Netflix Film of the Week: Transsiberian

02/10/2013.Reading time 3 minutes.

The FILM IN WORDS Netflix Film of the Week: helping you navigate the filmic minefield of the nation’s favourite video streaming service.

The Kings of Summer Review: Boyz 2 Men

01/10/2013.Reading time 4 minutes.

INTO THE WILD Trapped beneath the roofs of their domineering parents’ homes and longing for the freedom of adulthood, high school buddies, Joe, Patrick and Biaggio, decide to cut out the middle man (in this case, Father Time) and build themselves a makeshift home in the woods – a tangible yet mythical space in which […]

Populaire Review: Rocky with Typewriters

25/09/2013.Reading time 3 minutes.

Words: Brody Rossiter Twitter: @BrodyRossiter EYE OF THE TYPIST Starring Belgian actress Déborah François (L’Enfant), alongside Romain Duris (The Beat That My Heart Skipped), Populaire tells the charming and romantic tale of Rose, a young woman from “nowheresville” who under the tutelage of her new boss Louis attempts to become the fastest touch-typist in the […]

Netflix Film of the Week: The Hunt

23/09/2013.Reading time 5 minutes.

The FILM IN WORDS Netflix Film of the Week: helping you navigate the filmic minefield of the nation’s favourite video streaming service.

Blockade, Landscape, Revue: 3 films by Sergei Loznitsa Review

20/09/2013.Reading time 5 minutes.

Words: Brody Rossiter Twitter: @BrodyRossiter BACK IN THE U.S.S.R. Pieced together solely from footage sourced from the Soviet film archives, Sergei Loznitsa’s collection of documentaries, Blockade, Revue, and Landscape, provides a largely unseen portrait of Russia’s tumultuous and often deeply tragic journey through the 20th Century. Retrospectively the key events which have marked the vast […]

Squirm Review: They Came From Underground

17/09/2013.Reading time 3 minutes.

They Came From Underground Worms: wriggly, slimy, gross, all acceptable adjectives when describing those bizarre non-arthropod invertebrate animals that slowly pulsate through the ground upon which we walk… but scary? Scary just doesn’t cut it when it comes to fleshy entities we accidentally step upon on a dark, sodden winter morning. Squirm, the debut feature […]