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 […]

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 […]

The Last American Virgin Review

12/09/2013.Reading time 3 minutes.

Words: Brody Rossiter Twitter: @BrodyRossiter I KNOW WHAT BOYS LIKE Originally released in 1982 alongside Fast Times at Ridgemont High, The Last American Virgin is often overlooked when it comes to benchmark releases of the coming-of-age comedy variety. This is primarily due to the enduring popularity and influence of Fast Times’ Cameron Crowe penned script, […]