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Rarely do you find a film that manages to ramp up tension to ‘nail-biting’ and then keep its audience there for nearly 2 ½ hours. Gone Girl not only does just that, but does it fantastically well. Every time you think you may have got a handle on where...

“Sometimes the world doesn’t need a hero, it needs a monster.” Dracula Untold is the new spin on the classic tale in which we get to know the infamous Vlad the Impaler (played by Luke Evans), the 15th century ruler of Wallachia who inspired Bram Stoker’s vampiric 1897 gothic novel Dracula. The...

Released in the aftermath of the death of stalwart Labour politician Tony Benn, Will and Testament is an insightful documentary into understanding post-war British politics and the ideas that shaped the man once dubbed ‘the most dangerous man in Britain’. Far from the distant nature of many political documentaries,...

Director Vishal Bhardwaj made a name for himself in the Indian film industry with his critically acclaimed adaptations of Macbeth (Maqbool) and Othello (Omkara) back in the early 2000s. Eleven years after Maqbool, he finally completes his Shakespearean trilogy with an adaption of Hamlet that has opened to much...

WARNING: Contains descriptions of depraved and perverted acts, read at own risk. A series of bad decisions recently led me to be sitting in the tiny upstairs room of a city-centre pub, watching a fuzzy black and white scene of a girl getting raped by a gun. I, along...

SPOILER WARNING: Main Plot Points Revealed. Wei Ling Soo is a world-famous magician and master illusionist, with every trick in the book at his disposal. Out of costume he is the arrogant, self-important and petulant Stanley Crawford (Colin Firth), an inherent pessimist whose treatment of and attitude towards his...

Life is an occasion. Rise to it. After a decade long hiatus following the sleeper success of his directorial debut Garden State (2004) Zach Braff finally returns, with a drama/comedy about a dysfunctional family coming together in the face of terminal cancer. Certainly this is well-trodden ground cinematically, and...