Lonesome Jim is a little known indie gem by Steve Buscemi. It centres on perpetually depressed twenty-seven year old Jim (Casey Affleck) as returns to his small town home in Indiana after having failed as a Novelist in New York. What works well about Lonesome Jim is that Steve Buscemi […]

The trailer for ‘You’re Next’ made this film look like an original and creative slasher film. If not a little inspired by the 2008 film ‘The Strangers’. The idea of your home being invaded by menacing individuals trying to cut you open with no apparent motive is pretty horrifying. One […]

There aren’t many films where the blooper-reel is funnier than the final product. ‘We’re the Millers’ directed by Rawson Marshall Thurber, of ‘Dodgeball’ fame, is a swing and a miss comedy that tries to blend all the raunchiness of ‘The Hangover’ with traditional family sitcom style comedy. Low level marijuana […]

It’s been a bit of a rocky start for comic book movies this year. ‘Man of Steel’ was met with a lukewarm reception from fans and critics alike. ‘Origin’ movies are the in-thing with comic book films at the moment. This was mainly spurred on by Christopher Nolan’s successful Batman […]

‘Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa’ is the kind of film that will have you leaving the cinema quoting it for hours afterwards. It is not just funny; it is insanely funny. ‘Alpha Papa’ has been worked on ever since being green-lit in 2004, and it’s delivery in 2013 sure does, well, […]

It’s the little film that could. ‘The Conjuring’, with its meagre twenty-million dollar budget has beaten out every other blockbuster film in its path, amassing a whopping eighty-four million dollars so far. But why is it that a film whose story has been told time and time again is managing […]