To get us in the mood for Valentine’s Day, we look at the romantic pairings that have lit-up the silver screen.
With the talent involved and a fresher script, this could have been an exciting new beginning for the Jack Ryan character, but sadly this covers no new ground.
Ben Robins takes a look at who got in and who was left out of this year’s Oscar nominations.
How I Met Your Mother is a comedy that Ben Robins thinks everyone should be watching.
This isn’t just one of the biggest films of the year, it’s a mind-blowing masterpiece, writes Ben Robins.
How can any Christmas be complete without a stocking full of the finest in festive cinema? And it doesn’t get much finer than John McTiernan’s action classic Die Hard; an intense and straight-forward, Christmas-themed thrill-ride that saw the birth of Bruce Willis’ career. Set entirely over the course of one night (Christmas Eve) in a…
With a horde of family-friendly treats under their belt (and enough Academy Awards to match), many wouldn’t be judged for assuming that Pixar already had the animation game in the bag. But then in 2009, they flipped the tables once again, re-defining what audiences expected from an animated film. The movie that changed it all…
With interest in superhero movies at an all time high, many studios have begun fighting for the hottest properties. Everyone’s heard of Batman, Spider-Man and by now, even Thor, but one name that never seems to be mentioned is the Crimson Bolt. This is of course part of the charm of James Gunn’s deliciously deluded…
With his second film, Richard Ayoade has graduated his influences from French new wave to Orwellian dystopia and the result is of course, a much less sunny disposition and a far darker set of laughs, says Ben Robins.
A Scottish dramedy musical set to the songs of The Proclaimers? If you just shouted “sign me up!” over the blaring sound of I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles) you won’t be disappointed by this sunny sophomore effort from cockney actor-turned-director Dexter Fletcher. Following two mildly-shellshocked soldiers returning home to their families and loved ones, Sunshine…
With seven series in the can and a slowly vanishing sense of wonder, everybody’s favourite blood-spatter analyst turned serial killer was just about ready to hang up his knives. The eighth and final season of the once darkly hilarious detective drama promised to be a grand finale to the mad little life of Dexter Morgan,…