Film Review

They say you can tell a lot about a character by what they want. In Unicorn Store, what the protagonist Kit wants is a unicorn she can play checkers with. Let this be an early warning to those of you with a low tolerance for quirk. Unicorn…

Netflix’s latest original film The Silence has a strong air of déjà vu about it.  It's an almost greatest hits collection of the most popular sci-fi horror movies of the last two years, combining the best of their ideas to try to create…

Straight after pulling a McConnaughey in True Detective season three, Stephen Dorff leads this Irish drama with a supernatural twist. Best known for straight-to-DVD films, the odd collaboration with an auteur and of course Blade, the actor…

“It’s a vocation, something you have to do. You don’t have a choice really. You can’t just shake it off. You’ve just got to make it work because it has to.” This is how Andrew (John Morton), the protagonist of Irish dark comedy/thriller…

Manta Ray is the directorial debut of Phuttiphong Aroonpheng, an already acclaimed Thai cinematographer. Even if one didn't know this, watching his first feature makes it abundantly clear. He has a knack for creating memorable imagery,…

The River is a tough movie to review, a stiflingly uncomfortable drama about a stiflingly uncomfortable way of life. Released first in 1997 and written and directed by Tsai Ming-liang, the movie features no music and takes place almost…

Christopher Nolan described Inception as a heist film taking place in the architecture of the mind. Bi Gan's sophomore effort Long Day's Journey Into Night is a neo-noir with the same setting. While the noirs of the 40s and 50s always had…

One of the most heartfelt statements made by veteran comic book writer Frank Miller is: “I don't need to see sweat patches under Superman's arms. I want to see him fly.” Its meaning is apparent: Superhero fiction operates best when it leans…

"It’s funny how the colours of the real world only seem really real when you viddy them on the screen."- Alex DeLarge On April 5 this year, one of the most controversial and groundbreaking movies of the 20th-century returns to cinema…

"Selling my soul would be a lot easier if I could just find it” - Nikki Sixx. Rock biopics have become a popular form of cinema once again.  Entries in the genre can be quite hit-and-miss. Yet in my opinion, last year’s Bohemian Rhapsody,…