Robb Sheppard on the ultimate 90s action movie, Speed… The 1990s witnessed a changing of the guard when it came to action movies. Speed crashed into 1994 and went from being “that bus movie” to one of the decade’s finest straight-up action films. Alongside the gloriously OTT Con Air, the far-fetched Face/Off, and Michael Bay’s […]
Movie Review – Gravity (2013)
Gravity, 2013. Directed by Alfonso Cuarón. Starring Sandra Bullock and George Clooney. SYNOPSIS: A medical engineer and an astronaut work together to survive after an accident leaves them adrift in space. When the trailer for Alfonso Cuaron’s Gravity hit the Internet earlier this year, it sparked a huge amount of interest from movie goers […]
Movie Review – Our Brand is Crisis (2015)
Our Brand is Crisis, 2015. Directed by David Gordon Green. Starring Sandra Bullock, Billy Bob Thornton, Anthony Mackie, Joaquim de Almeida, Ann Dowd, Scoot McNairy, Zoe Kazan, and Reynaldo Pacheco. SYNOPSIS: An American woman, well-versed in political campaigns, is sent to the war-torn lands of South America to help install a new leader but is […]
Movie Review – Ocean’s 8 (2018)
Ocean’s 8, 2018. Directed by Gary Ross. Starring Sandra Bullock, Cate Blanchett, Anne Hathaway, Mindy Kaling, Sarah Paulson, Awkwafina, Richard Armitage, James Corden, Rihanna, Helena Bonham Carter, and Dakota Fanning. SYNOPSIS: Debbie Ocean gathers an all-female crew to attempt an impossible heist at New York City’s yearly Met Gala. With the announcement of an all […]
Brad Pitt’s Bullet Train delayed to fill release date vacated by Black Adam
Over the last couple of years the movie release calendar has been a little like looking up at the arrivals and departures board of a busy inner-city train station, so it perhaps fitting that David Leitch’s Bullet Train is going to have to wait just outside the platform for a couple of weeks in order […]
Movie Review – Summertime (2015)
Summertime, 2015. Directed by Catherine Corsini. Starring Cecile de France, Izia Higelin, Noemie Lvovsky, Benjamin Bellecour and Kevin Azais. SYNOPSIS: Facing an uncertain future working on the family farm, Delphine (Izia Higelin) moves to Paris, where she falls in with a group of radical feminists. She’s attracted to one of its leaders, the older Carole […]
Movie Review – Honeytrap (2014)
Honeytrap, 2014. Directed by Rebecca Johnson. Starring Jessica Sula, Lucien Laviscount, Ntonga Mwanza, and Naomi Ryan. SYNOPSIS: Layla, a naive teenager from Trindad, moves to Brixton, London to live with her emotionally distant mother. Layla gets sucked into local gang activity trying to impress those around her. Honeytrap is an engaging film based on a […]
Kurt Angle talks Oscar-nominated Foxcatcher
Little-known fact, professional wrestler Kurt Angle actually trained for the Olympics on Foxcatcher farm, and developed a close friendship with Dave Schultz. An even lesser-known fact is that he dedicated his Olympic gold-medal win to Dave. Due to the memories and deep personal relationships with everyone depicted in the movie, it makes sense that Kurt […]
Movie Review – The Stanford Prison Experiment (2015)
The Stanford Prison Experiment, 2015. Directed by Kyle Patrick Alvarez. Starring Billy Crudup, Ezra Miller, Michael Angarano, Tye Sheridan, Thomas Mann, and Olivia Thirlby. SYNOPSIS: Twenty-four male students out of seventy-five were selected to take on randomly assigned roles of prisoners and guards in a mock prison situated in the basement of the Stanford psychology […]
The Gay Lord of the Rings: Readings From Middle-Earth
Gary Collinson examines contemporary readings of J.R.R. Tolkien’s epic masterpiece, The Lord of the Rings… Originally published in three volumes in 1954 and 1955, The Lord of the Rings is an epic high fantasy chronicling the ‘War of the Ring’ and the end of the Third Age of ‘Middle-Earth’ – a secondary world created by […]
