Author: Barnaby Walter
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The Awakening ★★★★☆
This is a wonderfully creepy and very intelligent ghost story from first-time feature film director Nick Murphy. Backed by the BBC and French film giants StudioCanal, it’s yet another example of how exciting, vibrant and varied British filmmaking is at this moment in time. The story is reminiscent of other similar chillers, such as The […]
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The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 ★☆☆☆☆
The first part of the final chapter of the sickening vampire love story series is both pointless and boring.
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The Rum Diary ★★☆☆☆
This is a rather unsuccessful adaptation of the semi-autobiographical novel by Hunter S. Thompson, a fictionalised account of his experience as a writer trying to make his mark in the world of journalism and publishing. Our protagonist’s name is Paul Kemp (Johnny Depp), a struggling author who arrives in Puerto Rico to work as an […]
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The Ides of March ★★★★★
This year has been a great year for good, high quality cinema. The Ides of March is one of 2011’s best. It’s directed by George Clooney (who also takes a supporting role) and stars Ryan Gosling, the hottest – both talent-wise and looks-wise – young actor on the planet right now. It’s a twisty and […]
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We Need to Talk About Kevin ★★★★★
Paedophobic cinema has become a fairly classic staple of the horror genre. The Omen, The Exorcist and The Shining have all helped cultivate, or perhaps manipulate, our very potent fear of witnessing something so innocent display traces of evil. To some extent We Need to Talk About Kevin is a horror movie. First and foremost […]
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Crazy, Stupid, Love. ★★☆☆☆
This severely overrated romantic comedy drama is a rather boring rehash of Valentine’s Day, The Kids Are All Right and It’s Complicated, with none of the latter two’s charm or wit. It isn’t as horrendous as Valentine’s Day (not many things are), but it does have one of those all-these-different-people-connected-by-love-or-the-hunt-for-love-and-maybe-they-are-closer-connected-than-you-think type of narratives. Steve Carell […]
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DVD & Blu-Ray review: Battle: Los Angeles ★★☆☆☆
Battle: Los Angeles tries desperately to be Independence Day meets The Hurt Locker, but sadly it has neither the brains nor the characterisation of either of those two superior pictures. Directed by South African filmmaker Jonathan Liebesman (to whom we have to thank for The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning), the film is a derivative […]
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DVD & Blu-Ray review: Perfect Life ★★☆☆☆
This hazy and unsatisfying college life thriller tries to be hip, cool and out there, but ends up feeling dull, deranged and more than a little pretentious. Jesse Bradford, a competent young actor who handles the silly script as best he can, plays Jack, a partying druggy who spends most of his time on the […]
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DVD & Blu-Ray: Loaded ★☆☆☆☆
A group of good-looking youngsters party, deal drugs and murder people in this terribly bad straight-to-DVD dud from Alan Pao. The clunky story sees hot rich boy Tristan (Desperate Housewives’ Jesse Metcalfe) escape from his domineering father with his younger brother Hayden (Gossip Girl’s Chace Crawford) for a night out drinking, partying and ogling at strippers. […]
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Union Films’ Halloween All-Nighter: A Preview
The Edge’s Film Editor takes a look at what Union Films has in store for the students of Southampton this year for Halloween.
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Film Archive: The original A Nightmare on Elm Street movie had intelligence, wit and bite
Wes Craven’s iconic classic A Nightmare on Elm Street has been parodied, remade, continued and retread so much, the spirit of the first film is hard to remember. Horror expert Kim Newman, writing in his huge book Nightmare Movies (buy it – you have to), holds up Nightmare as the film “responsible for the resurrection […]
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The ODEON Southampton Saga Part II: The Response
A happy end to the saga?
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Jane Eyre ★★☆☆☆
This fractured attempt at a remake simply doesn’t work
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An Open Letter to ODEON Southampton
Our film editor fights back against consistent incompetence