In Review

In Review: Think like A Man on DVD

by Maryann O'Connor 22 October 2012

The self-help adaptation usually has the defining feature of being just as earnest and drippy as the book it’s based on; perhaps even drippier if Hollywood has its extra-rosy tinted dollar-sign glasses on and J-Lo on speeddial. So, the good news about Think like A Man is that the drip factor is fairly reduced, a [...]

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In Review: The Soul of Flies on DVD

by Joshua Searle 19 October 2012

The Soul of Flies is the debut feature from Jonathan Cenzual Burley and tells the tale of two brothers who, after receiving a letter from the father that abandoned them, make a journey across the Spanish countryside to attend his funeral. Along the way they meet thieves, watermelon-throwing locals and a suicidal narcoleptic, stopping each [...]

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In Review: Ginger & Rosa

by Silvia Felce 19 October 2012

Ginger & Rosa, the much awaited new film from Sally Potter, talks about teenage friendships, political beliefs and family crisis. Opening with some chilling footage of Hiroshima and the birth of two girls, the film moves straight to 1962, at the beginning of the Cuban missile crisis, where those two girls are now teenagers Ginger [...]

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In Review: Shut Up and Play the Hits on DVD

by Adam Glasspool 18 October 2012

On April 2 nd 2011, alternative electro-punk (sort of) band LCD Soundsystem called time on their career with an epic, four hour concert at Madison Square Gardens in their hometown of New York. Half celebration, half funeral, the concert was recorded for posterity by eleven cameras and directed by Will Lovelace and Dylan Southern (helmers [...]

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In Review: Paranormal Activity 4

by Mark Searby 18 October 2012

The “found footage” films have been big business for the horror industry and none more so than the Paranormal Activity franchise, which returns with part 4 in the series. Paranormal Activity 3 (2011) reinvigorated the films at the box office, so sticking with the “if it ain’t broke then don’t fix it” method, Ariel Schulman [...]

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In Review: Rosewood Lane on DVD

by Maryann O'Connor 17 October 2012

The first few minutes of Rosewood Lane would suggest that the events to follow will form the basis of a pretty decent cheesy horror. Radio talkshow therapist Sonny Blake (Rose McGowan) is summoned by the police to her father’s house, her childhood home, where his lifeless form has been found sprawled at the bottom of [...]

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In Review: Ruby Sparks

by Patrick Harley 16 October 2012

“There has to be space in a relationship, otherwise it’s like we’re the same person.” It might seem like a line from any romantic comedy, but when delivered by the eponymous love interest of Ruby Sparks, the sentiment is significantly magnified. With Ruby (Zoe Kazan) having been somehow brought to life by the writing of [...]

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London Film Festival: Reality

by Silvia Felce 15 October 2012

Reality could not be more different from Matteo Garrone’s previous film, mafia drama Gomorrah, although it does share the same neorealist aesthetic, showing once again another crude and sincere image of Italy.

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London Film Festival: Antiviral

by Vicki Cole 15 October 2012

Brandon Cronenberg’s directorial debut takes us to an unidentified future where society’s obsession with ‘celebrity’ has reached the depraved extremes of paying to be injected with their favourite celebrities’ illnesses and diseases.

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In Review: Hotel Transylvania (3D)

by Maryann O'Connor 12 October 2012

Count Dracula maintains that he built Hotel Transylvania so all his monster fiends could have a place to be themselves without fear of reprise from flaming-torch waving humans but like any other dad, he just wants to keep his daughter locked up and ‘safe’ from the world. On Mavis Dracula’s 118 th birthday her daddy [...]

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In Review: Looper

by Patrick Harley 11 October 2012

In the year 2074, time travel is not only possible, but also highly illegal and used solely by criminal organisations to dispose of their enemies without a trace. With the unwanted party apprehended, all they have to do is send them back thirty years and have a waiting assassin shoot them on the spot. It [...]

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