Jackson Ball reviews the second episode of Orange Is the New Black Season 2 … After a tense but rewarding season opener, it’s back to prison-life reality as we return to the familiar stomping-ground of Litchfield Penitentiary. Piper’s back from Chicago, but how will her fellow inmates react to her following her brutal attack on […]

Jackson Ball reviews the Season 2 premiere of Orange Is the New Black… The first season of Netflix’s Orange Is the New Black had it all: colourful characters, brilliantly dark humour, critical acclaim and one hell of a cliff-hanger. One year on, it’s time to continue Piper Chapman’s story of incarceration, as we return to […]

X-Men: Days of Future Past, 2014. Directed by Bryan Singer. Starring Hugh Jackman, Jennifer Lawrence, James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Nicholas Hoult, Lucas Till, Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Halle Berry, Anna Paquin, Ellen Page, Shawn Ashmore, Daniel Cudmore, Evan Peters, Booboo Stewart, Omar Sy, Fan Bingbing, Adan Canto, Evan Jonigkeit, Josh Helman, and Peter Dinklage. SYNOPSIS: […]

As part of the BFI’s Studio Ghibli Season, Jackson Ball reviews Spirited Away… In one of the more terrifying cases of time passing in the blink of an eye, it has been nearly thirteen years since Spirited Away’s initial release. Often billed as Hayao Miyazaki’s masterpiece, the film has broken some impressive monetary records in […]

The Raid 2, 2014. Directed by Gareth Evans. Starring: Iko Uwais, Cocep Rahman, Julie Estelle, Tegar Satrya, Yayan Ruhian, Arifin Putra, Alex Abbad and Donny Alamsyah. SYNOPSIS: Having escaped from the infamous tower block in the first film, Rama (Uwais) is thrown back into the brutal environment of the Indonesian underworld via a dangerous undercover […]