Suburra
There are few stereotypes about Italian culture that are readily relied on in cinema, satire and the news. The first, is that the country is home to the Mafia (and all Italians are in the Mob) and th...
Category Archives: 2015
Mad Max: Fury Road – Black And Chrome Edition
When George Miller announced his desire to release a black and white version of Mad Max: Fury Road several months after the release of his apocalyptic masterpiece, there were no groans or accusations...
John Wick
Many people will tell you that Mad Max: Fury Road is the best action film of the 21st Century so far. It certainly has it’s moments, and Tom Hardy’s range of grunting is very impressive, but for me t...
Victor Frankenstein
There is something about the story of Frankenstein’s monster that really appeals to film makers. It has been a tale that has been told time and time again. In the last two years, there has been...
Spring
Spring, the second feature length film from directors Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead is a little oddity. It begins with life leaving the earth, seemingly in an exhalation, as Evan (Lou Taylor Pucci...
The Brand New Testament
One of the age-old questions asked is “if there is a God, why does he let bad things happen?” Director Jaco Van Dermal has his own answer for that in The Brand New Testament and it’...
Land of Mine
The horrors of World War II didn’t end with Germany’s surrender. For all that has been documented of this time there are many stories relatively unknown, including a horrifying practice b...
45 Years
45 Years has reinvigorated the debate of what the BAFTA awards are actually for. In many best of 2015 polls, the film was highly placed and regarded, by some margin, as the best British film of the y...
John’s Top Ten Of 2015
2015 was a year of contrasting fortunes for movies. On one hand it was spectacular for the bigger movies with the top nine films released this year making up for forty percent of the box office takin...
Thomas’s Top 10 of 2015
2015 will forever be known as the year of the reboot/sequel. Not only did these films primarily dominate the box office (including two separate world records being set) the stony hearts of critics we...