Anghus Houvouras explains why he’s already sick of Star Wars… It’s hard to believe it’s only been four months since Disney purchased Lucasfilm for $4 billion.  I say that because the last four months have felt like a freaking eternity. New Star Wars films has cranked the internet into overdrive.  Rampant speculation has surrounded every […]

Luke Owen and his movie marathon cohorts takes in a 15 movie Godzilla marathon… Movie Marathon Meeting – Where 3 guys watch franchise movies one after the others. This marathon is sponsored by curry, beer and a lack of sleep. To date, our longest marathon was the initial marathon of Friday the 13th at 12 movies which […]

The second series of Black Mirror started last night (you can read our review here) and Bleeding Cool are reporting that Robert Downey Jr. (Iron Man) has prevailed over other bidders (including George Clooney) for the rights to the first series episode The Entire History of You. “In the near future, everyone has access to a […]

Paul Risker continues his Terry Gilliam retrospective… Jabberwocky sits as an important entry in Gilliam’s canon, representing the realisation of his directorial aspirations. It afforded him a solo directing credit, as well as the opportunity to pursue what he considered to be the aesthetic vision of a professional director he found difficult to pursue previously. […]

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 […]