Marmite. Garlic. Brussels Sprouts. Don’t worry, you’re in the right place; this is a film review. Why the hell has it began with a list of disgusting foods you ask? Well, that’s the point; to many people, they’re actually delicious. You simply either love ’em or hate ’em. Which brings us to Chronicle. First-time director…
Prometheus has managed to cultivate that kind of legendary cult following that movie studios dream of. During the lead up to its release, fans have been blogging, twittering, guessing and criticising, eating up all the manufactured pieces of viral marketing as they go. But as I watched Prometheus, I found it rather easy to forget…
A film about a sex addict in New York sounds like a banal rom-com starring some A-list heartthrob like Ashton Kutcher or Gerard Butler. Well, Steve McQueen’s Shame couldn’t be further from that stomach-churning premise. The British director’s sombre morality play about a sex pest in the city is a bleak and intriguing affair; an unflinching…
Disc rental and online streaming service LOVEFiLM have made it possible for their subscribers to enjoy online film and television content in high definition. Today a selection of movies and television episodes were unveiled in the HD format, with more to apparently follow soon. Many of the films currently available in HD are from the…
This is a Cuban zombie movie. It’s the first of its kind, apparently, and judging on the quality of this piece of work I won’t be devastated if it were the last. Of course, filmmakers more talented than Alejandro Brugués may come along and make Cuban zombie movies that are masterpieces, and if they do I…
As much as I try to go into each film I see with as little prejudice as possible, the advertising campaign for Alexander Payne’s new movie The Descendants had convinced me I wasn’t going to like it. The trailer had an incredibly annoying tone to it, as if it was saying ‘Look! This movie is kooky! Slightly…
As a self-confessed Marvel/Comic/Superhero fangirl, I was always going to enter the screening of Avengers Assemble with unrealistically high expectations, but after an altercation at TGI Friday’s which caused me to miss the first 20 seconds, I was immediately submerged into a world where the film’s stupid name (Avengers Assemble? Really?) really didn’t matter. Cue…
Battleship is considered a sinker with a plot full of holes.
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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Director Oliver Hermanus’s dreamlike, intoxicating new film Beauty is a character study of a man who is both a monster and a victim. Set in vibrant, colourful modern-day South Africa, the film tells the story of François (Deon Lotz), a carpenter and family man with a wife and daughter. He has a secret, however, that…
Safe is one of those lumbering, stupid action movies that should have been shot on sight by a big straight-to-DVD gun as it crashed its way to multiplexes. Occasionally, these unfortunate beasts, ones that would be more at home on the ‘Bargain Chart’ shelves of Tesco, make their way into cinemas, and the experience is…
Following the recent announcement of an upcoming sequel to 2004’s comedy smash hit Anchorman, a new teaser trailer featuring Ron Burgundy and the rest of the Channel 4 Evening News Team has been released. It is the first new material from the franchise in years and it does not disappoint, leaving us even more excited…
Dark Shadows is the type of film for which that overused and clunkingly clichéd phrase ‘darkly comic’ was first invented. It aspires to be very ‘darkly comic’. In one scene our protagonist (a vampire named Barnabus Collins, played by Johnny Depp) rips apart a group of innocent builders. In another we are laughing at his…