A certainty at the Academy Awards every year is that some films- whether audience favourites or critically acclaimed avant-garde cinema- will fail to land the nominations they were expecting or indeed worthy of. This year […]
Film | Controversy and the Oscars
The build-up to the Oscars is in full swing and the nominated films are being closely analysed in the press. As always this year controversial stories about the nominated films are being featured in the […]
Film | The Baftas: the aftermath
Sunday’s BAFTA awards celebrated, in true British style, the championing the underdog. Up against the blockbuster powerhouses of Lincoln, Les Miserables, and Django: Unchained, it was Ben Affleck’s Argo which undoubtedly came out on top. […]
Comedy | Mutant Milk
3/5 stars With a name as bizarre and beguiling as ‘Mutant Milk’ I was pretty sure that Leeds’ alternative student comedy night could not fail to be ‘alternative’. The few audience members who had managed […]
Film | Hitchcock
2/5 stars Alfred Hitchcock was known for many noticeable traits in his films; the use of trains, the involvement of birds, mistaken identity and suspense. The last of those characteristics is lacking in this film. […]
Film | Wreck-It Ralph
2/5 stars Over the years, videogame developers, like film studios, establish a certain pedigree. Nintendo’s Super Mario games are known for their endearing ingenuity and propensity to transcend audience brackets. Children enjoy them, adults enjoy […]
Film | Warm Bodies
4/5 stars Warm Bodies takes our pop culture fetishization of supernatural creatures to a place it has never gone before… zombies. Why not? It’s the natural progression from vampires and werewolves. But if the idea […]
A Closer Look At… Michael Haneke’s Amour
With the 85th Academy Awards to be hosted this Friday, the films of 2012 and ‘13 are to be honoured in momentous fashion and style in Los Angeles. Amongst those nominated to receive awards is […]
Film | Self-congratulation at the Oscars
Another year goes by and here we go again. Roll out the red carpet; it’s time for the pampered elite to pat themselves on the back once more. Well done, everyone! Especially you, Baffleck. That […]
Meet Executive Producer Don Hahn
In anticipation of the release of Frankenweenie, Rose Collard caught up with the executive producer Don Hahn, to ask him about how he came to working for Disney and what its like to work with […]
Does giving up things for Lent ever work?
It’s that time of year again, when the majority of us have indulged in pancakes and are now embarking on forty days free from alcohol, chocolate, post-Fruity takeaways, cigarettes and twitter amongst other things. Some […]
Teatime: tired or trendy?
Traditionally ‘Tea’ has been thought of as a stuffy or rather old-fashioned affair. A modern day tea party is rarely found beyond the compounds of little girls celebrating with their bears. My experience of […]