Needless to say, spoiler alert ahead for all those who have yet to see the film. Since seeing the first of the trailers for Maleficent a few months ago, I’ve been beyond excited to see the film. Strange, considering the fact that I found the original Sleeping Beauty film to […]

When you look back at it, Roland Emmerich’s Godzilla was actually pretty bad. There was no discernible plot and it was content to just be a hollow-point action creature-feature. Luckily, Gareth Edwards has done well to make sure the western reboot of the series has matured in the last 16 […]

Hammer Films rarely produce a horror film that isn’t that scary. The Quiet Ones is the execption to their rule. In a way, however, Hammer Films does succeed in making an okay-ish film, despite its inherent lack of truly ‘jumpy’ moments. Sporting the ‘based on a true story’ tagline that […]

I know, I know, you were expecting a GUY to write this review, weren’t you? 300: Rise Of An Empire had big shoes to film. Its older brother 300, within months of its release, was seen as both a mainstream and a cult classic. Beautifully, poetically shot with some notable […]

The divisive film of 2014 may have just been released. (We are only three months in after all). Jonathan Glazer’s third feature length film, after the Oscar nominated Sexy Beast in 2000 and Birth four years later, Under The Skin is adapted from the Michael Faber novel of the same name published 14 years ago and […]

I have not seen many Wes Anderson films, I will admit. But whilst you load up your ammunition of derisive looks and low estimations of my cinema palate’s worth, allow me to offer that this enabled me to watch his latest offering The Grand Budapest Hotel without any expectation. And love […]

True Detective is without doubt the hottest series on TV right now, and it will certainly make for some interesting water-cooler conversations for at least a couple more weeks. The story initially seems formulaic. Two cops -troubled Rust Cohle, played by Matthew McConaughey and typical cop Marty Hart, played by […]

Based on the true story and book of the same name, 12 Years a Slave follows Solomon Northup, a free man from New York who is kidnapped and sold into slavery. What follows is twelve hellish years where Solomon experiences violence on an unthinkable scale, when all he wants is […]