20 Feet from Stardom, 2013. Directed by Morgan Neville. SYNOPSIS: Backup singers live in a world that lies just beyond the spotlight. Their voices bring harmony to the biggest bands in popular music, but we’ve had no idea who these singers are or what lives they lead, until now. Hearing Gimme Shelter by The Rolling […]

Anghus Houvouras on how nerds ruin movies…. Gravity is fast becoming a phenomenon here in the U.S.  It’s second week tally is $40 million giving it one of the most successful second weekends of 2013 and is on the fast track to becoming one of the year’s biggest hits.  A movie that achieves this level […]

The X-Files may be twenty years old now – and absent from the screen since 2008’s The X Files: I Want to Believe – but that doesn’t mean we’ve necessarily seen the last of FBI Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully, at least if stars David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson have any say in the […]

Commenting on the Critics with Simon Columb…. Will Self took it upon himself to answer back to the core argument of Mark Kermode’s recent book, Hatchet Job, and amongst a thoroughly impressive use of language, he made the following observation… “Now we have instant access to an unparalleled library of films, books and recordings, we […]

Jackson Ball looks at five essential scenes where Al Pacino turns up the volume… Subtlety: it’s an asset you will find in many of history’s finest actors. Sometimes a performance requires a little bit of restraint, and knowing when to dial it back a notch is what can separate the cream of the Hollywood crop. […]

B for Boy, 2013. Written and Directed by Chika Anadu.Starring Ngozi Nwaneto, Uche Nwadili, Nonso Odogwu and Frances Okeke. SYNOPSIS: B for Boy is a contemporary drama set in Nigeria, about one woman’s desperate need for a male child; which reveals the discrimination of women in the names of culture and religion. As you can […]

To countdown to this year’s Halloween, Luke Owen reviews a different horror film every day of October. Next up, the 2013 remake of Evil Dead… Before you jump on the comment bandwagon, today’s Countdown to Halloween is not a bashing of remakes. As many across the Internet landscape have pointed out, there is a lot […]

Captain Phillips, 2013. Directed by Paul Greengrass.Starring Tom Hanks, Catherine Keener, Barkhad Abdi, Barkhad Abdirahman, Faysal Ahmed, Mahat M. Ali, Michael Chernus, David Warshofsky, Corey Johnson, Chirs Mulkey and Yul Vazquez. SYNOPSIS: The true story of Captain Richard Phillips and the 2009 hijacking by Somali pirates of the US-flagged MV Maersk Alabama, the first American […]

My Fathers, My Mother and Me (German: Meine Keine Familie), 2012. Directed by Paul-Julien Robert. SYNOPSIS: Communal property, free sexuality, dissolution of the nuclear family – these were the basic principles of the Friedrichshof, the largest commune in Europe founded by the Viennese Actionist Otto Mühl at the beginning of the 1970s. In My Fathers, […]

A few months ago, a collective sigh and groan of mass disappointment ensued as a result of the casting of Charlie Hunnam (Sons of Anarchy, Pacific Rim) in the Fifty Shades of Grey adaptation. Thankfully, the Kaiju bashing, redneck smashing has dropped out of the “mummy porn” adaptation due to his “immersive TV schedule” on […]