Category: Film
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Following its record-breaking opening in the USA, Reece Beckett eyes up Venom 2’s imminent release.
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In the annals of film history, Apocalypse Now appears to be the only rival to match No Time To Die, the 25th James Bond film, as the most cursed production ever. It started with Daniel Craig’s early comments about never wanting to play Bond again and then there was the firing of original director Danny…
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Over the last few years, Hollywood seems to have lost its imagination. We can now expect most big releases to be sequels, spin-offs, reboots and adaptations. This has left me wondering why Hollywood has lost its spark; have they genuinely run out of new ideas or are they just creating films they know will make…
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School and college films are important to everyone. They can represent nostalgic pasts or chapters in life that have thankfully closed. Universal for everyone, the school-college film can achieve an immortality without needing to strive for ‘greatness’. Here are some of our favourites… School of Rock (2003) Jack Black was all the rage in the 00s,…
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As soon as the rumours surfaced of a Nicolas Cage collaboration with Sion Sono for the director’s first English language film, the internet was overjoyed and bursting with anticipation. Arising around three years ago, some wondered if said rumours would ever become a reality. However, 2021 saw the perfect zany match of Nicolas Cage –…
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James Wan’s impressive string of great films makes him one of the most reliably consistent horror directors, both in terms of quality and box office take. The acclaimed director of The Conjuring 1 and 2, Saw and Aquaman among others over the span of his twenty year plus career has solidified his status as and…
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Lucy Williams takes a look at the period drama genre and how it tells its stories.
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A film finale to the cult favourite mockumentary sit-com which ran from 2014 to 2018, People Just Do Nothing: Big In Japan centres around the Kurupt FM gang – a group of friends running a Pirate radio station. Reunited by their loyal manager, Chabuddy G (played brilliantly by Asim Chaudry), the gang discover that the…
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The original Candyman, a cult favourite based upon a short story by Clive Barker and directed by Bernard Rose, is a personal favourite and remains a landmark horror film for its racial politics (up there with Night of the Living Dead and The People Under the Stairs, the latter of which remains unsung but does…
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The shock, the relief, the triggering – let’s face it, we all have and love engaging in a controversial opinion. Our writers are no exception and have a list of films guaranteed to relieve those that did not get the hype whilst simultaneously angering film bros everywhere. Blade Runner 2049 Denis Villeneuve is a fascinating…
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We’ve been expecting you Mr Bond, for about 17 months. Christian Wise reminds us why excitement levels should still be sky-high, and not sky-fall.
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‘How far will you go to fulfil your dreams?’ is the question hanging over the action in When the Screaming Starts. A dark and gory take on traditional documentaries, a viewer is taken along for a wild ride with an unlikely crew of wannabe serial killers. When the Screaming Starts introduces Norman (Jared Rogers) the wannabe filmmaker…
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Remakes and reboots are often met with dismayed groans. But are they always consistently bad?
