• Film Review – Tale of Tales

    Matteo Garrone’s Tale of Tales is unlike any fairytale movie you’d have ever seen. A mishmash of the fantasy, horror and supernatural genres, it is considerably dark, sinister and a far cry from the Disney classics we’re perhaps more used to. Not darker like many Disney live action productions...
  • Film Review – Child 44

    Adapted from Tom Rob Smith’s novel of the same name, Child 44 depicts the life of a high profile Soviet security officer, Agent Leo Demidov (Tom Hardy), as he risks all he knows, or thought he knew, to uncover the truth behind a series of child murders. The trouble...
  • Around the World in 80 Films #2

    The increasing marginalisation of minorities by the government brought about growing political angst, riots and allegations of police brutality. It is in this political angst that we find the most important theme of Mathieu Kassovitz’s classic 1995 film, La Haine (Hatred). In suburban Paris, you cannot help but be...