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Posted 1:53pm Sunday 20th September 2015

Classic "Any similarity to real persons or events is not coincidental. It is INTENTIONAL.” With one of film’s most baldly provocative opening statements, Costa-Gavras offers a thriller that hits the ground running. The audience is thrown full force into a poorly veiled Read more...

Far from the Madding Crowd

Posted 1:43pm Sunday 12th July 2015

Rating: 2/5 The success of Nicolas Winding Refn’s operatic kick in the teeth with Bronson and Tomas Alfredson’s hushed, emotionally muzzled Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy has given audiences high expectations when it comes to Scandinavian directors and the films they are tied Read more...

Samba

Posted 2:08pm Sunday 26th April 2015

Rating: 4/5 People often say the best filmmaking is the sort you don’t notice, where you can just get involved with the characters and story; while that’s not necessarily true, in Samba this philosophy works beautifully. The film’s opening sequence shows the buzz of a tacky, Read more...

X+Y

Posted 3:11pm Sunday 29th March 2015

Rating: 4/5 X+Y is a smart drama that rides the fine line between movie and TV-drama-of-the-week by juxtaposing the life-changing events thrust upon the film’s young autistic protagonist and maths genius, Nathan Ellis (Asa Butterfield), with the everyday hassles of his condition for those Read more...

50 Shades of Grey

Posted 4:35pm Sunday 22nd February 2015

Rating: 0/5 W hen student, Anastasia Steele (Dakota Johnson), improbably interviews icy billionaire Christian Grey (Jamie Dornan), she finds herself trapped in a downward spiral of kinky sex and utter tediousness. We’re unfortunately in for a ride too, one that would send insomniacs to Read more...