Known for the likes of Kick Ass, X-men and Stardust, Matthew Vaughn is one of the big guys in the business and now, he's back with a new star studded production...
Birdman is the story of Riggan Thomson (Michael Keaton), a Hollywood actor who, in his prime, played a famous superhero character. Riggan is now struggling and...
Mike Leigh’s ‘not technically a biopic’ of the life of William Turner is the work of a true master and, like the work of Turner himself, the film Mr Turner find...
Sometimes a film soundtrack can leak out into your life. Pieces of music so grand, so hummable, that they have to be there when you clean, when you walk, and w...
Acclaimed director Pawel Pawlikowski returns with Ida: a film about identity; wherein history is revisited with understanding and modesty, exquisite photography...
Experimental art filmmakers Ben Rivers and Ben Russell team up to bring us A Spell To Ward Off The Darkness. An exercise in patience and stillness; it stars mus...
During our teenage years, we seem to be at our most susceptible – everything we see, hear and feel, can often seem amplified. The most insignificant of issues c...
Real stories about the real people at the bottom of the social ladder has always been the driving mantra behind Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne's films. Two Days, ...
2013’s Night Moves has opened in UK cinemas; Kelly Reichardt’s first bout of writing since her 1995 offbeat thriller River of Grass. But this time both her dir...
The story of a patriotic old man who embraces an estranged Hmong family and solves their problems with an intimidating gang
Hollywood legend Clint Eastwood r...
Robin Wright has been the go to actress when it comes to casting a seductive yet congenial female supporting role. She's been working diligently in the industry...
When explaining the brief outline of this film it's difficult to understand what actually might be so appealing to it. Saying that the basic outline is literall...
Noah, a short film that debuted at the Toronto International FIlm Festival, is a touching story about how analysing too much detail to small things in your digi...
Rush is the true story of the rivalry between formula one drivers James Hunt (Chris Hemsworth) and Niki Lauda (Daniel Bruhl). It chronicles their history, from ...
It wouldn’t be a summer at the box office without the mandatory fantasy franchise film now would it? The Harry Potter and Twilight franchises may be dead and bu...
Remember that time you watched Ocean's Eleven and you thought that film was great? Well, so did the scriptwriters of Now You See Me, because the caper genre is ...
It has been proved, over the past few years, that the best superhero films are those who focus more on the person instead of the world-saving alter ego.
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There is nothing worse than going to the cinema to watch a film with a preconceived idea, only because so many friends have told you beforehand their opinion.
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They had been saying it for months in the teaser posters and the trailers: it all ended with this film. After previews in a Harry Potter style of epicness, the ...
Overpowering. If a single word could describe this movie, that would be it. It has the script, the performances and the directing. There is nothing to miss in T...
We live in the era of Hollywood prequels: X-Men First Class, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, The Hobbit... And they all seem to be much better than sequels thes...
Every person has a different way of dealing with loss. And sometimes denying reality seems the easiest thing to do. Those issues are the main subject of Song fo...
Apparently, there is a moment in every talented thespian’s career when they have to make a rubbish film: that one that makes everyone think, “they could have sp...
I'm going to confess it: I loved this film. You can roll your eyes with disappointment now, because I don't care, I enjoyed every minute of A Good Day To Die Ha...
In the 1950s, Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim created a modern adaptation of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. It was set in New York, with natives and Pue...
Not so long ago, back in 2010, I saw this film that made me fall asleep in the cinema. It was called The American and it starred George Clooney. I never thought...
Strangely, it has taken me weeks to sit and start writing about Les Misérables. Maybe I was still digesting the movie, or maybe it was because every time I trie...
Twelve years ago, Baz Luhrmann created a musical that change everyone's conception of this genre. When Moulin Rouge was released, it soon met with unconditional...
It has been a three year wait for the sequel of this "super hero" film, and we will yet have to wait until July for its release. Until then, we can see the firs...
I have discovered that the key to enjoying any film, no matter how awful it might be, is to watch it with no expectations at all. In the end, you find out that ...