Labor Day, 2013. Directed by Jason Reitman.Starring Kate Winslet, Josh Brolin, Gattlin Griffith and Tobey Maguire. SYNOPSIS: Escaped prisoner Frank Chambers (Brolin) convinces depressed single mother Adele (Winslet) toharbour him from the police over Labor Day weekend in this all too sweet drama from Jason Reitman. Labor Day is a difficult film to review as […]
Vikings Season 2 – Episode 4 Recap
Megan Applegate recaps the fourth episode of Vikings Season 2… So, I’ll just come right out and say that the only thing that ruined this week’s episode, which featured (finally!) a reunion I’d been dying for, was a very-near dying of a favorite character and a crucifixion. But more on that later. Episode 4 starts […]
The Following Season 2 – Episode 10 Review
Matt Smith reviews episode 10 of The Following season 2… In the previous season of The Following, the attempted parallels between producers and the show itself was the use of Joe Carroll as a writer. He’d come up with a plan, which actually involved writing a story, and he’d meticulously organised and thought about the […]
Video Game Review – Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes
Chris Cooper reviews Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes… For nearly 15 years now Metal Gear Solid has been my favourite game, top of a list including such greats as Super Mario Bros 3, Sonic the Hedgehog, Half Life, and RoboCop vs Terminator, amongst others. It laid the foundations for a series that I have followed […]
From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series – Episode 3 Review
Luke Owen looks at the latest episode of From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series…. Last week’s episode, Blood Runs Thick, was the first step towards making this show feel like it was heading somewhere. It wasn’t just a remake of what had come before it (like the first episode) and instead added new layers to […]
Anne Hathaway open to Catwoman return
With Christopher Nolan bringing the curtain down on his Dark Knight Trilogy in 2012 with the release of The Dark Knight Rises, Warner Bros. wasted little time in rebooting its Batman franchise, announcing last year that Ben Affleck will suit up alongside Henry Cavill’s Superman and Gal Gadot’s Wonder Woman for the 2016 Man of […]
Bates Motel Season 2 – Episode 4 Review
Alice Rush reviews the fourth episode of Bates Motel Season 2… The tension behind the scenes of White Pine Bay has always been quietly but surely bubbling away in the background but this week on Bates Motel sees some dramatic shifts in the status quo as well as seeing the Bates trying to come to […]
Special Features – Where the cinematic family meets the whimsical fabrication of reality: The cinema of Wes Anderson
Paul Risker on the cinema of Wes Anderson…Known for brandishing his pen and camera to create a quirky brand of cinema, with the check-in date upon us for the whimsical delights of his eighth feature film The Grand Budapest Hotel, the imaginative auteur Wes Anderson looks to bring his cinema full circle. From Royal Tenenbaums […]
From TV to Feature: Veronica Mars
Brandon Engel on Veronica Mars’ journey from TV to feature… Veronica Mars has returned, and this time we can only hope there won’t be another seven year hiatus before we see her again. Granted, while the shift from television to film was more than bit rocky, it did take far too long for Warner Bros. […]
Elementary Season 2 – Episode 15 Review
Matt Smith reviews the fifteenth of Elementary Season 2… Sherlock Holmes, as a detective, works best when he’s in a vacuum. Bereft of distraction, focusing on the job at hand, social niceties not getting in the way of his cold, hard logic. Personal issues shouldn’t come into it; otherwise they’ll pull him away from being, […]
