Dirty Pretty Things
Okwe (Chiwetel Ejiofor) is a doctor by trade, but since illegally migrating to the UK he works as a cab driver and a hotel night security officer, living in fear […]
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A Single Man
A Single Man follows an English professor called George (Colin Firth) as he attempts to live his life following the death of his partner Jim (Matthew Goode). A moving drama, […]
Duel- An analogy for the internet troll
Every time I watch Spielberg’s superb debut Duel I’m blown away by the brilliance of its simplicity. The whole film is essentially one long car chase and pure suspense from start to […]
Avatar gets a sequel, and another…and another
We recently got an official announcement, after months of speculation, that the long-awaited Avatar sequel will be followed by not one but two more films, but is this a good […]
Doubt
At a solemn, grey Catholic school in 1960s America, the feared principal Sister Aloysius Beauvier (Meryl Streep) suspects the parish priest, Father Flynn (Philip Seymour Hoffman), of behaving inappropriately towards a student, […]
Demolition Man
Warning: this film is going to take a bit of explaining. Demolition Man was made in 1993. Its opening is set in the then-future of 1996, where a rogue cop […]
The Wolverine
Everyone’s favourite crime fighting mutant is back for another solo outing, after 2009’s X-Men Origins: Wolverine. An isolated Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) travels to visit the deathbed of Japan’s most successful […]
Sea of Love
It seems almost boring to review an Al Pacino film and praise his performance, but in Sea of Love he once again shows why he has a reasonable claim to […]
Dracula Has Risen From the Grave
When a Monsignor of the Catholic Church visits the town that sits in the shadow of Dracula’s castle, he inadvertently resurrects the monster, and severely pisses him off by attaching […]
Shame
Steve McQueen explores sex addiction in this 2011 film starring Michael Fassbender. Shame is like a stripped back American Psycho. Its main character, Brandon (Fassbender) lives in a minimalist yet […]
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