• TV Review- True Detective, Series 2 – First Impressions

    As time rolls closer to the end of the decade, many critics are already claiming the past ten to fifteen years as the “Golden Age of Television”. Since HBO graced the world of TV crime drama with David Chases’ seminal and groundbreaking Sopranos and David Simon’s uber-realistic The Wire,...
  • Trailer Watch – True Detective, Season 2

    After the critical success of True Detective it was only right that a second series be made. As confirmed previously, this trailer shows us that this season will not follow on from the previous storyline and offers a new detective story and setting. Colin Farrell and Vince Vaughn may...
  • Film Review – Set Fire to the Stars

    New York poet and Literature and Creative Writing professor, John Brinnin (Elijah Wood), thrusts himself over his head when he proposes to guide Welsh poet, Dylan Thomas (Celyn Jones), on his first American poetry tour in 1950. Brinnin soon discovers that Thomas is a wild card, possessed by pandemonium...
  • Anti-Advent Calendar #13

    Christmas. The time to be surrounded by others, especially the eager and effervescent youth. Well, unless it turns out like day thirteen on our Anti-Advent Calendar… Want to be disturbed and further frightened by any form of contact with the youth of today? If so, Eden Lake is the film for...
  • Scrapbook – Denzel Washington

    Denzel Washington is brandishing his own bracket of justice in the new action thriller The Equalizer, and so we’ve justified a short list of the roles we regard as the actor’s finest. Doug Carlin – Déjà Vu Denzel Washington is known for bringing a mixture of sincerity and gravitas...