• “Splish Splash Na’vi Taking a Bath” – Film Review: Avatar: The Way of Water

    James Cameron's sequel to Avatar has finally come to cinemas after 13 years of waiting. Can Avatar: The Way of Water live up to the spectacle of the first film? Will Stead went to find out.  ...
  • How Long is Too Long?

    Films are getting longer and longer, and I don’t think my bladder can quite handle it. I’m massively in favour of directors and creatives being given more freedom to put the stories they want to tell on screen. If a story needs 3 or even 4 hours to be...
  • Film Review: Terminator: Dark Fate

    “The thing that won’t die, in the nightmare that won’t end.” In 1984, this was one of the taglines for James Cameron’s The Terminator and sadly in 2019 it has become an apt description for the franchise itself....
  • Titanic The Musical @ Theatre Royal

    Make no mistake, Thom Southerland’s Titanic The Musical is nothing like the 1997 James Cameron film – except for the fact that the ship does, inevitably, sink. This chamber version by Maury Yeston (music and lyrics) and Peter Stone (story and book) has a cast list of 25 excellent...
  • “How Have You Never Seen…Titanic?”

    We’re introducing our new feature, “How Have You Never Seen…?”, where our writers finally get round to watching a classic film they’ve somehow never seen before, and review the time-honoured piece of cinema for their first time. In our first installment, Joe gets onboard with one of the most successful films in...
  • Scrapbook – Ambitious Films

    In anticipation for Christopher Nolan’s wormhole wandering in his pioneering sci-fi epic Interstellar, our writers have united on a voyage to discover some of the most ambitious films ever to have been made. War and Peace The production notes for the 1967 Best Foreign Language Picture winner, War and Peace...