The superhero movie genre is arguably becoming saturated, but this latest Marvel offering offers something new… In 2016 alone, Marvel and DC released a total of six superhero films, adding to Marvel’s already massive cinematic […]
Review – Moonlight – a bildungsroman in three chapters
After fending off La La Land to win the Academy Award, Moonlight is now the most talked-about movie on our screens. Emily McDermott offers her opinion on a truly unique film. Barry Jenkins’ Moonlight offers, […]
Review: John Wick 2 – upping the stakes
Action movies have a bad reputation. They’re known more for mindless spectacle than for being shining examples of high cinema, a genre where substance is often sacrificed for style. John Wick: Chapter 2 is a […]
Review: Hidden Figures – Plenty of uplift to take off
Hidden figures is the untold story of Katherine G. Johnson (Taraji P. Henson), Dorothy Vaughan (Octavia Spencer) and Mary Jackson (Janelle Monae) – extremely talented African-American women working for NASA that served as the brains […]
How ‘My Own Private Idaho’ endures as a classic
Thanks to a retrospective showcasing by The Hyde Park Picture House focussing on the film’s philosophy regarding love, I was offered the opportunity to see My Own Private Idaho for the first time in a […]
Donals Glover: everything the light touches is his kingdom
Actor, rapper, comedian, writer: Donald Glover is a man of many talents. And impersonating a small furry animal is now one of them as Glover is set to voice Simba in the new live-action remake […]
50 Shades of… actually this is dreadful
Superficial. Unerotic. Cringe-worthy. The sequel to 50 Shades of Grey continues the affair between girl-next-door Anastasia Steele and chiselled-dominator-billionaire Christian Grey, and is about as sexy as a dead fish. But how can that be? […]
Why Moonlight needed to win Best Picture
When Jordan Horowitz declared that Moonlight had in fact won ‘Best Picture’ instead of La La Land, as first announced, he used the phrase: ‘This is not a joke.’ But it is. Hollywood and its […]
What the BAFTAs mean for the Oscars (and where you can watch them)
The BAFTAs opened with a bang at the Royal Albert Hall on Sunday night with a heart-in-mouth performance from Cirque du Soleil and twelve-time host Stephen Fry, likewise, did not disappoint. Unsurprisingly, many British filmmakers […]
Alice Lowe’s cult comedy horror Prevenge is here to eat your prejudices
The conceit of writer/director Alice Lowe’s debut feature Prevenge is a darkly comic slasher-flick with a twist, not only in the film’s perspective being that of the slasher, but that this slasher is a heavily […]
Fifty Shades of….. actually this isn’t too bad?
Fifty Shades Darker is a viciously misogynistic and sadistic empty film that degrades women. Well… that’s what I thought I was going to say before I watched the film. Being proven wrong is sometimes a […]
Annie Hall: 40 years of nervous romance
It’s coming up to the 40th anniversary of Woody Allen’s seminal piece of cinema Annie Hall. Often dubbed ‘the nervous romance’, it frequently blurs genre boundaries and is considered by most Allen’s best work. Harry […]