Why, oh why is David Fincher slated for World War Z 2? I mean the obvious answer is money but let’s deep dive anyway. It’s one of the strangest pairings in a while. The first […]
Review: Their Finest – propaganda with heart?
Their Finest, directed by Lone Scherfig, director of An Education and The Riot Club, is a lot better than one might expect upon first glance. It follows Gemma Arteton’s screenwriter Catrin as she’s hired to […]
Breaking Bad: The Supercut – Can TV become film?
Breaking Bad was unequivocally one of the most popular television series ever. It’s antepenultimate episode Ozymandias currently stands at a glowing 10/10 on IMDb, a feat not even the most popular movie on that website […]
Review: A Cure for Wellness
After watching A Cure For Wellness, lot of people have picked up on how it pays tribute to a lot of early, low budget, high-camp b movies like Sam Fuller’s Shock Corridor. There have been […]
Review: 20th Century Women – full of infectious warmth
20th Century Women is an absolute joy. It is film with a genuine affection for its characters – it’s laugh out loud funny and heart-breaking. It’s pertinent to the time in which we live. I […]
Review: Jackie – a textured portrait
Jackie is no ordinary biopic. It shares very little with stories like The Imitation Game, The Theory of Everything, or Lincoln. This film achieves what many of those do not; it paints a textured portrait […]
Review: Assassin’s Creed – not as terrible as you think
First things first, it’s not terrible. What a 19% Rotten Tomatoes rating should tell you about Assassin’s Creed is that 1/5 of critics thought it was a good movie, which on the surface doesn’t sound […]
Golden Globes 2017: The round up
Oscar season finally kicks off in great fashion with maybe the most meaningless ceremony of them all! Meryl Streep inspired us all, Tom Hiddleston made an asshat of himself, and Spiderman kissed Deadpool, and all before […]
6 films for the winter if you still don’t feel christmassy
Christmas may be less than a week away, but sometimes that christmas spirit is hard to keep hold of, especially when you look out the window to never-ending drizzle rather than a flurry of snow. […]
LIFF30 Review: Train to Busan – a new addition to the zombie genre
The film follows a man taking his very alienated daughter on the titular train to Busan to see her mother on her birthday just when there’s a breakout of zombies. That’s pretty much all the […]
LIFF30 Review: Under the Shadow – A horror without the fear factor
It’s a shame Under the Shadow is not better. It is very good but I wanted it to be scarier. The film is actually the British entry for best foreign language film at the Oscars […]
LIFF30 Review: I Am Not A Serial Killer – YA fiction meets American Psycho
I Am Not a Serial Killer is so many things at once. Pitched somewhere between The Thing, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Fargo, and American Psycho, with a thematic hint of Blue Velvet. The idea of all this stuffed into […]