The Veronica Mars movie project on Kickstarter made history yesterday as $2 million was made in less than ten hours, through fan donations desperate to see this movie be made. Yesterday the creator of Veronica Mars, Rob Thomas, and Kristen Bell, the actor who played the titular character Veronica, announced that Warner Brothers has agreed…
Oz: The Dull and the Underwhelming, more like.
Though it predictably lost to Argo, Amour did remarkably well to receive a Best Picture Academy Award nomination. The Oscars often do their hardest to pretend English-language cinema is the be-all and end-all form of cinema, and it was refreshing to see admittance this year that some movies, spoken in a different tongue, may be…
It’s the last movie marathon of this term and we’re showing you a fan-favourite, The Lord of the Rings. With the extended editions showing from 7pm Saturday, make sure you’re ready for a full night of Middle Earth extravagance! Just as usual, with the ticket you get an exclusive t-shirt from the event (this time,…
Stoker is a film lover’s chocolate. It’s covered in gloss, blood, Hitchcockian-homage, terrific acting, wonderful music and an atmosphere to die for. It’s probably the most delicious film cinema will see this year. Directed by Park Can-wook, director of Oldboy, and scripted by (believe it or not) Prison Break actor Wentworth Miller, this is a…
Middle-earth dominates Union Films this week with The Hobbit and a LOTR All-Nighter!
I didn’t get on with Malick’s previous film, The Tree of Life – a pretentious mixture of grass stroking and dinosaurs. To the Wonder, which marks a new age of prolific Malick ventures as opposed to his usual decade-long wait, is in my opinion the much better film. It’s testing, and those with low tolerance…
The 85th Academy Awards brought together the artists which made 2012 an unforgettable year for film. When I heard the news that Seth Macfarlane had been hired to host the Oscars, I was surprised but excited. I do enjoy the odd episode of Family Guy but was left disappointed. His jokes were incredibly hit and…
So with only two weeks to go until the Lord of the Rings All-Nighter, Union Films are taking the opportunity to give us a week of comedy, romance, music and more! Kicking us off this week in our Tuesday 7pm slot we have the bizarre mixture of neurosis and humour in Silver Lining Playbook. The…
Over recent years Guillermo del Toro, director of numerous delights like Pan’s Labyrinth, has moved onto the producing side of filmmaking with ghostly Mama being his latest venture. The last horror film that del Toro produced was Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark, a film that only provoked scares when you realised just how bad…
I have mixed feelings about the horror sub-genre that has been dubbed ‘torture-porn’, but this film should be enough to convince most that it is a vile, sickening trend in modern cinema. Bereavement is a cold, nasty piece of work. The only redeeming feature is the interesting cinematography by Marco Cappetta. Apart from that, director…
A Turtle’s Tale: Sammy’s Adventures is a Belgium-made CGI animated adventure aimed squarely at very young children. It’s been dubbed (rather clumsily at times) into English using the voices of John Hurt, Dominic Cooper and Gemma Arterton. Though it does, just about, work as a film in its own right, it is almost impossible not…
The biggest disappointment of the year so far, Mama is a feeble and thoroughly ridiculous horror from Guillermo Del Toro. Now working more as a prolific producer than a director (his recent efforts include Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark, Puss in Boots and Rise of the Guardians), Del Toro is becoming something of a…
This British film, written and directed by Dan Mazer, is a co-production between StudioCanal, Working Title and (rather intriguingly) Amazon rental company LOVEFiLM. It’s being marketed as the next feature in a long line of hits including Four Weddings and a Funeral, Bridget Jones’s Diary and Love Actually. It’s a shame these titles have been…