The Great Hip Hop Hoax
This is a documentary about two Scottish rappers who, after being shunned by the music industry, created elaborate personas of edgy LA hip hop stars to improve their chances at […]
Category Archives: New Releases
Filth
Perhaps the best thing to happen to British cinema over the last couple of years is the way in which James McAvoy seems to have replaced Ewan McGregor. Here McAvoy […]
Prisoners
Child abduction. Rubbish isn’t it? And it’s about time someone made a film about it. Preferably starring Hugh Jackman and Jake Gyllenhaal. Ideally where Jackman plays a father whose child […]
Rock and Roll’s Greatest Failure: Otway the Movie
You may remember John Otway from his 1974 number 27 single “Really Free” and his 2002 number 9 single “Bunsen Burner”. If you haven’t, it’s because in between these moderate successes, Otway’s […]
Blue Jasmine
After almost a decade of hopping around Europe, with varying degrees of success, Woody Allen returns to the USA for his billionth film, Blue Jasmine. Blue Jasmine is about […]
Rush
No, it’s not a biopic of mad American shock-jock Rush Limbaugh, played by Naomi Watts. Nor is it a rockumentary about Canadian prog outfit Rush, played by Naomi Watts. Rush […]
The Way Way Back
The Way Way Back belongs in the “crap title, decent film” school of cinema, alongside Pacific Rim. Written and directed by Nat Faxon and Jim Rash (who also star), this is a coming-of-age […]
You’re Next
I wish I’d been around in the ’80s. Sure there’d be Thatcherism and bad hair to contend with, but there’d be a new slasher film in the cinema every week. […]
What Maisie Knew
Directed by Scott McGehee and David Siegel, this new drama is a modernisation of a novel by Henry James. Onata Aprile plays Maisie, a child stuck in the middle of her […]
Elysium
It’s been a sad summer for cinema. Several major Hollywood films have slumped at the box office like The Lone Ranger, After Earth and White House Down while those that have […]
