Netflix Film of the Week: Locke

18/02/2015.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.

Rabid Review: Bodily Material

12/02/2015.Reading time 5 minutes.

Words: Brody Rossiter Twitter: @BrodyRossiter CATCH ME IF YOU CAN “The body is the first fact of human existence for me… my imagery tends to be body orientated, my narratives tend to be body orientated.” David Cronenberg Cult Canadian auteur, David Cronenberg, forged an illustrious career upon a grotesque yet deeply layered bed of […]

The Killing Blu-ray Review: The Art of the Heist

05/02/2015.Reading time 4 minutes.

Words: Brody Rossiter Twitter: @BrodyRossiter A MEATBALL WITH GRAVY Often cited as one of Hollywood’s most ambitious examples of the film noir genre, Stanley Kubrick’s third feature, The Killing (1956), is a tough and thrilling heist movie, sock full of razor sharp dialogue and murky personalities. Opening with narrated introductions to Kubrick’s ensemble of deadbeats, […]

The Overnighters Review: Not Home Anymore

04/02/2015.Reading time 6 minutes.

Words: Brody Rossiter Twitter: @BrodyRossiter LAND OF OPPORTUNITY Fear is a potent and unrelenting emotion. In some cases fear is a useful tool; a means of recognising and avoiding the dangers which lie in wait. In other cases fear falsifies a belief, creating an irrational suspicion of that which doesn’t wish to, or ultimately cannot, […]

Netflix Film of the Week: Blue Ruin

14/01/2015.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.

Whiplash Review: The Sound and the Fury

13/01/2015.Reading time 6 minutes.

Words: Brody Rossiter Twitter: @BrodyRossiter BLOOD, SWEAT & DRUMSTICKS Talent is a wonderful thing. No matter how great or insubstantial we may consider our own personal talents to be, they ultimately set us apart from one another. However, whether it is a drunken party trick or an expert commandment of a trade, sometimes talents are […]