Joyeux Noel: A Beautiful Christmas Movie Moment
There are not many Christmas movies that I haven’t seen. I have been an avid fan of films of the…
Author: Vhairi Slaven
Writer and film geek with as much love for the classics as the films that turn everything on its head.
Girls On Film And Why I Want To Be The Hero
Fired up by the deeply moving Suffragette and the recent press about sexism in Hollywood, I have been thinking about…
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Suffragette: A Story That Still Needs Told
For fifty years, women of all classes in the United Kingdom protested to parliament for the right for women to…
New releases for October
Here are some of the films you must watch in October… and a few of the other releases. Suffragette Carey…
Straight Outta Compton
In the late 1980s, Eazy-E, Ice Cube, Dr. Dre, DJ Yella, MC Ren and the D.O.C. got together to form the…
Southpaw: It won’t knock you out, but it will pull you in
The boxing movie has always been a genre that I have enjoyed. Few other genres explore masculinity and vulnerability in…
Magic Mike XXL: Not enough magic
Magic Mike was a huge success. It appealed to a variety of audiences. It entertained and provoked thought in equal measure. …
Magic Mike: Not Just Channing Tatum with his top off
Magic Mike is a movie that divides opinion. On the surface it is a movie about adult entertainers who get…
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
Twelve years after the brilliant Terminator 2: Judgement Day, Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines was released in 2003. It takes…
Loch Ness Film Festival 2015
The sexy bastards at Moviescramble have been asked to judge the self-professed grass roots Loch Ness Film Festival 2015. …