• Watch This If…You Need Help Multitasking

    Adjusting to university can be a somewhat sticky situation, as you may want to grip to all you’ve ever known whilst new, sometimes exciting experiences can seem to be peeling you in a different direction. In Spider-Man 2, Peter Parker feels your student-related angst, as he attempts to spin...
  • Review – The Boxtrolls

    Beneath the streets of Cheesebridge, there lives a disgusting band of evil trolls that come out at night to steal and eat the children of the town – or so Archibald Snatcher (Ben Kingsley) would have the populace believe. The truth is that trolls do live in the sewers...
  • Review – 20,000 Days On Earth

    “I’ve always been an ostentatious bastard”. During his 57 years on earth, Nick Cave has been a part of four bands, scripted three films (a new version of The Crow is also in the works), scored a dozen, and published four novels and poetry collections. His singular approach to his art...
  • Review – A Most Wanted Man

    Anton Corbijn’s film version of John le Carré’s novel follows Günter Wachtmann (the late Philip Seymour Hoffman) as he attempts to track a Chechen Muslim in the hope that he will lead him to supporters of Al-Qaeda. However, Wachtmann must deal with factions within German Intelligence and interference from...
  • Oska Bright Film Festival Tour Comes To Nottingham

    Next week the Oska Bright Film Festival comes to Nottingham’s Broadway Cinema, supporting some of the more under represented members of the global film community.  Oska Bright’s bill consists entirely of films and music videos made by learning disabled artists, and the festival has regularly toured the country providing these...
  • Review – The Iron Rose

    After the life-changing and unforgettable Let Me Die a Woman, David Flint of the Strange Things Are Happening website chose a far more haunting and less borderline-offensive feature for his next screening as part of the Scalarama festival. Jean Rollin’s La rose de fer (The Iron Rose) from 1973 is a slight tale, but its...
  • “Watch every kind of movie…” – Talking with Watergate Cinematek

    Impact Film & TV talks to Watergate Cinematek, the latest of Nottingham’s film clubs which revved into life with an Independence Day double bill (reviewed here), and has since screened The Conformist as part of this month’s Scalarama festival. We spoke to freelance film critic and author of The Betamax Revolt...