Category: Cinema

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    Jacob Hando

    Review- Top Gun: Maverick

    Unmissable, masterful, and one of the greatest sequels of all time; Jacob Hando sure has a lot to say about Top Gun: Maverick.

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    Ashish Dwivedi

    Global via the Local: 5 Films from Early Popular Indian Cinema

    Indian cinema is humongous. With more than 20 regional industries, it has transformed its global reputation as an enthralling entertainment industry both within and off the shores of India. Amid these variations within cinemas, three particular forms of cinema have stood apart in terms of gross film production and thematic experimentation: the film-industries of Bombay, […]

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    Jacob Hando

    Review: Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness

    The latest MCU film has arrived- but does it live up to the madness of its title?

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    Michal Delost

    Review: The Northman – Historical epic goes above and beyond

    Michal Delost reviews a rare big budget historical film from Robert Eggers.

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    Harry Geeves

    Review: The Batman – Pattinson Delights In Tonal Spectacle

    No Kite himself, Harry Geeves, reviews the latest outing to Gotham City.

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    Jacob Hando

    Review: The Godfather 50th Anniversary

    Film Editor Jacob Hando got to see one of the all time greats at the cinema.

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    Reece Beckett

    Review: Jackass Forever

    The boys are back for the fourth time- but does their humour still work? Reece Beckett believes so.

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    Katie Evans

    Review: Scream – Requel is the new Sequel

    Scream (2022), following on as an unofficial direct sequel of 2011’s Scream 4, is a twisted tale that works perfectly with the horror of the small town of Woodsboro that was first constructed and brought to our screens in 1996. With Ghostface back in business, Scream offers 2 hours of solid enjoyment and all your favourite horror […]

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    Reece Beckett

    Review: Belfast

    Reece Beckett was not impressed with the audience favourite Belfast…

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    Callum Nelmes

    Review: Nightmare Alley

    Is Guillermo Del Toro’s latest a cinematic dream? Callum Nelmes thinks so.

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    Jacob Hando

    Review: The Power of the Dog – One of the Year’s Best

    The closing shot of The Searchers is the most famous and influential shot in the Western genre, as John Wayne is framed to perpetual loneliness by the rectangle of a door frame. The Power of the Dog updates the shot very early on into a triptych one: Benedict Cumberbatch’s Phil Burbank prowls between the frame […]

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    Reece Beckett

    Review: The Matrix Resurrections – Visually Fantastic but Far From Perfect

    2021 seems to have been a year of skepticism towards blockbusters: there was the Spielberg remake of West Side Story, at first a controversial decision that saw film fans divided until the film released to surprisingly intense acclaim; there was Spider-Man: No Way Home, a film so abundantly hyped up that disappointment seemed almost inevitable… […]

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    Reece Beckett

    Review: Spider-Man: No Way Home – Fan Service, but Strangely Paced

    Given the current troubles facing cinema, perhaps film fans should be thankful that something as industrial as Marvel (and/or Disney) are around to give it a kiss of life with the long-awaited conclusion to Tom Holland’s MCU trilogy. After No Time to Die performed well, there seemed to be a general assumption that cinema would be […]

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    Jacob Hando

    Review: The Harder They Fall

    One of the great lies of Hollywood is that the Old West was white. The Western genre dates to the inception of filmmaking and its gilded era in the 1950s and 1960s saw productions in that genre churned out at such a rate as to make Marvel blush. Of course, seemingly every single one of […]