Imagine doctors told you have 30 days to live. What do you do? Slip into a state of denial? Tell them they’ve made a mistake? Spend your cash on cheap hookers and expensive drugs? Rodeo Romeo, Ron Woodroof (Matthew McConaughey) did just that when he was told to prepare for his pending doom after catching … Continue reading
1: Frances Ha happened Frances Ha is everything Bridget Jones wanted to be if only she could stop counting calories and worrying about men. It bashed another nail in the Women Can’t Be Funny coffin with a Greta Gerwig shaped hammer with kooky class and the hipster sass. Any woman who’s had a relationship with a fellow … Continue reading
With more highlights than Paris Hilton after a trip to Toni & Guy, choosing the best bits from this year’s London Film Festival was a tricky task. Talk about 1st world problems. From Oct 9th – 20th, in-between sleeping and eating, the only thing taking up time was sitting in the dark watching films with … Continue reading
A film about Walt Disney, made by Disney, runs the risk of coming across like a self-congratulatory pig in its own muck, but Saving Mr. Banks has managed to save its own bacon by actually, being very good. It took 20 years for Walt Disney (Tom Hanks) to convince Pamela Travers (Emma Thompson) to sign … Continue reading
12 Years A Slave is the unsettling true story of Solomon Northup as he’s swiped from his life as a family man in 19th century New York, and shoved into the shackles of slavery in the Deep South. Acclaimed British Director Steve McQueen still has a fetish for Michael Fassbender (Steve directed Fassbender in Shame … Continue reading
Peter Landesman’s first stab at directing surely won’t be his last. Not with new film Parkland on the top of his IMDB page. The dramatic film on the assassination of JFK, spins the well-told tale with a refreshing panache and left the audience at the London Film Festival premiere in need of a good sit down … Continue reading
When Nick (Jim Broadbent) and Meg (Lindsay Duncan), spend a weekend in Paris to celebrate 30 years of wedlock, their romantic illusions are splintered after realising the hotel once used for their days of courting is less romantic than remembered. Determined to make the most of it, Meg drags her reluctant husband along for a … Continue reading
You’d be hard fetched to find a film with someone from Flight Of The Conchords, American Pie and Hollyoaks, but somehow the brains behind Austenland have managed to make these planets collide. It’s as if they’ve played Chatroulette with the entire database of IMDB. Or maybe it was BOGOF on the casting agent’s books, and … Continue reading
Bruce Robertson (James McAvoy) is a detective sergeant who’s about as PC as a priest in a porn shop. As Bruce ticks his way down the seven deadly sins list, it’s clear he’s not only struggling with where to get his next hedonistic hit, but also with the demons picking at his fraying mental health. … Continue reading
You don’t have to like baseball to appreciate the triumph in this true story. 42 isn’t so much about which team won on the pitch, but more about who came up top in the struggle for equality during a time when America was coming to terms with black and white being equal. Major League Baseball … Continue reading
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