It is perhaps strange to say that a film about suicide can be funny. And yet that is exactly what A Long Way Down is. It’s based off the book, written by British author Nick Hornby, which shares the same name. It is, primarily, a dark comedy and yet also oddly touching. Credit must be […]

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I was long past the stage of feeling awkward going to the cinema by myself. I’d seen other people do it, and besides, at the end of the day, you’re going to see a film, not chat about the weather. However, I was not yet comfortable with going to a midnight screening, so instead I […]

Read More Captain America: The Winter Soldier

Before the Fast and Furious franchise actually started to make films that were more than simply about street racing, or drifting (Tokyo Drift: which is by far the weirdest one in that franchise and completely screws with the timeline), they were simple films that had one purpose: cars. And the seemingly obligatory sexist shot of […]

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I was looking forward to seeing this film when I saw the trailer: who doesn’t love films and who doesn’t love LEGO? It felt like the perfect pairing. It also had a pretty sweet soundtrack, not to mention the oh-so memorable ‘Everything is Awesome’. And to top it off, you had Chris Pratt voicing the […]

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I saw a small review for this in an issue of Empire magazine (here it is, helpfully archived online if you wish to check it out for yourself: http://www.empireonline.com/movies/non-stop/review/), and they did not rate it very well. So I thought I’d go and see it and formulate my own opinion. Despite the low rating (for those […]

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This is kind of fitting, given who I saw this film with. That Awkward Moment… when you go to the cinema by yourself for the first time. I wasn’t a huge fan of doing things by myself back then, so not taking anyone with me was immensely terrifying. I remember walking into the cinema, and […]

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Who doesn’t love Leonardo DiCaprio? Who doesn’t love money? If you’re not a fan of either, then you’re probably a nomad, who grew up in a cave. That was essentially my thinking when I saw the trailer for this film: it’s Leo, and it’s about a guy who makes lots of cash. And (this isn’t […]

Read More The Wolf of Wall Street

I had this idea, at the end of 2013, to set a New Year’s Resolution, but to do one that I could actually keep. Year in, year out, you hear people saying the same old thing of ‘New Year, new Me’, but never actually doing anything with their so-called ‘new identities’ past the first three […]

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