For all it's whip-crack quotable dialogue, and raging masculinity, at it's heart, "Glengarry Glen Ross" is a story of blue-collar hope.Read More
Released in 1988, the manga adaptation from creator Katsuhiro Otomo’s Akira has remained one of the many spearheads in anime, reaching critical acclaim and gained a cult following, many of which, who are critics and fans, consider Akira to be Otomo’s magnum opus. Still ravishing in its aesthetic importance, influence and impact in modern anime, […]Read More
WARNING: Please be aware if you have not seen the film that a few spoilers lie ahead. After a much-anticipated arrival in the early months of 2014, Wes Anderson’s latest blockbuster, The Grand Budapest Hotel, certainly did not disappoint. Whilst exhibiting an array of famous faces such as Owen Wilson, Jude Law and Bill Murray, […]Read More
Blue is the Warmest Colour caused a storm of reaction upon its debut at the Cannes Film Festival in 2013, and it’s not hard to see why: the French romantic drama that follows a teenager named Adèle (Adèle Exarchopoulos) exploring her sexuality through a fiery relationship with a blue-haired art student named Emma (Léa Seydoux) has been […]Read More
So, Age of Ultron has been out for a while now. I think it’s about time we talk in depth about it, the good, the bad and the green in between (spoilers). Now I’ve had the chance to see AoU (Age of Ultron) about 5/6 times. At first the hype cast a shadow over the […]Read More
Mad Max Fury Road is as artistic as it is crazy, it’s been hailed as the best action film of the decade and one of the best action films ever made. But Fury Road has also been in the spotlight for it’s overwhelming feminist message while being criticised for it’s lack of Tom Hardy and […]Read More
Stanley Kubrick is a director renowned for his ambiguity and subtlety, and this is demonstrated none so much as in his 1980 adaptation of Stephen King’s The Shining. The film follows the Torrance family as they move into the Overlook Hotel for the winter as caretakers; Jack, the family patriarch (Jack Nicholson), is also in the process of a […]Read More
Upon its release, Nicolas Wending Refn’s Only God Forgives was met with polarising reviews from critics, many of whom denounced it for focusing on style rather than substance. What they failed to realise is that the substance is there – you just have to read the style in order to understand it properly. Only God Forgives tells its story through imagery […]Read More
This is the first in a new feature, where other writers and I can go in depth, explore and interpret films that not many people may understand. The first film I have chosen to do is Enemy, Enemy is one of my favourite films of 2014 and definitely I think one of the most underrated. But […]Read More
