Reviews

It’s Hollywood, folks! The 50s are underway and the studios are churning out westerns, musicals, period dramas, aquatic ballets, and historical epics – all under the shadow of America’s new reality: the Cold War. With abducted film stars, starlets’ pregnancies ...

Over the past few years, I have thoroughly enjoyed Jen Williams’ fun fantasy series involving a badass female sell-sword and her unlikely associates. The first installment, The Copper Promise was so tongue-in-cheek and action-packed I barely came up for air ...

The world’s biggest rock star, Marianne Lane, has lost her voice and is recovering on a sun-kissed Italian island with her lover, Paul. Restive paradise is shattered, however, by the arrival of her boisterous producer, and former lover, Harry. Bubbling ...

It feels like cable channels and other alternative programming arenas are embracing the anti-Hollywood love story. With shows like Girls and Californication, we’ve seen all kinds of self-destructive, narcissistic behaviour of young twenty-somethings and even older generations. The new Judd ...

Where to begin? The totality of human existence. A harsh life in the unremitting cold. The binds of family. Bitter feuds and recrimination. Moments of abject violence. No, I am not talking about The Revenant. This is Rams. It’s a ...

The alcoves of Southwark hold a nice little gem, The Underdog Art Gallery, which is presently hosting DWAM, a solo show by London-based Sardinian artist Gianluca Pisano. The gallery sells this as a display of paintings that “acknowledge the ‘old ...

I find myself more and more disappointed with the standards of film advertising. If I have to be exposed to minute upon minute of trailers prior to ever feature, they could at least give me a fair idea of what ...

I can’t imagine anyone had any expectations that Pride and Prejudice and Zombies would be anything other than supremely stupid. These expectations were not unfounded. It is, indeed, of the highest order of stupidity. Unfortunately, it completely misses the mark ...

Deadpool (played by Ryan Reynolds) is an odd character to have his own film. He’s on the outskirts of the main Marvel universe and rarely read by the casual comics fan. His antics and foul mouth might appeal to the ...

Here’s something of an irony. The Big Short is a film about how a large structure comes crashing down because its constituent parts turn out to be worthless. The Big Short is also a film in which the structure succeeds ...