Incoming: Wiener-Dog
From director Todd Solondz, Wiener-Dog is a dark, starkly funny story of a single dog and the many different people she touches over her short lifetime. Man’s best friend starts…
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Blu-Ray Review: The In-Laws
Modern cinema is littered with gross-out and offensive comedies. We’ve become studio-fed by Apatow, Rogen, Rudd, Mottola, Macfarlane and the like. And whilst it’s brilliant to see actresses finally being…
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In Coming: The Confession
From supporting the Bosnian Mujahideen to being imprisoned in Bagram and Guantanamo, from the rebel training camps in Syria to the prison cells of Belmarsh in Britain, Moazzam Begg has…
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Film Review: Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words
In the history of Hollywood there have perhaps only been a handful of actors who could walk into a room and command silence. Not only did Ingrid Bergman have that…
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Incoming: Bobby Sands: 66 Days
In the spring of 1981 Irish Republican Bobby Sands’ 66-day hunger strike brought the attention of the world to his cause.Drawing on an Irish Republican tradition of martyrdom, Sands’ emotive,…
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Film Review: Sid And Nancy
Punk was one of the most memorable and most distinctive musical movements on the Twentieth Century. Much more than merely a musical genre, it was, and still is, a way…
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DVD Review: The Hard Stop
With the recent spate of killings of young black men in America by the police and the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement, the atmosphere in America is beginning…
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Incoming: Sid and Nancy
1978. Sid is arrested from the Chelsea Hotel in Manhattan following Nancy’s sudden, tragic death. Dragged to a police station and questioned, he flashes back to how he first met…
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DVD Review: Eddie the Eagle
There’s something about the British and our love of the underdog. Whether it’s a non-league team playing one of the top dogs in the FA Cup or a plucky qualifier…
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DVD Review: Solaris
Space has been explored in just about every conceivable way through cinema, literature and television. Whilst action-oriented films usually dominate at the box office, it’s often more subtle psychological sci-fi…
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