Incoming: FÉLICITÉ
Felicity, free and proud, is a singer in the evenings in a bar in Kinshasa. Her life changes when her 14-year-old son is the victim of a motorcycle accident. To save him, she begins a frantic race through the streets of an electric Kinshasa, a world of music and dreams. FÉLICITÉ is out in cinemas …
Blu-Ray Review: The Farthest
In the 1960s and 1970s, Americans increasingly looked to the stars. Whilst the Space Race had already been won, our fascination with our universe and beyond was only just beginning. In an attempt to increase our understanding of our solar system, NASA launched the Voyager mission in 1977. Voyager 1’s objective included a flyby Jupiter, …
Incoming: Professor Marston & the Wonder Women
In a superhero origin tale unlike any other, Professor Marston & the Wonder Women is the incredible true story of what inspired Harvard psychologist Dr. William Moulton Marston to create the iconic Wonder Woman character in the 1940’s. While Marston’s feminist superhero was criticized by censors for her ‘sexual perversity’, he was keeping a secret …
Film Review – Ferrari: Race to Immortality
Formula 1 today is a sport of cutting edge science, drivers who are athletes at the peak of fitness and tracks which place safety well above entertainment value. However, this hasn’t always been the case. Indeed, until the tragic death of Aryton Senna, F1 was not a sport for the faint of heart. If you …
Incoming: Murder on the Orient Express
What starts out as a lavish train ride through Europe quickly unfolds into one of the most stylish, suspenseful and thrilling mysteries ever told. From the novel by best-selling author Agatha Christie, “Murder on the Orient Express” tells the tale of thirteen strangers stranded on a train, where everyone’s a suspect. One man must race …
Blu-Ray Review: The Tiger: An Old Hunter’s Tale
There’s something rather poetic about the battle of wills between man and beast. The hunter and the hunted. The predator and the prey. In literature, there are few more poetically powerful tales than Captain Ahab versus Moby Dick. On the big screen, Liam Neeson fighting a wolf with his bare hand in Grey or Brody, …
Blu-Ray Review: Black Christmas
Whilst it’s true that John Carpenter’s Halloween was the first film to introduce the slasher genre to a mainstream audience, it was by no means the first of its kind. That distinction probably goes to Mario Bava for either Blood and Black Lace or A Bay of Blood, but if truth be told it was …
Film Review: Thelma
Witchcraft is not merely a concept that began in Salem in the late 17th century. The first mention of it comes in the Old Testament, Indeed, the church played a pivotal role in bringing it into popular culture. The term ‘witch’ being used as a way of disparaging those women who don’t conform or who …
Film Review: 78/52
There are few, if any, more iconic scenes in the history of cinema than the shower scene in Psycho. Then again, Alfred Hitchcock is arguably the greatest creator in the history of motion picture. He was a master of suspense, but a genius at knowing how to immerse audiences into his rich narratives. It took …
Incoming: The Killing of a Sacred Deer
Dr. Steven Murphy (Colin Farrell) is a renowned cardiovascular surgeon presiding over a spotless household with his ophthalmologist wife Anna (Nicole Kidman) and their two exemplary children, 12-year-old Bob (Sunny Suljian) and 14-year-old Kim (Raffey Cassidy). Lurking at the margins of his idyllic suburban existence is Martin (Barry Keoghan), a fatherless teen who Steven has …