Film Review – The Rover (2014)
From its publicity materials, The Rover may look like a gun-toting action-thriller - but anyone familiar with its director David...
Film Reviews
Film Review – The Expendables 3 (2014)
As a proud fan of The Expendables series and the stars that headline it, I was hugely excited for the...
Film Review – Welcome To New York (2014)
Gerard Depardieu lends his not-inconsiderable weight to Abel Ferrara’s Welcome to New York, a controversial, fictionalised account of Dominique Strauss-Kahn’s...
Film Review – God’s Pocket (2014)
Based on the book by Peter Dexter of the same name, God’s Pocket centres around a family based in...
Film Review – The Nut Job (2014)
The production of a successful feature length cartoon is a hard nut to crack. For every animated hit, a dozen...
Guardians Of The Galaxy Film Review
Since Buster Crabbe saved the universe in Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars (1938), the idea of beings - both...
Film Review – The Purge: Anarchy (2014)
The general consensus with The Purge back in 2013 was that social concept at the film's core (citizens could take...
Blu-Ray Review – Rapture (1965)
Until now, John Guillermin’s coming-of-age story Rapture has perhaps been side-lined amidst his bigger budget productions. Films like The Towering...
DVD Review – A Long Way Down (2014)
A Long Way Down is based on the book by Nick Hornby, directed by Pascal Chaumeil and starring the likes of...
DVD Review – Need For Speed (2014)
So, Need for Speed didn’t exactly bomb, but certainly underperformed when it was released earlier this year. People have put...
Blu-ray Review – The Lego Movie (2014)
The Lego Movie opened early this year to rave reviews and throngs of people insisting that everything about it is...
DVD Review – Vampire Academy (2013)
Now I’m such a sucker (no pun intended) for any mystical school shenanigans, I was obsessed with The Worst Witch...
Blu-ray Review – Pulp: a Film About Life, Death & Supermarkets (2014)
Pulp is partly a concert film of the band’s possible last ever UK gig in their hometown of Sheffield, but...
Blu-ray Review – Harold And Maude (1971)
Harold and Maude remains one of the phenomenal films to come out of the New Hollywood of the 1970s. It...