Film Review – Inside Out (2015)
I’ll admit to being somewhat apprehensive approaching Pixar’s latest film, Inside Out. Depicting a team of inner-brain technicians responsible for...
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Theatre Review – Orson’s Shadow
The centenary of Orson Welles’s birth has, rather unsurprisingly, been a busy year with numerous events celebrating the life and...
Film Review – Ant Man (2015)
Despite the years of pre-production nonsense that stalled its making, you still get the impression that missing-in-action director/screenwriter Edgar Wright...
Film Review – Terminator Genisys (2015)
A couple of flagging sequels have pretty much robbed the Terminator series of its status as a superior sci-fi series...
Blu-ray Review – It Follows (2015)
David Robert Mitchell’s psychological, sexually charged horror It Follows lands on Blu-Ray and DVD this week and is more than...
Film Review – Jurassic World (2015)
In June 1993 my Dad took me to the, as was then, Warner Village cinema in Preston to see Jurassic...
Film Review – San Andreas (2015)
I do like Dwayne Johnson, I really do. The man was layin’ the smackdown and kickin’ candy asses left right...
Film Review – Tomorrowland (2015)
Disney hit upon something of a golden goose in 2003 when they released Pirates of Caribbean: Curse of the Black...
DVD Review -The Sleeping Room (2014)
A fine sense of place runs through John Shackleton’s directorial debut The Sleeping Room, a haunted house tale set in...
Film Review – The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water (2015)
It’s a curious thing that a cartoon detailing the mostly insignificant and often baffling adventures of a cheerful, rectangular sea...
Film Review – Jupiter Ascending (2015)
If nothing else, you’ve got to admire the Wachowskis’ sense of imagination. A visually striking film, Jupiter Ascending is certainly...
Film Review – Shaun The Sheep The Movie (2015)
Shaun The Sheep owes a debt to his Aardman predecessors Morph and Gromit, claymation trailblazers who elicited laughs from their audiences...
Film Review – Big Hero 6 (2015)
Resolutely refusing to change its name, riskily provoking cries of displeasure from simpletons who “haven’t seen the first five films”,...
Film Review – Inherent Vice (2015)
Few filmmakers have Paul Thomas Anderson’s ability to excite Pseuds Corner-bothering adulation from moviegoers and commentators with the degree of...