Film Review: Like Crazy (2016)
byNot to be confused with the exceptional 2011 film starring Felicity Jones and Anton Yelchin, Like Crazy (or to use its Italian title, La Pazza…
Film Review: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016)
byIt’s been five years since we bid farewell to Harry Potter on screen and lost our will to live through to November. Harry Potter…
Film Review: Ella (2016)
byNot to be confused with Elle, the hard to watch rape revenge film from Paul Verhoeven which is out in cinemas at the same…
Film Review: The Phoenix Incident (2015)
byThe tagline for The Phoenix Incident is “blurring the line between fiction and reality”. Perhaps more appropriate would be “blurring the line between entertainment and…
Film Review: Morgan (2016)
byThe best sci-fis are about questions. Questioning the nature of reality and of the self. Asking what it is to be human, what consciousness…
Review: National Theatre Live: The Threepenny Opera (2016)
bySuch a display of cynicism has rarely been seen on stage as that in Rufus Norris‘ staging of Bertolt Brecht’s The Threepenny Opera. Its…
Film Review: Neon Bull (2015)
byNeon Bull (or Boi Neon) is a realist and observational take on the life of cattle handlers and rodeo workers in Brazil. It is…
Film Review: Moscow Never Sleeps (2015)
byJust as short-story collections have become the go-to book release for the author having a quiet year, we have seen the multi-narrative tale of…
Film Review: Nocturnal Animals (2016)
byNocturnal Animals opens with a jarring and disorienting sequence, one which is likely to fascinate and perturb viewers in equal measures. Middle aged and…
Film Review: The Student (2016)
byComing from the mind of Kirill Serebrennikov is the brooding and intellectual The Student. The film examines the place of Russian orthodox Christianity within school…