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Film Review: Initiation

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Ethan Hawke is an actor who has flirted with success and stardom but never really managed to become an ‘A’ lister. He’s been a highly visible actor since the 1990s, with roles in the likes of Reality Bites, Gattaca, Before Sunrise and Alive. He looked destined for the big time but it never really happened. …

Whilst Olivia Wilde has made over thirty films, she’s an actor whose career has never really taken off. There have been some good roles in films and on television but she’s probably best known for starring in uninspiring Hollywood blockbusters Cowboys & Aliens and TRON: Legacy. If you look at her career to date, it’s …

There’s an annoying tendency for Hollywood disaster movies to increasingly push the limits of realism and believability. The guiding principle is that bigger is better and the more devastation and destruction the more excitement there will be. Whether you agree with this or not is I guess a matter of opinion, but for me, at …

Located at the northernmost point of Earth, the Arctic region is a desolate and unforgiving place. Spanning a number of countries, the climate is brutally cold and the landscape is a mix of permafrost, arctic tundra, snow, ice and frigid ocean. If you get stranded there, you’re liable to die from exposure. Unless you’re eaten …

Wars provide fertile backgrounds for genre cinema given the natural horror generated by the brutalities and atrocities of conflict. World War I was particularly arduous, with thousands upon thousands of men dying just to gain a few inches of ground. If the bullets didn’t kill you the disease or inhospitable conditions would. Trench warfare was …

Genghis Khan was the first Great Khan of the Mongol Empire. He united the largely nomadic tribes of Mongolia in the early 13th century to create what would eventually become, under his successors, the largest contiguous empire in history. Its fragmentation fifty years later led to the rise of the Golden Horde who would go …

Richard Nixon launched America’s ‘war on drugs’ policy in 1971. It was a federal government led initiative which combined prohibition, military aid and intervention with the aim of eradicating the illegal drugs trade within the USA. After decades of failures, States looked at different ways to tackle the problem. In 1996, California became the first …

When it comes to Asian cinema, Japan often overshadows its Easterly neighbours. However, South Korea has consistently proved to be more than worthy celluloid adversaries. Whether that’s action (The Villainess, Snowpiercer, The Man from Nowhere, I Saw the Devil), horror (Train to Busan, The Wailing, The Host, Thirst) or mystery/thriller (Oldboy, Mother, Memories of Murder, …

When major wars end and countries want to move on, it’s natural to try and draw a line over events of the past. Forget those atrocities and crimes committed previously and try and come together as a nation in order to move forward. However, this can often just act as a sticking plaster and slowly …

The success of Alex Garland’s Annihilation and Ex-Machina demonstrate how much of an appetite genre fans have for intelligent science-fiction filmmaking. The likes of Moon, Under the Skin, Primer and Predestination show that budget doesn’t have to be an obstacle to success. We no longer live in an age where the lack of a wide …