• Trailer Watch – Steve Jobs

    It’s yet another Steve Jobs film, as apparently the world needs more of a man who is the embodiment of the marmite principle. This time it’s Michael Fassbender’s turn, and this first look trailer shows about five seconds of him in the title role. Adapting Walter Isaacson’s authorised 2011 biography of...
  • Anti-Advent Calendar #14

    Christmas. It’s become an addiction of indulgence, one made acceptable because not only do masses of people take the hit, but they’re comfortable talking about it too. So long as they continue, we’ll be in tow supplying goods of our own grade, as we resume our Anti-Advent Calendar… Before achieving widespread recognition...
  • Anti-Advent Calendar #13

    Christmas. The time to be surrounded by others, especially the eager and effervescent youth. Well, unless it turns out like day thirteen on our Anti-Advent Calendar… Want to be disturbed and further frightened by any form of contact with the youth of today? If so, Eden Lake is the film for...
  • Review – Lucy

    Luc Besson’s Lucy is a modern day sci-fi movie, reminiscent of 2011’s Limitless but with Scarlett Johansson as the puissant protagonist. Lucy is an innocent victim, forcefully caught up in the international drug smuggling game, co-ordinated by violent mobster Mr. Jang (Choi Min-sik). However, the smuggle does not go smoothly,...