I’m fully aware that I am standing in a very great danger zone at the moment. If I keep going to see his movies, I may well become a Tom Cruise fan. He rocked as the Vampire Lestat. He was the perfect lead for Minority Report and the Mission Impossible [...]

There are different types of films: the ones you think you are going to like, and then they turn out to be insufferably boring or disappointing; the ones you love passionately from beginning to end, and the ones that happen to subtly tell two different stories, like Soderbergh’s Side Effects. Because [...]

OPEN CALL – ‘MEMORIES of the FUTURE’ – The Analogue meets Digital Pop-up Shop – Nottingham, UK – 15th -19th October 2013 Memories of the Future will be a pop-up shop, exploring the relationship between traditional analogue formats, & the digital revolution within the independent creative sector. This will take [...]

I may have a slight bias simply because, despite my twenty-six years of age, I still adore cartoons and animated movies.  When I heard Finding Nemo was coming out again in 3D at the cinema, I squealed with delight.  But…The Croods! What a delightful film! Though I struggled NOT to see [...]

What happens when you meet someone, and you fall in love with the situation instead of with that person? You begin an ill-fated marriage, that is what happens. I Give It A Year explores that decision -and what comes afterwards- in the most hilarious way possible. People will probably go [...]

Following my previous post surrounding the psychology of horror, entitled ‘The Horrific Psychology’. (If you haven’t read it yet – go now! What are you waiting for?) For years, directors have tried to captivate their audience with an essence of enthusiasm and an excess of emotional feed. Not many people [...]

Kathryn Bigelow, director of the Oscar winning The Hurt Locker, returns to the war on terror with this high-octane, true-story account of the hunt for Osama Bin Laden. Before the movie begins, a heading announces that this story is based on true events, from first hand accounts. From that point [...]

With festive rituals aside, the legion of palm trees sufficed. Boxing Day in Thailand offered idyllic re-quiescence for the Bennetts. But what starts as perfection quickly becomes unperfected, cataclysmic. A seemingly inoffensive breeze interlaced with sporadic laughter, shadows a queer murmur in the air – a murmur that becomes a [...]