That Cold Day in the Park, 1969. Directed by Robert Altman. Starring Sandy Dennis, Michael Burns and Lauana Anders. SYNOPSIS: A lonely middle-aged woman sees a homeless young man sitting in the park opposite her apartment, and in a moment of pity invites him in. Many would consider the late Robert Altman’s first recognised masterpiece to […]
Movie Review – Cemetery of Splendor (2016)
Cemetery of Splendor, 2016. Directed by Apichatpong Weerasethakul. Starring Banlop Lomnoi, Jenjira Pongpas, Jarinpattra Rueangram and Sakda Kaewbuadee. SYNOPSIS: A group of soldiers in a small town on the Mekong River in northern Thailand are struck with a bizarre sleeping illness. Apichatpong Weerasethakul has brought Thai art cinema to the forefront in the past two decades through […]
Movie Review – Lilith’s Awakening (2016)
Lilith’s Awakening, 2016. Directed by Monica Demes. Starring Steven Kennevan, Sam Garles, Sophia Woodward, Barbara Eugenia, Matthew Lloyd Wilcox. SYNOPSIS: A sexually repressed service station employee is bored of her marriage and seeks to embrace her dark side. Lucy (Sophia Woodward) finds marital life with husband Jonathon (Sam Garles) to be unfulfilling and monotonous. Jonathon’s […]
Orange Is the New Black Season 4 Episode 1 Review
Kirsty Capes reviews the first episode of Orange Is the New Black season 4… Everyone’s favourite criminals are back in the highly anticipated fourth installment of Netflix’s most popular original series from Jenji Kohan. With plenty of plot threads in need of tying up after season 3’s cliffhanger ending, season 4 begins, unlike any of the […]
Comic Book Review – Beast Wagon #4
Kieran Fisher reviews Beast Wagon #4… Chapter Four – Gluttire. Capacities are reached. Captivities are breached. The penultimate issue of the critically acclaimed British Comic Award nominated series by Owen Michael Johnson & John Pearson, with letters by Colin Bell Beast Wagon is easily the strangest comic book series of the year so far. It’s also […]
Movie Review – Barbershop: The Next Cut (2016)
Barbershop: The Next Cut (a.k.a. Barbershop: A Fresh Cut) (2016) Directed by Malcolm D. Lee Starring Ice Cube, Robert Teitel, Cedric the Entertainer, Regina Hall, Sean Patrick Thomas, Eve, Anthony Anderson, Jazsmin Lewis-Kelley, Common, Nicki Minaj, Margot Bingham, Lamorne Morris, Deon Cole, Reggie Brown, Utkarsh Ambudkar, Tyga, J.B. Smoove, Deon Cole SYNOPSIS Employees at the barbershop […]
Movie Review – Race (2016)
Race (2016) Directed by Stephan James Starring Stephan James, Jason Sudeikis, Jeremy Irons, Carice van Houten, William Hurt, Eli Goree, Shanice Banton, Barnaby Metschurat, Glynn Turman, Amanda Crew, Adam Zwicker. SYNOPSIS This biopic retells the historic moment where a young African-American athlete Jesse Owens came to defy the Nazi’s Aryan ideology. Anybody familiar with their […]
Movie Review – Where You’re Meant To Be (2016)
Where You’re Meant To Be, 2016. Directed by Paul Fegan. Starring Aidan Moffat and Sheila Stewart. SYNOPSIS: Documentary charting the progress of a Scottish artist as he attempts to rewrite his country’s oldest songs. “Folk music needs a good editor” Aidan Moffat says at one point during this heartfelt and incisive documentary. It’s just one […]
Movie Review – Warcraft (2016)
Warcraft, 2016. Directed by Duncan Jones. Starring Travis Fimmel, Paula Patton, Ben Foster, Dominic Cooper, Toby Kebbell, Ben Schnetzer, Robert Kazinsky, Clancy Brown, Daniel Wu, Ruth Negga, Anna Galvin, and Glenn Close. SYNOPSIS: The peaceful realm of Azeroth stands on the brink of war as its civilization faces a fearsome race of invaders: orc warriors fleeing […]
Countdown to Spectre – The Spy Who Loved Me Review
Ricky Church continues his countdown to Spectre with a review of The Spy Who Loved Me… James Bond’s previous adventure in The Man with the Golden Gun was a low point for the series that relied too heavily on camp and comedy to succeed. While The Spy Who Loved Me continues Bond’s campy trend, it […]
