Scott Davis reviews the first episode of Community season four… “And we’re back…“ After months of trials and tribulations surrounding TV’s best, but horrifically underwatched show, Thursday finally saw the return of the madcap students of Greendale Community College. But what should have been a triumphant return turned into a nightmare for its fans, as […]

Kirsty Capes reviews the sixth episode of Downton Abbey season 3… After all the doom and gloom that’s been going on in Downton recently, it’s nice to have an episode with more positives than negatives. This episode is just that. We see the mourning period for the family is coming to a close and Cora […]

Commenting on the Critics with Simon Columb… Nick James writes in the new March edition of Sight & Sound about how Steven Soderbergh’s statement “I just don’t think movies matter anymore, culturally” may be a little… cynical: “For a while now, lamentation and nostalgia have been rife in the discourse around cinema (not least in these pages). […]

Rohan Morbey reviews the first season of Netflix’s political drama series House of Cards… Forget the fact that Netflix has released all 13 episodes of their US remake of the British show House of Cards all at once rather than the traditional one-per-week – the question is should you watch it? The answer is yes, […]

Exit Humanity, 2011. Written and Directed by John Geddes. Starring Mark Gibson, Dee Wallace and Bill Moseley. SYNOPSIS: The story of Edward Young, a man who must fight to survive in the aftermath of a zombie outbreak during the American Civil War. Exit Humanity takes a tried and tested genre, the zombie movie, and attempts […]

The Hunter, 2011. Directed by Daniel Nettheim. Starring Willem Dafoe, Sam Neill, Morgana Davies, Frances O’Connor, Sullivan Stapleton, Callan Mulvey, Jacek Koman and Dan Wyllie. SYNOPSIS: A mercenary American hunter is hired by a shadowy biotech organisation to travel to Tasmania and investigate sightings of the Tasmanian tiger, a species previously thought extinct. The Hunter […]

Ice Age: Continental Drift, 2012. Directed by Steve Martino and Mike Thurmeier. Featuring the voice talents of Ray Romano, John Leguizamo, Denis Leary, Queen Latifah, Seann William Scott, Keke Palmer, Josh Peck, Chris Wedge, Alan Tudyk, Nick Frost, Patrick Stewart, Peter Dinklage, Jennifer Lopez, Drake and Nicki Minaj. SYNOPSIS: After their world starts to literally […]

The Amazing Spider-Man, 2012. Directed by Marc Webb. Starring Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone, Rhys Ifans, Denis Leary, Martin Sheen, Sally Field, Irrfan Khan and Chris Zylka. SYNOPSIS: A brilliant but troubled young man is bitten by a genetically altered spider, changing him forever. We know this story, don’t we? We’ve heard it all before, so […]

Transit, 2012. Directed by Antonio Negret. Starring Jim Caviezel, James Frain, Elisabeth Röhm, Diora Baird, Sterling Knight, Ryan Donowho, Jake Cherry and Harold Perrineau. SYNOPSIS: A gang of bank robbers use a suburban family as unwitting couriers to move millions of dollars of stolen money past a police roadbloack. What happens when four bank robbers […]

The Amazing Spider-Man, 2012. Directed by Marc Webb. Starring Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone, Rhys Ifans, Denis Leary, Martin Sheen, Sally Field, Irrfan Khan and Chris Zylka. SYNOPSIS: Peter Parker develops superhuman powers after being bitten by a genetically engineered spider. $114,844,116. Hands up if you know what significance this number has in film history. That’s […]