• Film Review – We Are Many

    Two words: political documentary. Still here? Good. Although it’s not the light-hearted escapism many of us crave from cinematic outings, Amir Amirani’s new film offers a crucial, thought-provoking analysis of the state of worldwide democracy. On February 15th 2003, over 15 million people in over 800 cities around the world took...
  • Film Review – Get On Up

    After the exploration of racial politics of ’60’s suburbia in The Help, director Tate Taylor has turned to another iconic aspect of the 1960s American landscape – the music. More specifically, the sheer energy and rambunctiousness of James Brown. Initially limited to predominately black audiences, Mister Brown gradually became increasingly influential...
  • Review – Leviathan

    Not to be confused with 2012’s Leviathan – a documentary that deals with the North American fishing industry – Russian director Andrey Zvyaginstev’s fourth endeavour is a different beast entirely. With the title here referring to the Old Testament sea monster analogous with Satan, the film struggles head on...
  • Review – The Imitation Game

    After watching The Imitation Game, I found myself leaving the theatre feeling enlightened and inspired, yet grossly enraged by mathematician and code breaker Alan Turing’s remarkable tale. The Imitation Game tells the story of how Turing, played by Benedict Cumberbatch, heroically assisted in the Allied defeat of Adolf Hitler...
  • Rewind Review – Children Of Men

    Imagine a society where the youngest person in the world is 18 years, 4 months, 2 days, 16 hours and 8 minutes old and the most famous celebrity on the planet. ‘Baby Diego’ is special for only one reason: he was the last person ever conceived. Children of Men...
  • Review – Life Itself

    Steve James helms this wonderful documentary about the life and death of the great film critic Roger Ebert. With a dexterity and a frankness becoming of the man himself, James charts Ebert’s time as a grizzled newspaper editor in Chicago, his accidental introduction to the career that would define...
  • Review – The Drop

    Tom Hardy, Noomi Rapace and the late James Gandolfini star in this New York-based neo-noir from director Michael R. Roksam. Cousin Marv (Gandolfini) is the caretaker of a drop bar (used to launder money for the mob), having been forced out of ownership by Chechen gangsters. Bob (Hardy) tends...