Blu-ray Review – Calvary (2014)
Facing the very real prospect of his own, imminent mortality, Brendan Gleeson’s troubled priest carries the weight of the world...
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Film Review – Jersey Boys (2014)
Clint Eastwood finds himself between a rock and hard place, or more accurately between Goodfellas and That Thing You Do,...
Film Review – Oculus (2013)
Imagine, if you will, a cross between The Amityville Horror and that haunted mirror segment from Dead of Night. If...
Film Review – A Million Ways To Die In The West (2014)
The parting shot of Mel Brooks’ Blazing Saddles, a distant Cleavon Little and Gene Wilder being driven off into the...
Film Review – Cheap Thrills
Debutant E. L. Katz turned a few heads at last year’s SXSW festival with this raucously unpleasant little creation. It...
Film Review – Pioneer (2013)
Erik Skjoldbjærg’s thriller plumbs some pretty murky depths to tell its tale of espionage in the Norwegian oil industry. Pioneer...
Film Review – Rio 2 (2014)
Call me a stony-hearted cynic, an elitist buffoon detached from the interests of the modern eight year-old - if you...
Film Review – Muppets Most Wanted
Writers James Bobin and Nicholas Stoller can’t be blamed for the unfortunate timing of their follow-up to 2011’s The Muppets,...
Cinema Review – As The Palaces Burn
Lamb of God frontman Randy Blythe’s observation that his music has kept him largely on the straight and narrow and,...
Review – The Book Thief
Brian Percival’s adaptation of Markus Zusak’s esteemed novel The Book Thief  looks like it should be a classic piece of...
Review – The Hobbit: The Desolation Of Smaug
Last time out I found my ramble through Middle Earth a bit of a drag. Peter Jackson’s decision to extend...
Review – The Family
What on earth Robert De Niro was thinking when he thumbed through the script for this Luc Besson-helmed miasma, I...
Review – The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
Despite the fact that the opening salvo of The Hunger Games series plucked a downtrodden pauper from a life of...
Film Review – The Counsellor
It was about ten minutes into Ridley Scott’s latest offering, the Cormac McCarthy scripted, The Counsellor, when I noticed Javier...