• Film Review: Avengers: Endgame

    11 years, 22 films and 80 years of comic history, Marvel’s Avengers Endgame is a cultural event. It is the culminating film in the current era for Marvel Studios, which began in 2008 with Iron Man, and is a love letter to the fans as it follows on from...
  • Trailer Watch: Avengers: Endgame

    The much awaited Avengers 4 trailer is finally here, after so much waiting I was beginning to think it would never arrive. Unsurprisingly, the trailer opens where Infinity War left off, with Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) stranded on The Benatar (The Guardians’ ship), stranded in space after leaving...
  • Look Out For… September

    As university creeps around the corner, September can be a mixed bag of emotions. So how appropriate that, in terms of cinema, audiences have such an eclectic range of choices! The Victorian era is well represented by Bill Nighy’s The Limehouse Golem, about a series of murders supposedly committed...
  • Ready In 5: Best of Sundance 2017

    As the industry’s mecca for fans of independent cinema, Sundance Film Festival is the annual amalgamation of actors, directors and press where many are granted with the opportunity to showcase their work and potentially sell distribution rights, aiming for a release during the rest of the year. Sundance 2017...
  • Arrival: A look into Humanity in the face of Aliens

    Arrival is a magnificent science-fiction film which perfectly achieves the balance so many large-scale movies aim for, and often fail to accomplish: to create a film that is impressive in its visual scope, yet maintains an emotional intimacy in amidst the plot and special effects.  This is Dennis Villeneuve’s...
  • Film Review – Captain America: Civil War

    When a studio spends years building up a release that is set to feature an ensemble cast, based off a hugely successful comic book, bring in crucial new characters, and gives away details in marketing material, it is quite easy for the final product to end up being completely...
  • Trailer Watch – Captain America: Civil War

    “I can do this all day.” No Marvel! No, we cannot! Stop with the emotional dialogue and the breath-taking set pieces and just give us the film already! For the uninitiated, Captain America: Civil War has been gearing itself up as the ultimate superhero film of all time, no...