Film Review: Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk (2016)
Looking around online, most of the diatribe surrounding Ang Lee’s latest feature Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk is focused purely on the tech of…
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Review: Royal Shakespeare Company: King Lear (2016)
King Lear, surely one of the most challenging roles that the Bard ever wrote, is not a role lightly undertaken. Playing any of Shakespeare’s…
Film Review: The Fencer (2015)
It may seem funny to compare, but the Finnish film The Fencer is a lot like watching School of Rock, – a stripped down…
Film Review: Your Name (2016)
Hayao Miyazaki isn’t the only Japanese director making whimsical, environmentally charged animations. Makoto Shinkai has also contributed. Your Name is Shinkai’s latest feature and it’s confusing…
Film Review: Like Crazy (2016)
Not 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)
It’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)
Not 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)
The 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)
The 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)
Such a display of cynicism has rarely been seen on stage as that in Rufus Norris‘ staging of Bertolt Brecht’s The Threepenny Opera. Its…