Author: Sam Everard
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Review: Isle of Wight Festival – Saturday/Sunday
Saturday saw me hanging around the main stage again for most of the day, kicking off at one o’clock with Big Country. Their inoffensive brand of 80s stadium-rock was the perfect cure for my birthday hangover from the previous day, the band storming through a catalogue of their greatest hits and seeming like they were […]
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Review: Isle of Wight Festival 2012 – Thursday/Friday
I entered the festival innocent, naïve, clean. I left a man. Isle of Wight was the first festival I had ever gone to, and it confirmed every perception I had of what festivals were like: the overflowing toilets, the mud, the post-GCSE’s teenagers just discovering alcohol (and similarly, vomit). But bodily fluids and unsanitary conditions aside, […]
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DVD and Blu-Ray review: Take Shelter ★★★★★
The sophomore effort from writer-director Jeff Nichols, Take Shelter concerns blue-collar father Curtis LaForche (Michael Shannon), happily married to Samantha (Jessica Chastain) and proud parent of a deaf daughter. When Curtis starts having apocalyptic visions of a biblical thunderstorm, and of his loved ones turning on him, it begins to tear his family apart. For […]
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The Raid ★★★★☆
The Raid has the potential to disappear under the radar: it features an all-Indonesian cast and is directed by little-known Welshman Gareth Evans, and has received the bare minimum of exposure. Don’t let this put you off though: missing this movie would be a travesty. The plot is pure cliché. A S.W.A.T team, featuring the […]
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DVD & Blu-Ray: Haywire ★★★☆☆
Coming hot on the heels of last year’s Contagion, Steven Soderbergh’s Haywire is the astoundingly prolific director’s first proper foray into the action genre. Soderbergh has never struggled with making genres his own, leaving an obvious authorial signature on each film despite his extensive back catalogue, and Haywire is no exception. The essence of this […]
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DVD & Blu-Ray: Straw Dogs ★★★★☆
A movie deemed so disturbing it was only released in the UK in its entirety in 2002, Straw Dogs concerns American mathematician David (Dustin Hoffman) and his wife Amy (Susan George), who move back to her fictional hometown of Wakely, Cornwall and face increasing hostility from the locals. Naturally, these actions escalate in their intensity […]
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DVD & Blu-ray Review: Super ★★★★☆
Despite the trailer, this is not a Kick-Ass rip-off
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EDGE Goes 90s: Review of Hard Boiled
The EDGE’s retrospective on the greatest action movie you’ve never seen…