Bad boy bad boy
It’s comedy season again, and things are kicking off in the most family-unfriendly way possible (in both a literal ‘this is a crude comedy’ and ‘this is a comedy where unfriendly acts are committed against a family’ sense)
Film & TV
This section prints reviews of movies and TV shows as well as major film festivals.
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2013-14 television renewal and cancellation
May is the month television fans find out whether their favourite shows will be back for another season or not. So here is the rundown of some of 2013-14 season’s main primetime network shows and how well they are faring over in the States.
The Lego Movie: Imperial College Cinema
The announcement that a movie based around everyone’s favourite line of construction toys was met with rants about the extent of consumerism in cinema.
Rise of the machine
No one likes a know-it-all. But for Evelyn Castor (Rebecca Hall), her significant other, her partner in science and in life, Will Castor (Johnny Depp) really does know it all. This is after a deadly assassination attempt with a bullet laced in radiation slowly starts to shut down his body.
Double O dear...
There is a line of dialogue that is rather unwisely repeated on a regular basis in The Love Punch. The film is quite insistent on telling the audience that a certain plan the characters come up with is “crazy, daft, stupid, but brilliant”.
Carly’s angels
erial-dating lawyer Carly (Cameron Diaz) finally finds someone who could potentially be “the one”. This is until she figures out that he’s a married man. Game of Thrones’ Jaime Lannister, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, has been a busy man no doubt. His wife Kate (Leslie Mann) is devastated and
An inconvenient truth
It’s a great shame that Yari Film Group Releasing had to declare bankruptcy just before the release of Nothing but the Truth. This meant that the sharply-written, well-acted, legal/political thriller would never get a proper wide release date in the States or anywhere else in the world.
The Raid 2
Subtitled Berandal in the US (much like the original was subtitled Redemption), The Raid 2 picks up (chronologically-speaking) exactly where the original left off, with rookie cop Rama having survived the brutal tower block that claimed the lives of (almost) all of his squad.
The Amazing Spider-Man 2
The obvious point to be made here is that not only is this yet another sequel, it’s also a sequel to a reboot to a film series that was barely a decade old the first time around. And so it is again, with this reboot sequel coming ten years after the best film in the original trilogy.
Rio 2
The original Rio (I’ve noticed the fact I seem to be using ‘the original’ or variations on that theme a lot of late – probably says something about just how many sequels have been coming out this year) was an entertaining-enough blast of colour and samba, propped up by decent vocal performances and
Noah: A Russell Crowe Epic
The sweeping, captioned opening of Darren Aronofsky’s Noah is reminiscent of its cinematic heritage, the Biblical epics of years past, all elegantly flowing cursive script and delicately composed shots, until it promptly swoops down to the dark brutality of humanity.
Muppets Most Wanted
Muppets Most Wanted’s opening song, “We’re Doing a Sequel” successfully nails almost every criticism that could be thrown at it from a “ugh, the sequel’s not as good as the original” point of view which makes reviewing it slightly difficult.