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Ben Wheatley is something of an anomaly in modern cinema. A critical darling who refuses to explore conventional narratives or give easy answers in his filmmaking, in only four feature films he has managed to convince the UK cinematic elite that he is the next big thing. I’m not so sure. Having seen Wheatley’s Kill […]
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Faster Than Light is a small, retro space game that has, until now, flown under the radar.
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Daft Punk’s latest single has broken Spotify’s record for most streams in a single day.
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A title sequence. It’s that little bit near the start of every TV show that lets you know exactly what you’re watching, the bit that’s the same week in week out. It can be about six or seven seconds long (a la Breaking Bad) or closer to two whole minutes, but some shows take their […]
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Sam Everard gives his take on The Comedy of Errors – Theatre Group’s Fresher’s Play.
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Shattered Glass is the fascinating true story of young journalist Stephen Glass, writer for the New Republican and office suck-up. He constantly flatters his co-workers, slags off their new boss to gain their favour, and craves attention through an appearance of humility: his catchphrase when pitching an article is “but I know it’s silly, I […]
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It is the fate of a huge number of TV shows to be cancelled. This can be after a few seasons, one season, even a few episodes. In many cases, the show is crap. There’s nothing else to be done than humanely take it out the back and shoot it in the alley. However, there […]
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Further to an earlier report, George Lucas has announced that he will be donating the majority of his $4.05 billion settlement from the sale of Lucasfilm to Disney to charity. The filmmaker has not announced which specific organisation the money will be going towards yet, but reports indicate that the chosen charity will be one […]
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The makers of the sitcom Community announced on Tuesday that the premiering of the 4th season on NBC has been pushed back to February 7th, 4 months later than the original date. The 4th season was supposed to begin on NBC on October 19th, but a video featuring the cast was released recently that confirmed […]
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Odds are, you’ll know who I mean when I say the name Peter Jackson. The behemoth that is The Lord of the Rings trilogy has ensured that the New Zealander will forever be remembered for his services to film, but that doesn’t mean he started off on such an epic scale. Long before he ventured to Middle-Earth, […]
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Ariel Schulman and Henry Joost, two documentary filmmakers from New York, decided in 2010 to make a film charting the burgeoning friendship between Ariel’s brother, Yaniv, and Abby, an eight-year-old artist from Michigan who contacted him through Facebook after she paints a version of a photograph he took. Yaniv begins a relationship with the girl’s […]
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Let’s get this straight: Lockout is Escape From New York in space, minus almost everything that made that film a classic. Snow (Guy Pearce) is framed for the murder of an undercover agent (YAWN) and is due to be sent to orbital space-prison and floating disaster waiting to happen ‘MS One’. Meanwhile, the President’s daughter […]
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Alan Ball’s Six Feet Under first aired in 2001, coming soon after the success of American Beauty, for which he wrote the Oscar-winning screenplay. The show concerns the Fisher family, whose existence is thrown into disarray after patriarch Nathaniel Fisher (Richard Jenkins) is killed in a car crash just before Christmas. Widow Ruth (Frances Conroy), […]
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Rockstar’s Max Payne 3 is not original. It isn’t groundbreaking – other reviewers have pointed out that the only new feature is that Max holds the same guns in cut scenes as he was using in actual gameplay, which, despite being a nice touch for perfectionists, is hardly revolutionising the industry. It isn’t well written, […]