Category: Reviews

  • Blade Runner: The Final Cut – Review

    Another chance to see one of the greatest films of all time on the big screen. If you’ve already seen it, you need little more motivation than that, and if you haven’t, you should have booked your ticket weeks ago… Read More >

  • The Signal – Review

    “The Signal has not quite shown the signs of improvement that we’d expected, being a film that while certainly creative, hasn’t quite got the execution to match”… Read More >

  • Fast & Furious 7 – Review

    “a strikingly intimate and profound offering from a franchise otherwise concerned with fast cars, explosions and women wearing barely any clothes”… Read More >

  • The Voices – Review

    “The Voices is a truly accomplished piece that proves that Satrapi’s unique style is easily translatable into the English language”… Read More >

  • White Bird in a Blizzard – Review

    With her impressive performance in Insurgent, not to mention her empathetic turn in The Fault in our Stars – yet again Shailene Woodley is the best thing about an underwhelming movie, starring in Gregg Araki’s overtly melodramatic feature White Bird in a Blizzard. The young, talented actress manages to find a strand of subtlety in… Read More >

  • Insurgent – Review

    “a tedious formula transpires whereby our protagonists are staring death in the face, only for somebody, or something to miraculously save the day. Honestly, they get out of more sticky situations than James Bond.” Read More >

  • Run All Night – Review

    The relief felt when discovering that this most generic-looking Liam Neeson action flick is the least generic-feeling of his recent output, is palpable. Run All Night proves that there is still plenty of fight left in the old dog yet. Read More >

  • Catch Me Daddy – Review

    “This disquieting picture is unrelenting from the word go, with little respite for the viewer, who is really put through the paces.” Read More >

  • A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night – Review

    Of late, vampire flicks have seen somewhat of a resurgence in quality. What We Do in the Shadows peeked into the lives of vampiric housemates with This is Spinal Tap! results; Only Lovers Left Alive used the creatures’ immortality as a thinking cap to ponder the meaning of existence; bloodsuckers converged on a sleepy British… Read More >

  • The Boy Next Door – Review

    “We’ve been recently reminiscing about Jennifer Lopez with the Out of Sight-lite Focus currently on release. Surely the star is due for a resurgence and could The Boy Next Door be her triumphant return to those glory days? In a word, no.” Read More >