Film Reviews

Vikki Myerscough 5 February 2014

Saoirse Ronan is taking another stab at a young adult novel adaptation, this time in Meg Rosoff’s How I Live...

Andrew McArthur 4 February 2014

It is hard not to be prejudiced when seeing the cover art for a film like Dracula: The Dark Prince....

Ben Browne 3 February 2014

As you can imagine, I was drawn to this film by its title alone. As a fan of John Carpenter's...

Ben Browne 3 February 2014

Hellgate is not a good film, let's just get that out of the way. In fact, it's terrible. It's a...

Andrew McArthur 30 January 2014

After the poorly received (yet unabashedly fun) Battleship, Peter Berg launches his return to form with blistering testosterone-fuelled military...

Andrew McArthur 28 January 2014

Out of the Furnace is director Scott Cooper's first film since his award-winning 2009 feature Crazy Heart. Here Cooper has...

Andrew McArthur 28 January 2014

You know that awkward moment when a comedy is not particularly funny and you need to sit through watching several...

cleaver Patterson 24 January 2014

Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (2014) is, on paper at least, a film which shouldn't work, and certainly not as well...

Andrew McArthur 24 January 2014

August: Osage County has been described as Oscar bait on numerous occasions. After all, it has a distinguished cast of a certain age...

Ian Schultz 17 January 2014

Computer Chess is the latest film by the king of mumblecore, Andrew Bujalski, who made a splash in the indie...

Andrew McArthur 9 January 2014

Viewers who experienced Steve McQueen's Shame or Hunger will know that the director's films are never an easy nor pleasant...

Andrew McArthur 3 January 2014

Some cynics may question why four Oscar winning actors of a certain age, would see the need to appear in a...

Paul 29 December 2013

Although billed as the centrepiece of his “Trilogy of Loneliness” (bookended by La Strada and Nights of Cabiria), Federico Fellini’s...

Andrew McArthur 26 December 2013

The concept of Battle of the Damned is a great one that is likely to grab the attention of many...