Category: Features

  • Nick Picks | Why The Revenant May Not Be a Lock For Best Picture

    The Revenant may still be the obvious front-runner, but don’t count out some of the other nominees just yet. Read More >

  • The Revenant – Director of Photography Featurette

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    Featurette looking at The Revenant‘s Director of Photography, Emmanuel Lubezki. Read More >

  • Tobias Lindholm’s A War, and Why the Danes are so Great

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    Perhaps aside from France, you could argue that the second nation producing the most consistent stream of remarkable cinematic offerings in Europe is Denmark. This week marks the release of another fine film to come out of this great nation: the Academy Award nominated Best Foreign Language Film, political drama, A War. Read More >

  • Creed and the Return of Rocky – and why that’s no bad thing

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    If you like boxing, you’ll love this movie, and if you like movies, you’ll love this movie. Read More >

  • The Finest Hours – Featurette

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    A heroic action-thriller, The Finest Hours is the remarkable true story of the greatest small boat rescue in Coast Guard history. Read More >

  • Is Joy David O. Russell’s Best Film Yet?

    Films are a fickle old thing. Not to deem critical opinion redundant, of course, but movies are so subjective, dependant on the tastes and mood the reviewer is in. But it’s part of what makes this all so entertaining, the fact you can leave the cinema with your partner, and both have wildly different views… Read More >

  • Is Fifty Shades of Grey So Bad It’s Good?

    At nearly the end of 2015, Fifty Shades of Grey is still the closest mainstream audiences have gotten to a “so bad it’s good” picture… Read More >

  • Where is The Leftovers headed now?

    *Spoiler warning, do not read if you haven’t watched Season 2: Episode 7 – “A Most Powerful Adversary.”* It’s been a hard road for Kevin Garvey; the dark, possibly psychotic main character of HBO’s The Leftovers. In last week’s episode, “A Most Powerful Adversary”, Kevin (Justin Theroux) began the day handcuffed to his bed. A… Read More >

  • Steve Jobs… Why Don’t We Care?

    But why are the public not flocking to the cinemas to indulge in this production? Because, and quite simply, we generally aren’t fussed about this particular story. Read More >

  • By the Sea Featurette

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    Written, directed and produced by Academy Award winner Angelina Jolie, By the Sea serves as her directorial follow-up to Universal Pictures’ epic Unbroken. Read More >