Fighting Talk: Vanilla Sky

21/08/2013.Reading time 12 minutes.

FIGHTING TALK re-evaluates and celebrates some of cinema’s most divisive releases, hopefully convincing you to go back and give them a second chance. First out of the corner, Vanilla Sky.

Sunday Scare: Deranged

18/08/2013.Reading time 4 minutes.

If the prospect of Monday morning wasn’t scary enough, have a frightful end to your weekend with the FILM IN WORDS Sunday Scare.

THE PLACE BEYOND THE PINES REVIEW: BEAUTIFUL & DAMNED

13/08/2013.Reading time 4 minutes.

THE MEMORY REMAINS Spanning two decades and focusing upon numerous intricately crafted characters, The Place Beyond the Pines is a brave, bold and wildly beautiful picture show offering a defiant lesson in how to fashion twenty-first century iconography. Reuniting Derek Cianfrance and leading man Ryan Gosling, the pair pick up where they left off with […]

Curzon Home Cinema: Nicolas Winding Refn Season

02/08/2013.Reading time 2 minutes.

For almost two decades Danish director Nicolas Winding Refn has captivated audiences with his unique brand of brutally hypnotic filmmaking. Brandishing a highly stylised and effortlessly cool trademark, only matched, and often surpassed by his visceral penchant for ultra-violence, Refn has slowly but surely carved a path through World and Hollywood cinema. From his infamous […]

Side Effects Review: Pills, Thrills, and Bellyaches

31/07/2013.Reading time 4 minutes.

Tentatively billed as the last major motion picture of veteran director Steven Soderbergh, conspiracy thriller Side Effects had an illustrious career’s worth of cinema to live up to in providing the auteur of ensemble with a fitting farewell to the medium he left an unmistakable signature upon. Spanning from deep cult cinema cuts such as […]

The Dark Knight Rises Review

20/07/2012.Reading time 5 minutes.

Today, very rarely do truly epic cinematic events rise from ambiguity in such a spectacular manner as Christopher Nolan’s Batman Trilogy. Following The Caped Crusader’s eight year absence from cinemas little was expected from 2005’s Batman Begins in the wake of previously disappointing additions into the beloved franchise. Nolan’s previous filmsultimately hinted at the vast […]