• Film Review – Hotel Transylvania 2

    With the success of the first Hotel Transylvania (2012) Sony have made a sequel, and there’s just as much halloweeney family fun as the first! This film sees ‘the drac pack’ return- the familiar family  of  stock Halloween and gothic characters (Dracula, Frankenstein, the Mummy, the Werewolf) are once again...
  • Film Review – The Martian

    Ridley Scott doesn’t have a monopoly on space, but sometimes it can feel that way (even though Alfonso Cuarón likely made the definitive space movie of the past decade). He’s the founder of the Alien franchise and awkward purveyor of new Prometheus brand too – some of the biggest...
  • Film Review – Everest

    Who knew 29,029 feet would be the benchmark at which humanity would test their resolve, resilience and thirst for ambition? Mount Everest, part of the Himalayas, is the highest point on Planet Earth, and coming in at 8,848 metres above sea level, it is a place where humanity cannot thrive or...
  • Film Review – The Visit

    Though he’s only been working for a fraction of the time of Woody Allen, M. Night Shyamalan may well end up in the same basket, where every new release is heralded with lots of questioning cries: “is this one his return to form?” While no means set to make...
  • Film Review – Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials

    The Hunger Games is coming to an end, opening a gap in the Young Adult film market. The second of three expected Maze Runner films, Scorch Trials is a definite step up from the first, and in many ways, surpasses elements of The Hunger Games franchise. The kids may...
  • Film Review – Legend

    “It takes a lot of love to hate a man this much” narrates Reggie Kray’s wife in the opening of the new British gangster film, Legend.  It is a deft line that embodies the conflicted attitude many Brits have towards the notorious Kray twins.  While they were often brutally...
  • Film Review – Straight Outta Compton

    Biopics are the most awkward of genres. We all live our own lives and we know from them that unlike movies they aren’t neat; the overarching themes don’t become obvious until years after the fact and things happen by chance and luck that in a movie would be nothing...