Vicki Cole

In Review: The Inside on DVD

by Vicki Cole 27 March 2013

When five female friends break into an abandoned warehouse to celebrate a birthday, the celebration quickly turns sour when three violent hobos disturb the party, terrifying and violating the women. Unbeknownst to all, there is something even nastier lurking in the warehouse.

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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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London Film Festival: End of Watch

by Vicki Cole 10 October 2012

Penned and directed by the hand of Training Day writer, David Ayer, End of Watch doesn’t stray too far and remains focused on the lives of Los Angeles Police Division officers. End of Watch documents the activities that lead to Officers Taylor (Jake Gyllenhaal) and Zavala (Michael Peña ) becoming the target of America’s most [...]

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London Film Festival: Celeste and Jesse Forever

by Vicki Cole 26 September 2012

Celeste and Jesse Forever seemingly tells the classic tale of girl meets boy, girl and boy fall in love, girl and boy get married. However, we are made aware that there’s more to this particular love story when happily ever after takes place before the title credits have ended.

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FrightFest The 13th Review: Tower Block

by Vicki Cole 30 August 2012

Title cards inform the audience that although once described as popular living thanks to the views they afforded, tower blocks have now become a breeding ground for crime and violence. Tower Block tells the story of the top floor residence of Serenity House, one such high rise, and their battle for survival from a relentless [...]

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FrightFest The 13th Review: Chained

by Vicki Cole 29 August 2012

Chained is very much grounded in exploring the darker side of human nature, and most notably, the idea of how monsters are made.

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East End Film Festival 2012: Arena: Amy Winehouse

by Vicki Cole 27 June 2012

Courtesy of the British press Amy Winehouse will forever be iconized, not as the smokey toned singer whose painfully personal lyrics had the ability to touch anyone who has ever loved and lost, but rather for her willowy frame, that beehive and the thick lashings of eyeliner; as the quirky-looking young woman who, very publicly, battled and lost to her [...]

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BAFTA’s Oversight

by Vicki Cole 17 January 2012

By Vicki Cole Today marked the announcement of the 2012 BAFTA Film Awards nominations identifying and saw what was, arguably, one of the past year’s most exceptional performances snubbed from the top acting accolades.

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Hong Kong Film Week: Echoes of the Rainbow (2010)

by Vicki Cole 27 September 2011

By Vicki Cole Echoes of the Rainbow tells the story of a working family in Hong Kong during the 1960s, looking through the eyes of an eight year old boy nicknamed ‘Big Ears’ by his friends and family. He dreams that one day he will be an astronaut. ‘Echoes’ is director Alex Law’s love letter [...]

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In Review: The Woman (Film 4 FrightFest)

by Vicki Cole 30 August 2011

By Vicki Cole Lucky McKee follows 2009’s The Offspring with the story of Chris Cleek: a lawyer who rules his family with an iron fist and becomes transfixed with a feral woman he stumbles across whilst hunting.

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In Review: Mr Popper’s Penguins (2011)

by Vicki Cole 11 August 2011

By Vicki Cole Tom Popper (Jim Carrey) is a successful real estate developer whose dedication to his work has seemingly been at the cost of his marriage and family.  When he turns his attentions to acquiring Mrs Van Gundy’s (Angela Lansbury’s) Central Park restaurant, a place filled with tradition and family memories, he is forced [...]

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