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
The Latest Picture Show welcomes its first guest reviewer in the form of charming, beardy, native of Australia Lachlan Rutherford. Please give him a warm round of applause and revel in his gorgeous… Continue reading
Written, directed and starring the impervious Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Don Jon grows into its taboo subject matter to leave a meaningful social commentary on modern relationships, sex and life in general. Oddly, despite society… Continue reading
Staggering through the overwhelmingly serious Oscar hopefuls is the half cut, aggressive, yet poetically comical, bruiser Dom Hemingway. Unlikely to win any awards the typically British gangster picture is welcome light relief in… Continue reading
Space, the great unknown, the last frontier left for humanity to impossibly try to conquer or at least comprehend marginally more than we already do. The arts have always held a strong fascination… Continue reading
Cinema loves a good adaptation, they always have and always will, in fact often it seems that without the age old delights of the written word there would be no films, such is… Continue reading
“The British are Coming!” Paul Revere exclaimed to the sleepy people of Boston in the dead of the 1775 night, warning them of imminent arrival of some nasty British soldiers hankering for a… Continue reading
Just as the wicked winter nights draw in earlier and earlier so does the premature tattle surrounding the Oscars, usually which Hollywood A-lister is to saunter down the red carpet clutching the little… Continue reading
It’s difficult to know where to begin with Woody Allen, both his personal and professional life have been scrutinised to a point where it seems nothing remotely new or interesting can be… Continue reading
With the year drawing to an inevitable close through dark winter days and impending Christmas overload I thought it worth highlighting some of the films filling out the rest of 2013. Sure there… Continue reading
Way back in 1976 a radical new band appeared upon the musical horizon, a quartet of brash, vulgar horrors with no regard for convention and niceties, unlike anything seen before. Collectively known as… Continue reading
