• Film Review: Velvet Buzzsaw

    Velvet Buzzsaw is Dan Gilroy’s second film, 5 years after his refreshingly unique neo-noir film Nightcrawler. While Nightcrawler was so ground-breaking in injecting new themes into the often cliché-laden genre of neo-noir, Velvet Buzzsaw is far less perceptive and engaging in what it tries to say about the art...
  • Look out For… August

    As this unusually warm summer rages on, the box office appears to have borne the brunt of it. Nevertheless, there’s a plethora of films to enjoy this month. It would be understandable if you had forgotten that there was yet another addition to the Marvel Cinematic Universe coming out...
  • Film Review: Hereditary

    A new generation of horror movie has entered the respectable, mainstream imagination. As shown by the success of films such as the satirical Get Out, The Killing of A Sacred Deer and A Quiet Place, the modern horror aims to be not just frightening, but thought-provoking too. Hereditary is...
  • Film Review – Krampus

    ‘Twas two nights before Christmas, when Max in despair, Tore his letter to Santa Claus into the air; His anger at family, little did he know, Would release an ancient force from out of the snow. At each other’s throats, as only fam’ly are, Max finally breaks, as they...
  • Trailer Watch – Krampus

    This is it, people. The first Christmas movie trailer has been released…but it’s not what you’d expect. Despite a traditional start, with presents, family visits, slightly dry Christmas dinner and a shot of Nottingham’s own Market Square in the first few seconds, Christmas is suddenly ruined when all the...
  • Review – The Boxtrolls

    Beneath the streets of Cheesebridge, there lives a disgusting band of evil trolls that come out at night to steal and eat the children of the town – or so Archibald Snatcher (Ben Kingsley) would have the populace believe. The truth is that trolls do live in the sewers...