2013 in Film
Tom Bangay takes a look back at the top ten films of 2013…
Browsing: On Screen
House of Whipcord
Our resident obscure – the films, not the man – film man, Steve Thompson, stumbles…
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Cumberbitches, rejoice! Just as 2012 was The Year of the Fassbender, so Benedict Cumberbatch has…
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
Franchises are hard. On the good ship Harry Potter, they had to anchor what they…
Philomena
“Ah-ha!” An exclamation that you won’t hear in this film. In Michael Winterbottom’s sublime The…
Gravity
There aren’t many things that are genuinely frightening in the cinema. Horror films? Forget it.…
The Artist: Live in Concert
The Royal Albert Hall will open its doors this New Year’s Eve for the first…
Filth
“Filth is a somewhat hysterical ride through the misdeeds and psychosis of Edinburgh detective sergeant Bruce Robertson (James McAvoy), a repellent policeman in the tradition of Bad Lieutenant.”
Only God Forgives
“It’s horrible people doing unspeakable things to each other, slowly.” Tom Bangay reviews Nicolas Winding Refn’s latest film…
Aguirre, Wrath of God
You step off the dilapidated coach, warm trade winds kicking at the fedora you haggled…
Review: The Great Gatsby
Baz Luhrmann’s adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic novel The Great Gatsby is like a…