Film Reviews

Andrew McArthur 27 January 2015

A perfect accompaniment to the cold Park City nights here at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival is the reflective, and...

chris Banks 27 January 2015

Matthew Vaughn looks to recreate the obnoxiously impertinent spirit of Kick Ass with Kingsman: The Secret Service, another Jane Goodman-penned...

Andrew McArthur 26 January 2015

Filmmaker John Maclean's debut feature film, Slow West, sees him team up with Michael Fassbender and Kodi Smit-McPhee for a...

Andrew McArthur 26 January 2015

The first of two James Franco Sundance debuts this year is the Gus Van Sant executive-produced I Am Michael. Based...

Andrew McArthur 26 January 2015

The newest graduate from the school of mumblecore horror is David Robert Mitchell's It Follows which blends the low-key drama...

Andrew McArthur 25 January 2015

John Ridley writes and directs this ambitious, stylistically-loose biopic of Jimi Hendrix's London years. In sixties New York, Linda Keith...

Andrew McArthur 25 January 2015

After the truly unsettling Compliance, director Craig Zobel turns his sights to the post-apocalyptic film. Avoiding the clichéd tropes that...

Andrew McArthur 24 January 2015

Sundance favourite The Witch takes us back to the days of classic earthy-folk horrors like Witchfinder General and The Wicker...

Andrew McArthur 24 January 2015

The troubled life of complex jazz chanteuse Nina Simone is given an immersive exploration in documentary, What Happened, Miss Simone?...

Ben Browne 19 January 2015

The cold, hard fact that after Mockingjay Part 2 later this year there will be no more Philip Seymour Hoffman...

Andrew McArthur 19 January 2015

With most of the talk this week being centred on notable omissions from the 2015 Academy Award Nominations, nothing has...

Andrew McArthur 19 January 2015

1974 James Caan crime-drama, The Gambler, is given an unexpected update from writer William Monahan (The Departed) and director Rupert...

chris Banks 14 January 2015

Notching up 160 confirmed kills during the Iraq War, US Navy SEAL sniper, Chris Kyle became something of a celebrity....

Andrew McArthur 12 January 2015

When looking at the careers of Hollywood icons it is always interesting to see how their work transitions over time....