Film Review: Toni Erdmann (2016)
byToni Erdmann may be the funniest film to hit cinemas in a long time. Its 162-minute runtime is peppered with inappropriate, kinetic jokes and…
Film review
Film Review: Manchester By The Sea (2016)
byFew filmmakers have had such a strong and profound effect on contemporary cinema in the span of just three feature films as writer, director,…
Review: National Theatre Live: No Man’s Land (2016)
byIn 1975 when Harold Pinter’s No Man’s Land first opened at the Old Vic in London, the “two Sirs” Sir Ralph Richardson and Sir John…
Film Review: Patriots Day (2016)
byPatriots Day is a film that did not need to be made. Shaped around the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, any citizen of the world…
Film Review: Gold (2016)
byThere seems to be a trend emerging of handsome leading men playing unseemly, balding male characters. Christian Bale did it in American Hustle, and…
Film Review: Resident Evil: The Final Chapter (2016)
byThe Final Chapter is the sixth installment of the Resident Evil series. It’s quite the achievement for writer/director at the creative helm of all…
Film Review: Le Ride (2016)
byIt seems impossible, living in a nation so inured with its sporting heroes that the names of the first team to tackle the Tour…
Film Review: Moonlight (2016)
byTo summarise Moonlight in one word – visceral. It would also be accurate to describe it as a gay black love story. Yet that…
Film Review: Live by Night (2016)
byBen Affleck returns as director/lead actor after his Oscar success with Argo. Live by Night is his new gangster drama set in the prohibition era….
Film Review: Split (2016)
byIs there a more frustrating director/screenwriter than M. Night Shyamalan? He builds up our hopes with the odd gem(The Sixth Sense), lowers our expectations…