If my calculations are correct, I’ve managed to sit through 53 films at the cinema in 2018. Now I’m doing a PhD I can call this work. The only real criteria for my… Continue reading
Cinema, by its nature, is a distortion of reality, often in glorified and bombastic fashion and never more so than in the depiction of serial killers. Cast your mind back to the last… Continue reading
A review of the latest instalment in the doomed, cringe worthy post adolescent lives of Inbetweeners Will, Simon, Jay and Neil. Are the boys still funny down under?
With Blade, Spiderman, X-Men, Captain America, The Fantastic Four, Daredevil (unfortunately), The Punisher, Ghost Rider, The Incredible Hulk, Iron Man, Thor and even bloody Ghost Rider from Marvel’s extensive back catalogue of comics… Continue reading
*Note that there are indeed spoilers for About Schmidt…as the title would imply* Being unemployed, and probably unemployable, I’ve allowed myself the luxury of ploughing through old films like Quinten Tarantino in a… Continue reading
How do we know it’s the summer in England? Well, normally weather is a sound indicator, the maelstrom of cloudy disappointment signifying ‘Great British Summer’ but this year it’s uncharacteristically too ruddy bloody… Continue reading
I’ve managed to rouse myself out of the lethargic stupor that’s gripped me since the World Cup started in order to write this review of 22 Jump Street, a film hardly worth making… Continue reading
I’ve always been a firm believer that real cinematic horror doesn’t stem from axe wielding loons, supernatural exorcisms and cheap, jumpy frights, but from distortions of reality, ventures into the dark, often surreal… Continue reading
I love Godzilla, he’s great, not the rebooted versions but the original Toho creation hailing from 1950s Japan. My youth was riddled with dreams of a giant monster storming the cities of the… Continue reading
Morrissey once remarked “artists aren’t really people. I’m actually 40 per cent papier-mâché”, while not entirely true for himself, he was more like 40 per cent quiff, it could be applied literally to… Continue reading
In an age of cinema characterised by 100 million dollar budgets, cataclysmic special effects and reboots, it’s a welcome sight to witness a film that never leaves the stuffy confines of a BMW… Continue reading
