Imperial Cinema Presents: RoboCop
Imperial Cinema is back to give you some well-needed relaxation time away from central library! This week we’re showing the new remake of the 80s classic RoboCop.
Film & TV
This section prints reviews of movies and TV shows as well as major film festivals.
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How good is The Good Wife?
Primetime television shows (i.e. the ones that are not on cable channels and therefore lack sex, nudity, violence and swearing) are often unfairly overlooked when it comes to providing an answer for that question “what’s your favourite tv show”?
Game of Thrones returns
Emily Fulham reviews the highlights and lowlights of the series so far
Divergent
The quest to find the next Hunger Games finds it next entrant in Veronica Roth’s series of YA novels, and this time (after a few misfires that will go un-named, and an excellent second Hunger Games film) it looks like the studios might just have found what they’re looking for.
Captain America: The Winter Soldier
Phase 2 continues apace. The third Iron Man started things off in a typically Shane Black fashion of quips and action, the second Thor trod a darker path while beginning to introduce the elements that will come together in an inevitably glorious fashion...
Calvary
Following on from their previous effort The Guard, director John Michael McDonagh (brother of Marty) have teamed up again for Calvary, the tale of a well-meaning, innocent priest told in the confessional that he has only a week left to live.
The West Wing: A Retrospective
Emily Fulham takes a nostalgic look back at the Bartlet administration
Modern Family
The result of over 7 years work, Jim Jarmusch’s latest film takes a bold new look at the gothic classic of vampires.
Get Ready For All Night At The Oscars
As we near the end of another exhausting term at our favourite university, the return of the hallowed Imperial cinema All-Nighter also rapidly approaches. In a year of unusually high caliber for Oscar nominated films, we’ve selected the crème de la crème of the Oscar crop just for you.
Jesse feels the need for <del>meth</del> speed
Surely the overwhelming critical success of Breaking Bad could have set up Aaron Paul for a better cinematic role than this one. He has won two Primetime Emmys, and yet one of the first roles he manages to land is in a video game adaptation...
Alien in Scotland
Grating noise over a blackout. A pinprick of light. The noise intensifies, the light grows. More. More. The light spills out, begin to refract. Colours seep through.
A 5-star hotel experience
The Grand Budapest Hotel is a tricky film to review. Put quite simply: it’s a Wes Anderson film. In every conceivable way, as with all of his films before it, it is the essence of its predecessors mixed up, distilled, and delivered to the silver screen in a blast of pure, surreal, bittersweet joy.