All we see at the minute is doom and gloom in the news. Warranted fear and anxiety surrounding COVID-19 is reaching crisis point and it seems most of our days are going to be spent indoors. We previously brought you a list of some films to avoid whilst in isolation, but I thought it might […]Read More
Parasite, Director Bong Joon-Ho’s masterful satirical rumination on class, was undoubtedly the night’s most deserved winner, and in a rare case of the Academy being all very finger on the pulse, it turned out to be the night’s biggest winner. The film won four of the six awards it was nominated for and went home […]Read More
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood Once Upon a Time in Hollywood has everything you would expect from a Quentin Tarantino film: fetishistic depictions of violence, snappy (pop-culture laden) dialogue, a touch of sadism and the masterful merging of the high and the low that Tarantino has built his exhilarating, frequently boundary-pushing career around. Throw […]Read More
Following the release of a questionable poster on Monday (see featured image), the hype for Quentin Tarantino’s 9th feature film, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, his first since 2015’s The Hateful Eight, has dominated social media and continued to grow. With a trailer following yesterday, it’s very easy to see why this could yet be one […]Read More
Having watched the trailer for this new Netflix original some time ago, I was incredibly excited to watch the entire thing, going on the initial clips I had seen, but it turns out it wasn’t at all what I was expecting, due entirely to the misleading promise of the trailer that looked to be both […]Read More
“If we’re right, people lose homes. People lose jobs. People lose retirement savings, people lose pensions.” – Ben Rickert Developed from the fantastic mind of director Adam McKay (Stepbrothers, Anchorman) and adapted from the pages of author Michael Lewis’s true to life book The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine; The Big Short brings to the silver screen the story […]Read More
“It will end soon. But First, a lot more people gotta die.” Fury is a day in the life film of a World War II tank crew during the final few months of the war. The film is directed by David Ayer (End of Watch) and stars a host of world class actors including Brad Pitt […]Read More
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