Niall Anderson watches Lenny Abrahamson’s hotly tipped captivity drama Room
Category Archives: New Releases
Exit, Molested by a Bear
Niall Anderson girds his loins, then girds them again, for his second snowy revisionist western in as many days, The Revenant.
Dud Meridian
Niall Anderson struggles bravely with Tarantino’s sadistic Western epic The Hateful Eight
Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens
MrMoth sits in a darkened space and listens to an old story told through fresh language.
Breaking Into The Forbidden Room, or Bits Of Life*
Bonus post! What did Paul Duane find in Guy Maddin’s tesseract of cinema?
EVERYTHING..
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Swing While You’re Whingeing
In anticipation of Frank Sinatra’s centenary, Niall Anderson watches Alex Gibney’s four-hour documentary on the singer’s life and work
I Never Promised You A Stainless-Steel Delicatessen
James Bond is BACK!, to the sound of ringing box-office tills everywhere. Ricky Young ponders the latest from the franchise that refuses to hang up its Walther and do the decent thing.
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Still the Flea Circus: The Complete Jurassic Park
Jurassic World arrived on DVD during the London Film Festival, so Mr Moth decided to have a little festival of his own and watched all the Jurassic Parks to date. Here are his findings.
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Mostly Under Milk Wood
Kevin Allen’s new film of Dylan Thomas’s beloved radio play is in cinemas this week. Your reviewer is theTramp.
To begin at the beginning: It is spring, moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black, the cobblestreets silent and the hunched, courters’-and-rabbits’ wood limping invisible down to the sloeblack, slow, black, crowblack, fishingboatbobbing sea.
Beasts of No Distribution
If an Oscar-bait movie falls in the limited release forest, does it make a sound on Netflix? Your guide to this question, but without the horribly tortured metaphors, is the mysterious Ron Swanson.
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