Film Review Archive

Weekend DVD Review

Considering what a banner year 2011 was for British cinema, Weekend, the second feature from director Andrew Haigh, may prove to be the very best of the crop of accomplished home grown films that hit multiplexes last year. Set over the course of a single autumn weekend in Nottingham, the film begins when Russell (Tom [...]
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Young Adult Review

Mavis Gary (Charlize Theron) had it all in high school. She was tall, beautiful, the prom queen, and had a jock boyfriend to match. Fast forward twenty years and she’s moved from suburban Mercury, Minnesota, to the metropolis of Minneapolis. She lives in a swanky condo with a tiny, fluffy dog and is the author [...]
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Take Shelter Review

Take Shelter, the second film by American director Jeff Nichols, is a film that manages to be absolutely terrifying without actually falling over into being a horror film. The film has such a persistent sense of foreboding and dread to it that whilst it may recall the works of Terrence Malick and David Gordon Green [...]
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Three Colours Trilogy

Released between 1993 and 1994, Krzysztof Kieslowski’s Three Colours Trilogy was almost instantly hailed as a high watermark of the European and art-house cinema of the ’90s, and even watched nearly twenty years later it remains a staggering achievement, a monumental work from a visionary filmmaker that retains its heartbreaking and audacious power. Though the [...]
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First Cut – Shotgun Stories

In this new regular feature, we examine the debut works of major filmmakers in the hope of showcasing the films themselves, and offering insight into how the early work of a filmmaker can shape the path of their subsequent career. To coincide with the U.K. release of Jeff Nichols’ excellent second film, Take Shelter, this [...]
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Film Review.

The long awaited penultimate instalment of the Harry Potter film series arrived this weekend with a record breaking performance at the box office. Although the franchises performance and longevity are of no particular surprises, it didn’t stop there being a sense of disappointment with The Deathly Hallows Part 1. Perhaps this is in part caused [...]
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