Labor Day, 2013. Directed by Jason Reitman.Starring Kate Winslet, Josh Brolin, Gattlin Griffith and Tobey Maguire. SYNOPSIS: Escaped prisoner Frank Chambers (Brolin) convinces depressed single mother Adele (Winslet) toharbour him from the police over Labor Day weekend in this all too sweet drama from Jason Reitman. Labor Day is a difficult film to review as […]

Matt Smith reviews episode 10 of The Following season 2… In the previous season of The Following, the attempted parallels between producers and the show itself was the use of Joe Carroll as a writer. He’d come up with a plan, which actually involved writing a story, and he’d meticulously organised and thought about the […]

With Christopher Nolan bringing the curtain down on his Dark Knight Trilogy in 2012 with the release of The Dark Knight Rises, Warner Bros. wasted little time in rebooting its Batman franchise, announcing last year that Ben Affleck will suit up alongside Henry Cavill’s Superman and Gal Gadot’s Wonder Woman for the 2016 Man of […]

Alice Rush reviews the fourth episode of Bates Motel Season 2… The tension behind the scenes of White Pine Bay has always been quietly but surely bubbling away in the background but this week on Bates Motel sees some dramatic shifts in the status quo as well as seeing the Bates trying to come to […]

Paul Risker on the cinema of Wes Anderson…Known for brandishing his pen and camera to create a quirky brand of cinema, with the check-in date upon us for the whimsical delights of his eighth feature film The Grand Budapest Hotel, the imaginative auteur Wes Anderson looks to bring his cinema full circle. From Royal Tenenbaums […]

Brandon Engel on Veronica Mars’ journey from TV to feature… Veronica Mars has returned, and this time we can only hope there won’t be another seven year hiatus before we see her again. Granted, while the shift from television to film was more than bit rocky, it did take far too long for Warner Bros. […]

Matt Smith reviews the fifteenth of Elementary Season 2… Sherlock Holmes, as a detective, works best when he’s in a vacuum. Bereft of distraction, focusing on the job at hand, social niceties not getting in the way of his cold, hard logic. Personal issues shouldn’t come into it; otherwise they’ll pull him away from being, […]

Anghus Houvouras on the rules of the reboot…. So many comic books are being brought to the big screen that it feels almost critical that they evolve beyond origin stories and break free from the tyranny of their genre.  The danger of all these comic book films has always been a vicious cycle of release, […]

Not content with getting his political thrills by playing corrupt, Machiavellian US congressman Frank Underwood in House of Cards, it seems that two time Oscar winner Kevin Spacey has officially agreed to portray former UK Prime Minister Winston Churchill in a feature film depicting his life. The biopic will be entitled Captain of the Gate […]

Trevor Hogg learns about the societal impact of Disneyland with author John Frost as his tour guide… Known for running The Disney Blog, John Frost has recently published a collection of personal stories and essays celebrating what he believes to be the “Happiest Place on Earth.” “Since its opening in 1955, Disneyland has come to […]