High School Musical, 2006. Directed by Kenny Ortega. Starring Zac Efron, Vanessa Hudgens, Ashley Tisdale and Corbin Bleu. SYNOPSIS: Two teens decide to buck the status quo and audition for their school musical. Being a mid-twenties heterosexual male who is at least mildly cineliterate, the title High School Musical should result in my top lip […]

Given the success of his low-budget debut, the found footage super powers flick Chronicle, it was inevitable that young director Josh Trank would find himself linked to a number of potential superhero movie adaptations. First up came word that Fox were keen to hand Trank the reins to their Fantastic Four reboot, which was also […]

Commenting on the critics with Simon Columb… Oliver Gettell, for the LA Times, writes: “You’d think a tough guy like super-spy Nick Fury, the ringleader of the titular all-star superhero team in The Avengers, would have pretty thick skin. But it turns out Fury, or at least the actor who plays him, Samuel L. Jackson, […]

Luke Owen on last night’s episode of The Apprentice 2012… If I’ve strategy learned anything from strategy this week’s Apprentice strategy, it’s that strategy having a strategy is a solid plan when strategy starting a business strategy, but strategy saying it over and over again can strategy become incredible annoying. Strategy. Yes, this week’s Apprentice […]

Liam Trim with the latest ‘Page and Screen’… Just over a year ago, Jennifer Egan’s A Visit from the Goon Squad won the Pulitzer Prize. Days later HBO snapped up the rights to the acclaimed novel. Egan apparently had HBO’s The Sopranos in mind at stages during the writing process and they have a reputation […]

Oliver Davis reviews the fifth episode of Game of Thrones Season Two… The Ghost of Harrenhal. Directed by David Petrarca. Written by David Benioff and D.B. Weiss. This week was a mixed bag. We were spoilt with Joffrey’s douchebagery last week, but here he’s not present at all. Stannis Baratheon (Stephen Dillane) and Davos Seaworth […]

Anghus Houvouras on why the online film sites got it wrong, again… Last week Peter Jackson screened ten minutes of footage from The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey at CinemaCon. This is the kind of story that has ‘online traction’ written all over it. The previous trilogy was a multi-billion dollar endeavor that created a new […]

Nobody Walks, 2012. Directed by Ry Russo-Young. Written by Ry Russo-Young and Lena Dunham. Starring John Krasinski, Olivia Thirlby and Jane Levy. SYNOPSIS: A Californian family slowly falls apart after taking a young artist into their home. Nobody walks in Los Angeles. They take cars everywhere. In this film, the phrase also applies to a […]

Commenting on the critics with Simon Columb… Ben Child writes in The Guardian about the “challenge” ahead for The Dark Knight Rises: “Christopher Nolan finds himself in an unusual position as we prepare for the arrival of The Dark Knight Rises in cinemas on 20 July. For the first time since the release of the […]

An Oversimplification of Her Beauty, 2012. Written and Directed by Terence Nance. Starring Terence Nance, Namik Minter and Talibah Lateefah Newman. SYNOPSIS: A man is stood up by a mystery woman, prompting an analysis of platonic and romantic love. Before there was An Oversimplification of Her Beauty, there was a shorter film entitled How Would […]