinn comes face to face with the pains accompanying a warrior’s homecoming. Meanwhile Saul is becoming...
  • TV Review – The Strain, Season 1, Episode 6

    Our favourite CDC investigator Dr. Eph is in trouble with the law this week, and with a solar eclipse shadowing New York City in darkness, there’s be nowhere to run from the infected… Warning: Spoilers follow! With last week’s episode “Runaways” ending with Dr. Ephraim being blamed for the death...
  • Trailer Watch – Nightcrawler

    Nightcrawler is the directorial debut of Dan Gilroy and stars Jake Gyllenhaal as a desperate young man who begins to make a living out of filming crimes as they occur in a pseudo-journalistic fashion. The trailer is intense to say the least. Gyllenhaal appears to be channelling the tormented...
  • Trailer Watch – Unbroken

    Angelina Jolie-directed Unbroken is set during World War Two. This biographical picture tells the story of Louis Zamperini (1917-2014), an Olympic runner who survived a plane crash, then endured two and a half years in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp. Zamperini is played by upcoming star Jack O’Connell (who recently appeared in...