• Trailer Watch – Sausage Party

    Chances are, most of you who have seen this trailer on Facebook, or elsewhere, clicked on it it thinking ‘aw cute, another animated film’. From the start it looks like any other kids film, albeit about food. The trailer informs us that all food dreams of is being taken...
  • Film Review – The Night Before

    Seth Rogen, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Anthony Mackie team-up with director Jonathan Levine to bring us The Night Before, a raunchy, blatantly offensive yet at the same time downright hilarious comedy, sprinkled with a little holiday spirit. The movie follows friends Ethan Miller (Gordon-Levitt), Isaac Greenberg (Rogen) and Chris Roberts...
  • Trailer Watch – Steve Jobs

    It’s yet another Steve Jobs film, as apparently the world needs more of a man who is the embodiment of the marmite principle. This time it’s Michael Fassbender’s turn, and this first look trailer shows about five seconds of him in the title role. Adapting Walter Isaacson’s authorised 2011 biography of...
  • Film Review – The Interview

    The latest comedy from James Franco, Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, riffs on an assassination attempt on North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un, with the CIA learning of his nuclear building programmes and hiring two talk show journalists to do the job under the facade of an interview. The Interview...
  • Scrapbook – Controversial Films

    Amidst the controversy of Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg’s The Interview, our contributors have selected to write about some of the most controversial films of the past to coincide with the comedy’s UK release. Wake in Fright Lost for over thirty years, Ted Kotcheff’s Wake in Fright (1971) has enjoyed a recent...
  • Is Our Movie-Going Experience Under Threat? 

    “Soon all the world will see what an awful movie Sony Pictures Entertainment has made. The world will be full of fear. Remember the 11th of September 2001. We recommend you to keep yourself distant from the places at that time…” This is the chilling message that has threatened a terrorist attack to...
  • Trailer Watch – The Interview

    The Interview is the second comedy in the directorial partnership of Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, longtime friends and writing partners known for their collaborations on Superbad, This Is the End, and most recently, Bad Neighbours. James Franco plays TV host Dave Skylark alongside Rogen as his producer, Aaron Rapoport, who is informed that...