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Warning: Potential spoilers ahoy. Fictional deaths are in vogue nowadays. A raisin-head dude snapped his fingers last year, and suddenly half of earth’s population were extinguished. And yet more demises could take place in Marvel’s phase three conclusion Endgame. But creators aren’t just making silver screen heroes pass into oblivion. The death count will no […]
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Warning: Spoilers ahead. The sequel is a difficult beast. Few directors manage to equal the quality of the original, let alone surpass it. There are some occasional cases of the former (The Godfather Part II, Toy Story 2), and even the latter (Austin Powers 2, The Dark Knight), though these examples are rare specimens. In […]
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La La Land opens with a Los Angeles traffic jam like no other, with disgruntled drivers euphorically bursting into ‘Another Day of Sun’, proving that the movie musical can transform the most mundane situation into a carnival. This promises 128 minutes of sickly hyper-happiness, with jazz hands and smiling faces to spare. And whilst viewers […]
Continue ReadingThis week, Zombieland director Ruben Fleischer brings us a new gun fest. But be warned, Gangster Squad is not for the faint-hearted; two people are dismembered within the first ten minutes. We’re plunged straight into the mob-dominated LA of 1949, where the water is murky with blood and the air is thick with gunfire. The […]
Continue ReadingSince the release of 2011’s Drive, Danish writer/director Nicholas Winding Refn is making a name for himself amongst British cinema goers. In September Refn ranked third on The Guardian’s list of the 23 best directors in the world, further proving that he is gaining respect in a cinematic world in which both film media and […]
Continue ReadingChloe Cornish gets on the campaign trail with George Clooney and Ryan Gosling.
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