By Ben Hooper. Saddle up in the ol’ pick-up truck for a romantic ride across the Lone Star state, y’all. Don’t be fooled by Terrence Malick’s name in the credits (as an executive producer), this has made-for-TV melodrama through it like Brighton through rock. In this quasi-Oedipal tale set in smalltown Texas, a
By Dominic Preston. Selma is, quite frankly, astonishing. Far from the overly sentimental Oscar-bait it might at first appear, is startling, bold and revolutionary. It’s a visceral gut-punch of a film, concerned with making the audience feel the urgency of the injustice at its core, and the charismatic power of Martin
By Daryl Bär In many ways Left Behind could be best described as Vic Armstrong’s Battlefield Earth although I’m not sure which film I’d be doing more of a disservice. When the screenplay isn’t giving the audience “bland”, we’re teased with “unintentionally hilarious” before having an intense amount of wooden performances
By Maahin Akhlaque. Nicholas Cage films seems to come and go without much notice, and I don't tend to watch them, so I don't think I'm the intended audience for his latest, Dying of the Light, however it could speak to some audience members. Cage stars as Evan Lake, an aging CIA
By Amelia Forsbrook. 2 Stars Stars, stripes and the Union Jack fly proudly above an Egyptian dig, as Western archaeologists search for gold in the sand. It may be seventy-odd years before franchise-friendly Larry Daley (Ben Stiller) settles in for his last night at the museum, but in this madcap rummage around Ancient
