Film
Incoming: RBG
At the age of 84, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has developed a breathtaking legal legacy while becoming an unexpected pop culture icon. RBG will be out in cinemas from 4 January.
Blu-Ray Review: Alpha
As the saying goes, a dog is man’s best friend, but it wasn’t always that way. Whilst Kevin Kostner may have been dancing with Wolves in the 19th century, human beings have been hunted by wild dogs and wolves for millennia. At some point man and beast became friends. Or at the very least, they …
DVD Review: Searching
Whilst the rise of social media and mobile communications has had a huge impact on our daily lives, it has caused a whole host of problems for film-makers. Especially when they’re trying to make a contemporary crime thriller or horror. So much thought has to go into each scene. It’s hard to pull of a …
Film Review: One Cut of the Dead
It’s all too easy to be overly critical and forget how incredibly difficult it is to make a feature film. How much time and effort is invested by a whole host of people to make it happen. The venture itself is a mammoth task with so many risks, dependencies and critical success factors that it’s …
Blu-ray Review: The Rider
Whilst the Wild West might be a place lost in the dim and distant past, the notion of the cowboy still lingers in the American psyche. Whilst ‘Indians’ are no longer red and very much Native American, the relationship between a man and his horse still holds strong. There are still those who eke-out a …
Film Review: The 12th Man
Whilst we all know that World War II was fought between the Axis and Allies, the majority of the Western gaze tends to linger on events surrounding Germany, Britain, Italy, France, Japan, Russia and America. However, the arena of war stretched across several continents and involved almost one hundred different countries. Today, there’s a general …
Incoming: An Impossible Love
A chronicle of the unconditional love between a mother and her daughter, from 1958 to the present day, which is endangered by an unsteady and manipulative father. An Impossible Love is in cinemas from 4 January.
Incoming: Welcome to Marwen
Robert Zemeckis (Forrest Gump, Flight, Cast Away) directs Steve Carell in the moving true story of one broken man’s fight as he discovers how artistic imagination can restore the human spirit. Welcome to Marwen is out in cinemas from 1 January.
Incoming: The Favourite
Early 18th century. England is at war with the French. Nevertheless, duck racing and pineapple eating are thriving. A frail Queen Anne (Olivia Colman) occupies the throne and her close friend Lady Sarah (Rachel Weisz) governs the country in her stead while tending to Anne’s ill health and mercurial temper. When a new servant Abigail …
Incoming: Bumblebee
On the run in the year 1987, Bumblebee finds refuge in a junkyard in a small Californian beach town. Charlie (Hailee Steinfeld), on the cusp of turning 18 and trying to find her place in the world, discovers Bumblebee, battle-scarred and broken. When Charlie revives him, she quickly learns this is no ordinary, yellow VW …