2015 has been an undeniably excellent year for film. From blockbusters, comedies, indie flicks and animations to huge franchises adding to their catalogue, there has been no shortage of screen worthy flicks to cultivate conversation and make for endless cinema…
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…
Rating: Two things are irrefutable: Amy Schumer can write and she can act; expertly carrying this biting, consistently hilarious rom-com on her shoulders. Amy Townsend (Schumer) is a thirty-something writer in New York working at monthly ‘lifestyle’ magazine Snuff (where…
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…
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…
Rating: HE SAID In Ricki and The Flash, Meryl Streep plays ageing rocker Ricki Rendazzo, a woman who abandoned her husband and three kids years ago to pursue a career as musician. Now in her 60s, Ricki’s dream of making…
Rating: Inside Out is the latest release from Disney Pixar, directed by Pete Doctor, the man who brought us Up, Toy Story and Monsters Inc. Inside Out follows the characters of Joy, Sadness, Fear, Anger and Disgust, all of whom…
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…
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…
The film begins as a new boy (Rollo Skinner) and his parents move in next door to Dani (Evie Playfoot-Orme) and Louisa (Joanne Gale). The girls soon become obsessed with this boy despite only catching glimpses of his arms through…