Film Reviews

  Today, more so than ever, immigration is a hot topic and is affecting the lives of so many people, similar to when Irish and Italian people migrated to the USA, exactly what the 2015 release of Brooklyn charts. How fitting it has come at exactly the right time....

“Alas, poor Yorick”.  “Brevity is the soul of wit.”  “To be or not to be”. Some of the most well known lines in English and theatrical history and all from the same play.  Shakespeare’s Hamlet may be over 400 years old, but it certainly has not lost it’s spark...

Having read a number of negative reviews, I went into Pan with relatively low expectations. After all, there have been so many movies and re-makes about Peter Pan in the past, how could this one offer any originality or flare? However, I must say I was pleasantly surprised. Stylistically,...

It’s not every day you get to watch an Ethiopian sci-fi/horror road-trip. For this reason alone, Crumbs is an utterly unique experience. Miguel Llanso has directed many short-films (Where is my Dog, Pero Liquen, First Peasant on Mars), but this is his feature-length debut. Whilst there are a few...

The fact that you know how the story will end gives Amy a sense of foreboding, which amplifies as the documentary develops. The film is entirely told through the use of existing footage – much of it previously unseen – and interviews with the most important people surrounding Winehouse...

The original terminator films are pop culture icons. With Arnold Schwarzenegger as the no-nonsense, gun wielding metal man from the future, his famous lines ‘I’ll be back’ and ‘hasta la vista baby’ have been parodied and referenced hundreds of times over the years. But Terminator: Salvation was a flop,...

One mark of a good film is if it can overcome the language barrier and entertain people of any nationality. Oscar-nominated Wild Tales (Relatos salvajes) achieves this and delivers one of the best foreign language experiences out there. Wild Tales consists of six separate stories, all with a constant...