Film Review: INSURGENT: We’re not in Candour anymore!
Veronica Roth, the author of the Divergent series, imagines a future society thats just like high school. There are five distinct …
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Film Review: THE TALE OF THE PRINCESS KAGUYA: going to the palace but not gonna get married
The font of animation wonderment that is Studio Ghibli is more than just director Hayao Miyazaki (now retired) and his son Goro. S…
Film Review: ELLE L’ADORE: ... and she closed herself up like a fan
In the opening scene of the French police procedural, Elle LAdore, divorced mother of two, Muriel Bayen (Sandrine Kiberlain) demon…
Film Review: RUN ALL NIGHT: A particular set of thrills
Liam Neeson gives two performances in the pacy New York-set thriller Run All Night. For the first twenty minutes, his character, f…
Film Review: X + Y: Greater than the sum of its parts
Cinema can be a place for mathematical problems. If I have five mint imperials and there are six people in the cinema using their …
Film Review: CHAPPIE: programmed to fail but not without pleasure
Humanitys last hope isnt human, says the advertising. That doesnt even begin to describe Neill Blomkamps third feature, Chappie, w…
Film Review: FOCUS – what’s it trying to pull?
In caper thrillers, you trust no one. There are con men and con women. Occasionally, there are condoms. A con man doesnt admit a c…
Film Review: McFARLAND, USA – Running with Mexican-Americans
Unlikely to get a release in the UK, but liable to go down a storm stateside is McFarland, USA, the latest sports-themed film to f…
Film Review: BIG HERO 6 – on a scale of one to ten, how enjoyable is this Disney cartoon?
The animated family film Big Hero 6 is a reminder that heroes dont always have to beat people up to prove their valour they can b…
Film Review: STILL LIFE: funeral arranger film doesn’t deserve a box office burial
Still Life, the second directorial effort of former producer Uberto Pasolini (The Full Monty) is a study of a London council emplo…
