The Secret Life of Walter Mitty: Life Without Borders

20/12/2013.Reading time less than 1 minute.

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Only God Forgives Review: Restless Sinners

02/12/2013.Reading time 5 minutes.

CITY OF DEMONS Without a shadow of a doubt Only God Forgives is one of the most unsettling, relentlessly oppressive and utterly compelling films of the 21st century. It is not a typical Nicolas Winding-Refn picture, nor is it a typical Ryan Gosling flick, and using 2011’s Drive as our primary piece of empirical evidence, […]

Heaven’s Gate Review: The Revisionist War

25/11/2013.Reading time 5 minutes.

EPIC SENSIBILITIES Today, if you type ‘Heaven’s Gate’ into Google your first result will be for a Wikipedia entry regarding the San Diego ‘UFO based Doomsday cult’ of the same name. Sadly, similarly to many 1970’s cults, things went south in the form of a mass-suicide as opposed to the interstellar direction its members were […]

Netflix Film of the Week: The Game

21/11/2013.Reading time 4 minutes.

The FILM IN WORDS Netflix Film of the Week: helping you navigate the filmic minefield of the nation’s favourite video streaming service. Words: Brody Rossiter Twitter: @BrodyRossiter TIME TO PLAY THE GAME Nicholas Van Orton (Michael Douglas) is a wealthy investment banker. He moves vast amounts of money from here to there for individuals who […]

Streets of Fire Review: Hot in the City

10/11/2013.Reading time 3 minutes.

STREETS OF RAGE Those familiar with Walter Hill’s filmography will also be aware of how the director and screenwriter became an integral part of late seventies, early eighties cult moviemaking. With titles such as The Driver (1978), The Warriors (1979) and Southern Comfort (1981) Hill’s work has grasped hold of generations of viewers with its […]

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 […]