To be fair, I should have known, really, with the fact that the main thing Movie 43 was screaming was how many known names and faces were in it, instead of anything whatsoever to do with the plot, characters and theme – that this movie was going to suck. And […]

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 […]

Blazing Saddles with violence, no other way to put it. If you enjoyed Blazing Saddles, you will go mad for this movie. Quentin Tarantino’s most entertaining film since Pulp Fiction. This has everything from jokes (making it brilliantly funny, I may add) violence and lots of it, guts flying all […]

When an escaped fugitive is speeding towards the Mexican border in a stolen supercar, a small army clearing his path and no federal agents close enough to help, there’s only one man that can stop him. Arnold Schwarzenegger. That’s right, Arnie has returned to Hollywood. He’s gotten the politics out […]

Whilst it something of a cliche for reviewers to brand any new release from the enfant terrible of cinema, Quentin Tarantino, as signalling a ‘return to form’ for the director; it is so difficult to separate such a critical conceit from Django Unchained.

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 […]

Before I begin, this article is purely subjective. I understand that the characters I use as examples have a wide fan base, but this is purely a personal stance. The point I am trying to convey is that the films have saved Marvel by bringing it into the cinema and […]

Although The Hunt is set during the Christmas period in an idyllic Danish village, where men swim in frozen lakes before going off to hunt, only to finish it off with a drinking binge and good-natured machismo, you wouldn’t be advised to pack up all your belongings and join this […]