Category: Film
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This Disney animation feels like a cross between a Pixar movie and a DreamWorks effort. It has a big, warm feel to it (the Pixar side) with occasional moments of weak and unnecessary humour (the DreamWorks side). It actually isn’t made by either company, though Pixar-God John Lasseter is credited as an executive producer. It’s…
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Union Films are back again this week, and are covering any genre that might take your fancy!
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I think that I would have had other thoughts on Looper, had I seen it when it was released. There’s always something different when you’re sitting in a crowded cinema in avid anticipation of the newest blockbuster, your overpriced popcorn sitting next to you as you eagerly whisper to your friends and shush people before…
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The king of lack-luster rom-coms, Michael McConaughey turns his hand to ultra-violence.
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Bram Stoker’s classic gothic novel Dracula was a moderate bestseller during its author’s lifetime, but its real success occurred after his death. The twentieth century saw multiple motion picture adaptations of the novel and the title character, from the Universal horrors of the 1930s to the Hammer pictures starring Christopher Lee. Though the Lee instalments…
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Jack Harding charts how Christopher Nolan’s version of the Caped Crusader champions all others.
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When you consider the diversity of work that Steven Spielberg has produced over his long and successful career, it remains a staggering feat that he can elicit such powerful emotional responses in his audiences, whatever the genre, whatever the setting. His films have a grasp on how to pull at the audience’s heartstrings while simultaneously…
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Whilst it may not join the cannon of all time Disney greats such as The Lion King and Toy Story, Wreck-It Ralph will not disappoint for entertainment value. Smart, funny and brilliant animation, it is definitely the best family-comedy of the year. The film follows video-game villain Wreck-It Ralph (voiced by John C. Reilly) who…
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Zero Dark Thirty is Kathryn Bigelow’s outstanding follow-up to her Oscar winning picture The Hurt Locker. The film isn’t directly related to that picture, though they both feature terrorism, explosions (both physical and political) and extremely determined professionals. But this is film is actually a different beast altogether. Instead of giving the audience a minutely…
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I get the feeling Quentin Tarantino is a filmmaker who likes to cultivate a sense of controversy. I think film studios like this too. The people who are going to see his movies anyway are, well, going to see them anyway, and those who wouldn’t usually go to see a violent western will go so…
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Fear Itself is a horror anthology series that aired on NBC nearly five years ago. It was born after the series Masters of Horror was discontinued on Showtime. Although at the time US audiences hoped the series would be given a new lease of life on NBC under the title Fear Itself, it ran out…
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The gloriously violent film stands out as one of Tarantino’s best, delivered by an superb cast.
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Old school guns meet new school slowed down sequences in Gangster Squad, culminating in an explosive ending that will leave you begging for more. Echoes of Drive, Shanghai Noon and Die Hard will make you smile whilst trying to look past the fact that sadistic mob-boss Cohen (Sean Penn) looks mighty like Marlon Brando’s The…
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Les Misérables is a masterpiece. It is a beautiful, swirling vision brought stunningly to life by director Tom Hooper and producer Cameron Mackintosh. I have always been a fan of the musical, even before I saw the show in London. The haunting melodies of Claude-Michel Schonberg have enthralled and enchanted me all my life, and…