The Orange British Academy Film Awards represented something rather different this year: a growing appreciation of low-budget and inspiring art house film, at the expense of multi-million dollar epic blockbusters.
The clear winner at London’s Royal Opera House was the intense war drama The Hurt Locker which swept aside Avatar, despite James Cameron’s multi-million dollar creation [...]

Some films are a powerful maelstrom of deep varying emotions - making you laugh out loud, gasp in fear, weep deeply or shudder, all in quick succession. Youth In Revolt is not one of these films. I spent most of the duration smiling with a bemused look on my face. Big laugh-out-loud moments are scarce. [...]

A decade is a deceptively long amount of time, I mean for the vast majority of us students at this fine establishment the ‘noughties’ constituted half of our fledgling lives. Cast your mind back to the dawn of this new millennium; Pierce Brosnan was still James Bond, hobbits and Harry Potter were little more than [...]

There are a few phrases which I utter that cause any alpha-males around me to openly question my heterosexuality; “I’m not really into football” is one; “I starred in the school musical” is another. But no phrase causes sexual-orientation speculation quite as much as…“I like romantic comedies”.
Romantic comedies have long been classified as “chick flicks”. [...]

Is it just me, or is Superbad the most ridiculously unfunny, overrated movie ever, let alone this decade? I know what you’re thinking – Yes, it is just you, Superbad’s hilarious. The bit where that girl bleeds on the fat one. I nearly wet myself. I’ve heard it before and no amount of repeating the [...]

Imagine not leaving your apartment for over a year, living off vacuum packed, vegetarian astronaut food and having a strict organisational routine for filing your used dental floss and urine. And then imagine that routine is disrupted. This is what happens to Stephen (Edward Hogg) in ‘Bunny and the Bull’ and it forces him to [...]

Horror has been one of the most successful genres in cinema for a long time. It appears that people just enjoy being scared when there is in fact no real danger. But recently cinema producers have been borrowing a technique first used in 1950’s to increase the fear factor by releasing these films in 3D, [...]