Film Review: Embrace of the Serpent (2015)
bySet in the dense Amazon rainforest is Colombia’s entry for Best Foreign Film at last year’s Academy Awards, Embrace of the Serpent. Based on…
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Film review: Star Trek Beyond (2016)
byThe third instalment of J.J. Abrams’ newly rebooted Star Trek series is Star Trek Beyond. This time, however, he passes the directorial torch to…
Film Review: Lights Out (2016)
byIt’s a simple concept. A creature that inhabits the shadows and cannot visibly exist in the light. It breeds a certain kind of paranoia,…
Film Review: We Are Twisted Fucking Sister! (2014)
byWe Are Twisted Fucking Sister! is a two hour and fifteen minutes extravaganza that is written, directed and produced by Andrew Horn. For anyone who…
Film Review: Dial M For Murder (1954)
byProduced at the height of the first 3D phase in 1953 (which for anyone who was sentient at the time mercifully only lasted the…
Film Review: Hitchcock/Truffaut (2015)
byIt’s crazy to think there was a time when Alfred Hitchcock was perceived to be more of an entertainer than an artist. It’s even…
Film Review: Ghostbusters (2016)
byIf there’s something strange, in your neighbourhood, it’s probably a pathetic loser living in his parents’ basement trolling the female Ghostbusters. And how disappointed…
Film Review: Sing Street (2016)
byIrishman John Carney is one of the darlings of the low-budget indie scene having made Once and Begin Again. His latest effort Sing Street…
Film Review: Our Kind of Traitor (2016)
byAfter the immense success of John le Carre’s The Night Manager earlier this year on the small screen, following on its heels is Susanna White‘s large-screen rendering of Our Kind…
Film Review: Love & Friendship (2016)
byHiding behind the ironically bland title Love & Friendship is a whip smart, witty, lovely acted Jane Austen adaptation; one of the best on…