By Linda Marric The main issue with Pete Travis' new film City Of Tiny Lights isn’t its lack of an interesting story to tell. With a great premise and a fantastic cast, this could have easily become one of this year’s greatest British success stories. However, the film is largely...
By Linda Marric In Going In Style, director Zach Braff opts of a rather generic style of filmmaking to bring us a less than exciting heist movie featuring three of Hollywood’s most respected veteran actors. This remake of a Martin Brest’s 1979 movie of the same premise and name, sadly...
By Linda Marric Black magic rituals and all manner of creepy shenanigans take centre stage in Liam Gavin's terrifying indie horror A Dark Song. Written as well as directed by this first time Irish director, the film offers a fresh twist on the “haunted house” genre, and takes its audience...
Wyndham Hacket Pain @WyndhamHP It is always interesting when figures from what appears to be the opposite side of the film industry come together. With Aftermath there is on one hand Arnold Schwarzenegger, the much ridiculed former bodybuilder, Governor of California, and action movie veteran. On the other there is...
By Leslie Byron Pitt While Stanley Kubrick’s methodical work ethic produced a low volume of high-quality work, it’s easy to forget that the productivity of a prolific filmmaker can bear equally rewarding fruits. In the space of ten years, Chilean director Pablo Larraín has produced seven features and has only...
By Wyndham Hacket Pain Controversial and often divisive, Rainer Werner Fassbinder directed 40 films in 14 years before his death from a drug overdose aged 37 in 1982. He was so prolific during his lifetime that even today audiences and critics are still catching up with his work that in...
By Linda Marric I Am Not Your Negro, five simple words which carry with them 400 years of American history. In this moving documentary drama, Raoul Peck gives legendary civil rights hero and award winning writer James Baldwin, a voice from beyond the grave almost thirty years after his passing....
By Linda Marric Every so often a film comes along and awakens something in its audience, something so visceral, so real and so utterly mesmeric that you are left wondering why there are not more films like it being made. As luck would have it, Julia Ducournau’s film Raw definitely...
By Michael McNulty With the release of Going in Style on Friday we've been thinking about the best heist scenes in film so get your team, your gloves and safe cracking tools together and settle in, here are five of the best heist and robbery scenes that film has to...