Review: The Dirties – “A brattish blast of punkoid brilliance”
If we imagine modern film as being roughly where music was in the mid-70s, then the equivalents of that era’s engorged sauropods of rock...
Read MoreReview: The Two Faces of January
The Two Faces of January represents the latest venture for a genre that has lost its way in recent years – the noir thriller. With so few...
Read MoreReview: Fading Gigolo
“Am I your friend?” “You’re more than a friend!” “And you want to turn me into a ho?” Coming out just as all the is-he-isn’t-he sex...
Read MoreReview: The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet
Synopsis: After designing the world’s first perpetual motion machine T.S. Spivet is selected for the prestigious Baird award. Unbeknownst...
Read MoreReview: Only Lovers Left Alive
About: Only Lovers Left Alive is a 2013 British-German romantic drama vampire film written and directed by Jim Jarmusch, starring Tom...
Read MoreReview: Pompeii
Synopsis: Jon Snow (Kit Harrington) is a slave-gladiator. Son to a murdered dad; God to a murdered dog; Horse Whisperer to a murdered...
Read MoreReview: Blue Ruin – “An engrossing and unpredictable thriller”
Insouciant, awkward and punctuated by violence; Blue Ruin is an engrossing and unpredictable thriller from Jeremy Saulnier, who not only...
Read MoreReview: Transcendence
Synopsis: Science folks Johnny Depp, Rebecca Hall and Paul Bettany are all about the further development of scientific wonders and they’ve...
Read MoreReview: The Double
I haven’t really dabbled all that much in Russian literature but if Richard Ayoade’s moderately loose adaptation of Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s...
Read MoreReview: Divergent
So many dystopian America, female-lead, Young Adult book adaptations to watch and so little time.Divergent, based on Veronica Roth’s novel...
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