Film Review: The Hunger Games (2012)
The Hunger Games, the much hyped adaptation of Suzanne Collins’ wildly popular novel, has a wonderful central premise. In the future, two representatives from…
The Hunger Games
Film Review: The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 (2015)
With The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 the popular film franchise comes to a sombre, violent end. Working with the same team from the…
Film Review: The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 (2014)
Dragging out the final chapter has now become commonplace with film adaptations of YA novels. But with the latest instalment of The Hunger Games…
Film Review: The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013)
Despite slightly overstaying its welcome with a running length of two and a half hours, Catching Fire is rarely anything less than entertaining and engaging. As was the case with its predecessor, the film stands as one of the better efforts in terms of cinematic adaptations of popular young adult fictions series.
Film Review: Robin Hood (2018)
As Otto Bathurst‘s Robin Hood begins, Friar Tuck (Tim Minchin) implores us to forget everything we think we know about Robin Hood. It’s an ambitious thought. You…
Film Review: Ocean’s 8 (2018)
Why ask eleven men (or twelve, or thirteen) to do a job that will only take eight women, and who will do it in…
Review: National Theatre Live: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (2017)
Meta is a very particular brand of humour, but rarely is it done with the level of wit as distinguishes Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and…
Film Review: Free State of Jones (2016)
October 1862. The second year of the bloodiest conflict in US history tears apart the fabric of the country as it feeds steadily more…
Film Review: Allegiant (2016)
Back in the Chicago compound, Allegiant returns The Divergent Series to the journey of Tris Prior (Shailene Woodley) and her boyfriend Four (Theo James). …
Film Review: Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials (2015)
The young adult science fiction/dystopian future thing is like, so hot right now, but the overabundance of films in this genre in recent years has…