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It’s usually easy to identify a bad movie, however subjective that process might be. Some reasons might include bad acting, a poor screenplay or underwhelming CGI. However, it’s harder to acknowledge that, despite a film’s many flaws, it nonetheless contains great elements within its structure. One such example is the soundtrack, which can still be […]
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Think back to your favorite childhood films–the ones you could always be caught watching in the living room, the ones you could quote by heart and see vividly in your mind before you went to sleep at night. Were they action-packed, fantastical, comedic? Why did you like them? Was there a point when you suddenly […]
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Set during the dawn of the 20th century, Colette follows the true story of French author Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette. The film begins with Colette (Keira Knightley) marrying Willy (Dominic West), and him drawing her away from her rural beginnings and into the bustling city life of Paris. Here she is encouraged to express her talents as […]
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Yorgos Lanthimos’s excellent new film The Favourite is a bodice-ripper of a different sort. Gone are the breathy declarations love, replaced instead by absent-minded hand jobs and filthy jokes. Within the confines of a profoundly sordid royal household, we are treated to a spectacle of social climbing of the most devious sort. At times hilarious […]
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A dog, they say, is not just for Christmas, it’s for life and that’s true in both the fictional and literal sense. Whether you got a new dog over the festive season or not, man’s best friend has always played a seminal role in the creative arts and is a constant source of inspiration. In […]
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Image: ‘The Muppet Christmas Carol’ Miss Piggy, Kermit the Frog © 1992 Jim Henson Productions Image Credit: Stephen F. Morley Christmas, that yuletide day of excessive eating approaches. With that in mind, I feel it’s essential to look back at some impressive Christmas dinner moments in cinema. Whether decadent or modest, the following examples are […]
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For as long as I can remember, I have loved superhero movies. It is a love that has exhausted me and my wallet over recent years, and left me jaded despite films like Black Panther attempting to take the genre in new directions. Just a few days ago I would have been hesitant to say […]
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Image Credit: Pixabay After watching Damien Chazelle’s First Man recently, I felt it was important to revisit the film that introduced me to the glory of the genre at seven years old, and which remains one of my favourite science fiction films of all time. It’s clear that Silent Running was one of Chazelle’s primary […]
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Image Credit: Warner Bros. To begin this review, I should firstly admit to being a big fan of the Harry Potter Universe, or as it is now more commercially known, the Wizarding World. This is why I am saddened to admit that unlike many fans that have raged against this movie’s low critical reception, I […]
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Credit: Film4. Description: the poster for ‘Widows’. “Four armed robbers are killed in a failed heist attempt, only to have their widows step up to finish the job.” Initially, this Wikipedia summary of Widows says little to imply that it could be ground-breaking. Heist films have already reinvented themselves many times over (see: Ocean’s Eleven, […]
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Image Credit: Universal Pictures. Description: Mike Myers’ mask in Halloween. The recently released Halloween is the eleventh film in the much-maligned franchise and the second reboot, so when production was first announced back in 2017, it is safe to say that I kept my expectations in check. For once though, such cynicism proved unnecessary. General […]
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Image Credit: Universal Pictures Before we begin this review, a major pinch of salt. As someone who once read every Apollo mission’s Wikipedia entry, I may be a little bit obsessed with the Space Race. Anyway, First Man is the latest from Ryan Gosling and Damien Chazelle, on the back of their success with La […]
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The release of the new Captain Marvel trailer fills me with hope for the future of Marvel’s cinematic universe. For all its epic scope and breath-taking action scenes, Avengers: Infinity War still revolved almost entirely around male characters, their actions, their plains, and their desires. There were maybe two or three moments in the film […]
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It feels inappropriate to refer to Winnie-the-Pooh as a franchise, as though it would sully the precious world found in A A Milne’s classic childhood novels. Nevertheless, as this summer saw the release of yet another film returning to the Hundred Acre Wood, Disney’s Christopher Robin proves that the well of Pooh-related stories has not […]
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As we prepare to watch Tom Hardy graduate from Bane’s venom-inhaling mask in The Dark Knight Rises (2012) to a full-scale parasite in Ruben Fleischer’s upcoming Venom (2018), let’s consider the importance of the mask outside the horror and conventional superhero genre. Despite these stereotypes, this favourite form of disguise has made significant appearances in […]
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Netflix brought us The Kissing Booth this past May, which quickly rose to popularity with young audiences. But in the battle of 2018 YA film adaptations, To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before is a sure winner. Based on Jenny Han’s best-selling novel of the same name, this story follows Lara Jean Covey, a die-hard […]
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Completing all the quests feels like a momentous achievement. Getting that golden 100% on your save file isn’t bad either. In gaming, completion is often everything; inflated egos and bragging rights last for weeks. Yet for all the strain and countless hours you’ve burned, something’s missing. Ultimately, you know you’ve taken the boring path, you’ve […]
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Image Credit: Twentieth Century Fox Among the biggest news to come out of the entertainment industry recently is that the latest reboot heading to our screens will be of the much-loved Buffy the Vampire Slayer series. The news was broken by a report from The Hollywood Reporter and, as one might expect, it has since […]
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Image Credit: Epic Games via Polygon Duncan Jones, the director behind Warcraft and Moon, will be bringing Rogue Trooper, one of the 2000 AD properties of Oxford-based comics publishers Rebellion, to the big screen. The director sparked intense fan speculation last week by teasing that his next film would be based on a mystery comic book […]
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