FILM: A Dozen Summers
Rating: A Dozen Summers is a micro budget (£20,000) film from writer, director and producer Kenton Hall who has made a very ambitious film for his first feature. As it opens we are greeted by the warm, familiar voice of…
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FILM: Pixels
Rating: The concept of Pixels – that aliens are sending 80’s arcade games to attack earth – is a pretty solid and interesting idea. Unfortunately, the film itself is neither solid nor interesting. We begin in the 1980s (cue nostalgia) with…
FILM: Fantastic Four
Rating: Fantastic Four? More like Fantastic Snore! (I’m sure I won’t be the first or last to use such cheap word play with the title) but unfortunately this remake is a dull attempt to reboot this Marvel comic. The beginning…
FILM: Southpaw
I have no doubt that one day the phenomenally talented Jake Gyllenhaal will win an Oscar however I’ll hedge a bet it won’t be for Antoine Fuqua’s daft, cliche ridden boxing movie. A rehash of a dozen or so better films,…
INTERVIEW: Andrew Tiernan
Known for his numerous television credits, including Prime Suspect, Luther, and Life on Mars, Andrew Tiernan is also a regular feature on big-blockbuster affairs like 300. For his latest movie Dragonfly, the recognisable actor took up roles on both sides…
FILM: Dragonfly
Rating: Dragonfly was written and directed by Andrew Tiernan, who also found time to play one of the lead roles in the film. It would be easy for Tiernan to fall into an ego trap, but he straddles the triumvirate of roles…
FILM: The Diary of a Teenage Girl @ East London Film Festival
The Diary of a Teenage Girl is a coming of age drama based on the novel by Phoebe Gloeckner, which is loosely based on Gloeckner’s own life. We jump right in with Minnie (Bel Powley) as she announces the loss…
FILM: Magic Mike XXL
HE SAID The sequel to Steven Soderbergh’s 2012 smash hit male stripper dramedy is that rare beast, a follow up that is almost completely different in tone to it’s predecessor. Much more lightweight and frothy, this road movie caper is actually…
FILM: Amy
Amy is a documentary about the life of the late Amy Winehouse, directed by Asif Kapadia (the BAFTA award winning filmmaker behind the incredible Senna). What Kapadia and the creators of Amy do, much like they did in Senna, is…
FILM: That Sugar Film
Sugar has been the target of a lot of bad press in the news recently, with many scientists holding sugar accountable to the obesity epidemic both here and in the United States. For the first time it is widely acknowledged…