Film

In 1993, the Sicilian mafia kidnapped eleven-year-old Giuseppe de Matteo, the son of a former mafia member-turned-informer and held him captive for over two years before murdering him. While the real-life details are not prerequisites to…

Yo it's Alison Spittle and I'm picking the best people to have quick words with at the biggest arts festival in the world, Edinburgh fringe festival. First on my trails is TV writer and comedian, Bisha K. Ali. Bisha co-presents GrownupLand…

Looking at the box-office records for 2018 thus far, you'd think that Hollywood was having a great year. They've had three hit films gross over 1 billion US dollars, a monumental feat when compared to the hugely disappointing summer of…

In a world of serious cinematic superheroes, there’s one team who save the day and save room for dessert. Cue awesome dramatic music. Enter Teen Titans Go! To the Movies, a big screen outing for the stars of the Cartoon Network show.…

Mudbound didn’t do what they’d hoped it would. Netflix won’t let that happen again. It’s not easy to gauge just how well Mudbound did or didn’t do at the Academy Awards this year. After a strong reception at 2017’s Sundance, the period…

Graphic designer Chip Kidd once wrote that the central spark of genius in the premise of the caped crusader is that Bruce Wayne dresses like a demon to do acts of good while the Joker is a clown (designed to make us forget our cares) who…

Animal House turns forty this year and it was the paradigm of an entirely new genre: the college movie. The movie is tasteless, but that’s part of its message.  The first of a new iteration has the most fascinating layers to it because what…

This past weekend's Comic-Con in San Diego saw the first footage of M. Night Shyamalan's follow-up to both 2016's Split & 2000's Unbreakable. Glass will in released January 2019 yet the trailer released has stoked interest in one of the…

Curracloe, 1997 In the summer of 1997 I was 14 years old. School was out and as June crept into July the weather began turning fine, into what I might now refer to as “halcyon days”, where I hadn’t a care in the world. Wexford had…

After watching the newest (partial) season of Arrested Development I want to preface this review of the second reboot by stating the original show is the greatest sitcom of all time. Its double and triple entendres, the innumerable cultural…