Film Review: Julieta (2016)
byThe opening image of Julieta is a vast sea of red. A deep, breathing, powerful wall – it represents an opening curtain, a beating…
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Film Review: The Girl on the Train (2016)
byReleased in 2015, Paula Hawkins‘ The Girl on the Train is the fastest selling adult novel in history. This is no doubt due to it…
Film Review: House of VHS (2016)
byGoing into a film called House of VHS (aka Ghost in the Machine) I knew it would have something to do with an area I’m very…
Review: National Theatre Live: The Deep Blue Sea (2016)
byIn post-WWII London, Hester Collyer (Helen McCrory) is the wife of a barrister-turned-high court judge. But she wouldn’t say as much. She couldn’t say…
Film Review: Under the Shadow (2016)
byThe Iran-Iraq war started in September of 1980 and lasted eight years. An estimated one million people died in a war which saw Saddam…
Film Review: Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children (2016)
byYoung Adult fiction has been mined ruthlessly by Hollywood with varying levels of success. For every Harry Potter, there’s a Percy Jackson. Some are…
Film Review: The Magnificent Seven (2016)
byContinuing the seemingly nonstop trend of remakes is Hollywood’s latest big budget adventure The Magnificent Seven. Antoine Fuqua’s brings a modern touch to the western…
Film Review: Equity (2016)
byEquity, directed by Meera Menon, is a new corporate Wall Street drama that basically sums up the struggles women face in a man’s world….
Film Review: Life, Animated (2016)
byIt is not really fitting to be laughing at a boy with autism, but in Roger Ross Williams’s documentary Life, Animated, he provides the…
Film Review: The Beatles: Eight Days a Week – The Touring Years (2016)
byOver a period of four years The Beatles went from a group of four Liverpool youths playing in the backrooms of pubs to changing…