This would have been a far better film if the writer and director put as much effort into writing the script as they did the action, says Tom Hopkins.
We have reached the final week before we all go off and stuff our faces with chocolate eggs, but there is still time to enjoy the odd trip to Union Films!
This is a watchable though rather forgettable insight into an influential man’s life, says Virginie Robe.
The Winter Soldier is a welcome continuation to the Captain America franchise.
Wes Anderson seems like the sort of person who, in childhood, was far more interested in analogue and organic things than digital technology. The first thing that may strike viewers as they watch The Grand Budapest Hotel, is the visual language that Anderson has commands here and all of his previous films. Many detractors have dismissed his films…
When was the last time you looked into the eyes of a stranger and really considered what lies under the skin? Jonathan Glazer’s Under the Skin is an experimental odyssey unlike any film in recent memory due to its outlandish form, unusual in an English-language film. This is a true art film with strong elements of…
This week looks to be awesome with All Is Lost, Much Ado About Nothing, our Indiana Jones Movie Marathon as well as The Secret Life of Walter Mitty and Last Vegas rounding off the week.
Superhero movies have been a staple of the cinematic world for years, but with the post-2000 boom in new franchises, Culture Editor Rebecca asks ‘where to next?’
The second film in The Hunger Games series comes to Blu-ray this week. Kirstie Carter explains why it certainly deserves a place on your shelf.
A neurotic self-pluralising computer analyst desperately seeks the reason for human existence in a self-collapsing future populated by talking heads and giant lycra onesies. Well, it could only come from Terry Gilliam. The king of kookiness returns to the genre he once defined with a fresh new take on the world we have to look…
I expected nothing but brutal violence, stunning visuals, beefy oiled men and a hint of homoerotism from Noam Murro’s 300: Rise of an Empire, and in a slow motion tidal wave of blood, sweat and pathetic fallacy, it delivered. For an hour and 42 minutes we endure two armies of anonymous waxed meat men in…
Film Editor Barnaby Walter chats to Chris Hemsworth about his movie Thor: The Dark World
Forget about the disastrous Twilight series and their so-called modern representation of vampires, Jim Jarmusch has just renewed (saved) the archetype of the immortal lovers. The film soberly opens with a red gothic font on a black background. She, in Morrocan Tanger, is lying in a bedroom covered with books from every language. He is…
Monday 10 March 2014: We shall be live-blogging Eli Roth’s controversial horror film Hostel! Let there be blood. Watch along with us, starting at 10.20PM.