The Fang-tom Menace
Latest adaptation of Dracula has yet to impress
The Badfellas
What starts off promisingly enough heads for a rapid decline in quality when director Luc Besson doesn’t quite know what to do with the impressive cast he has assembled.
JFK + Vantage Point + Bobby
There are far better movies out there that are based on the assassination of American President John F. Kennedy.
Cartoon Corner: Adventure Time
Tom Rivlin brings us the very first Cartoon Corner!
Can Fassbender handle the truth?
On paper, The Counsellor should be perfect. Cormac McCarthy’s first original screenplay (a few of his other books have been adapted into screenplays – notably No Country for Old Men and The Road), directed by Ridley Scott, the genius behind Alien and the man with such a passion for McCarthy’s...
American Horror Story: Coven
Incest. Rape. Murder. Witches. Voodoo. Resurrection. Zombies. Slavery. Blood. Goats. Snakes. Limbs. A severed tongue. Yes, Ryan Murphy is back doing what he does best – laying on the dark and twisted in the new season of his hit anthology, American Horror Story...
The Comic Success of Don Jon
Jack Steadman reviews the newly released Don Jon, directed by Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Television for the Attention Deficit
From Shakespeare to the Iraq War, Emily Fulham celebrates the unsung art of the miniseries
Like Father Like Son
What do you do when the child you have looked after for the last 6 years turns out to be someone else’s?
Eastern Boys
Eastern Boys, Robin Campillo’s sophomore effort, is a chameleon of a film, that flits from genre to genre; over its two hour running time, it skips from home invasion drama, to tender love story, before climaxing in a finale worthy of a Hollywood thriller.
The return of the Australian Norse god
Thor: The Dark World Director: Alan Taylor Writers: Christopher Yost, Christopher Markus, Stephen McFeely Starring: Chris Hemsworth, Natalie Portman, Anthony Hopkins, Tom Hiddleston, Christopher Eccleston, Idris Elba, Jaimie Alexander, Ray Stevenson, Zachary Levi, Kat Dennings, Stellan Skarsgård, A
The endgame
Ender’s Game Director: Gavin Hood Writers: Gavin Hood, Orson Scott Card (novel) Starring: Harrison Ford, Asa Butterfield, Hailee Steinfeld, Abigail Breslin, Viola Davis, Ben Kingsley Runtime: 114 minutes Certificate: 12A