Midnight’s Children, 2012. Directed by Deepa Mehta. Starring Satya Bhabha, Shahana Goswami, Rajat Kapoor, Shabana Azmi, Ronit Roy. Siddharth, Seema Biswas, Shriya Saran and Kulbhushan Kharbanda. SYNOPSIS: A child born at the exact moment India gains its independence from Britain finds his life becoming as fractured as his homeland.   Often there is a complaint that scenes depicting the rituals of human life are lacking in […]

Jake Peffer reviews the pilot episode of J.J. Abrams and Erik Kripke’s new TV show, the post-apocalyptic sci-fi series Revolution… NBC’s latest big budget show comes in the form of Revolution, which follows the story of an unknown phenomenon that disables all advanced technology on the planet. This forces people to adapt to a world […]

A Night in the Woods, 2011. Directed by Richard Parry. Starring Scoot McNairy, Anna Skellern and Andrew Hawley. SYNOPSIS: A Night in the Woods follows three friends, Brody, his girlfriend Kerry and her cousin Leo, as they go camping in Dartmoor’s Wistman Woods. Bad moods, paranoia and sexual tension all threaten to overpower the group’s […]

Shadow Dancer, 2012. Directed by James Marsh. Starring Clive Owen, Andrea Riseborough, Gillian Anderson, Aidan Gillen, Domhnall Gleeson, Brid Brennan, David Wilmot, Stuart Graham and Martin McCann. SYNOPSIS: In 1990s Belfast, an IRA member becomes an MI5 informant in order to protect her son’s welfare. Following the recent events in Northern Ireland, James Marsh’s 1993 […]

With its latest comic book-inspired adaptation Arrow building a positive buzz ahead of its premiere next month, The CW has now turned its attention to another DC Comics character, with Vulture reporting that the network has started development on a small screen adaptation of Wonder Woman alongside DC and Warner Bros. Television. Entitled Amazon, the […]

Argo, 2012. Directed by Ben Affleck. Starring Ben Affleck, Bryan Cranston, Taylor Schilling, John Goodman, Kyle Chandler, Alan Arkin, Zeljko Ivanek, Clea DuVall, Tate Donovan and Victor Garber. SYNOPSIS: The CIA orchestrates a Hollywood rouse in order to rescue Americans sheltered by the Canadian embassy during the Iranian revolution. When the Americans assist in bringing […]

Looper, 2012.Directed by Rian Johnson. Starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Bruce Willis, Emily Blunt, Jeff Daniels, Piper Perabo, Paul Dano, Garret Dillahunt and Tracie Thoms. SYNOPSIS: A mob hitman runs afoul with his employer when he has to assassinate an older version of himself. When the killing of targets in the future gets impossible, mobsters send their […]

Lawless, 2012. Directed by John Hillcoat. Starring Shia LaBeouf, Tom Hardy, Gary Oldman, Jessica Chastain, Guy Pearce and Mia Wasikowska. SYNOPSIS: The true story of the infamous Bondurant brothers: bootlegging siblings who made a run for the American Dream in Prohibition-era Virginia. Seeing that Lawless starred Shia LaBeouf (Transformers) and Tom Hardy (The Dark Knight […]

Liam Trim reviews Episode 2 of the BBC’s hit new costume drama, Parade’s End… Warning: Spoilers! After only two episodes Parade’s End looks set to be one of the critical hits of 2012. Despite the fact that Tom Stoppard’s adaptation of Ford Madox Ford’s novel lost almost a million viewers last Friday, with many tempted […]

Liam Trim reviews the first episode of the new series of Doctor Who… Warning: Spoilers! The build up to the new series of Doctor Who has been dominated by talk of bigger budgets, cinematic vision and blockbuster scale. Head writer and executive producer Steven Moffat loves a grand, complex narrative, and here he is laying […]