Spotlight is a biographical and historical drama turned thriller about the Boston Globe’s “Spotlight”, a team of investigative reporters who tackled alleged child abuse in the Catholic Church in Boston, exposing a religious, legal and governmental scandal that send shock waves across the world in early 2002. The Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage opened the issue of sexual […]
The Hateful Eight is a Quentin Tarantino film, which has drawn inspiration from The Thing and Reservoir Dogs. The crime drama mystery western is set more than a decade after the Civil War and follows a stagecoach, as a bounty hunter and his passengers find shelter in a cabin inhabited by some mysterious strangers.
The only movie I’ve seen about a cat is Garfield and that was truly horrible. I think we have a winner here though.
The Revenant is a gritty survival adventure masquerading as a grim western, which while brutal remains beautiful and spirited. We follow the tale of a frontiersman, whose desire for revenge gives him the strength he needs to carry on after being mauled by a bear and being left for dead by his hunting party in […]
Suicide Squad looks so damn epic, especially since it’s surprisingly set to Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody.
There is a lot of hype around the Zoolander No.2 movie and this is its best yet.
The Big Short is a film that follows four men, who predicted the impending economic collapse of the U.S. mortgage bond market in the mid-2000s. While director Adam McKay is best known for Anchorman and his affiliation with Will Ferrell, this biographical drama is mostly infotaining, only funny in a tragic kind of way and […]
Pencil in January 29 because that’s when we’ll get to see this peach on the big screen. Blood, guts and good story telling for days.
Star Wars: The Force Awakens is the long-awaited sequel that re-ignites the Star Wars Universe with a seventh episode. After a successful Star Trek reboot, Spielberg-in-the-making J.J. Abrams was entrusted to deliver a film that picks up the story decades after the original trilogy, now existing within the Disney empire under the banner of recent acquisition, […]
It’s not often that a movie demands you go and see it on the big screen, although this follow-up to the 1996 classic does just that.
Usually when Steven Spielberg hops on board things tend to end pretty well, with the first trailer for The BFG looking good.
The Gift is an elegant and unconventional mystery drama thriller that will surprise you. This is a fine production from the mind of Joel Edgerton, who writes, directs and stars. The story follows a married couple, who are forced to unearth dark secrets when they confront an old acquaintance, after relocating to a new city […]
Ocean Driven: The Chris Bertish Story is an inspiring surf documentary about self-belief, will power and the human spirit. Describing himself as a Waterman, Bertish has been instrumental in getting the film finished over the last 4 years, another achievement in itself, in addition to writing Stoked!, an inspiring story about courage, determination and the power […]
James Bond used to be about cheesy one-liners, full-blown chauvinism, ridiculous spy gadgets and over-the-top espionage action adventure. The franchise was overhauled with Casino Royale, going for a tougher blonde Bond and a deconstruction of 007 as we know it. Daniel Craig has been the poster boy for this modernisation and while it’s become more […]
It’s finally here, the trailer for Zoolander 2 that we’ve all been waiting for. Please don’t be a pile of turd.
Maggie isn’t a traditional zombie movie… it’s more of an art house zombie drama. There are no car chases across a post-apocalyptic America of zombie hordes and for the most part, everything takes place in one location. The pacing is slow, the style is understated to a fault, the focus is on drama and it […]
It looks like characters from one of Pixar’s biggest films are set to keep on swimming, a sequel set to hit our screens next year.
A Walk in the Woods is just like its movie title: breezy and understated. That’s the inherent charm of this adaptation of Bill Bryson’s novel, it’s an easy-going and amusing adventure drama that ambles along, never straying too far from the path. The path is the Appalachian trail, a 2000 mile hike and six month […]
A snippet of a Disney original has been released ahead of its premier in London next month.
Bridge of Spies is a biographical and historical drama thriller starring Tom Hanks and directed by Steven Spielberg. By now, you’ll already know if this film is for you, heralding two of the biggest and best names in Hollywood… ever.
The Kray twins, Ronnie and Reggie Kray, are two of the most notorious gangsters in history. The English crime bosses operated in the Lower East End of London in the ’50s and ’60s and were involved in armed robberies, racketeering, arson, assaults and murder. It’s surprising that in an age where Guy Ritchie Brit gangster […]
Leo’s new film could be THE one that gets him that little golden statue next year.
A woman is raped every 26 seconds in South Africa. That statistic doesn’t carry enough weight… even if you get Charlize Theron to follow it up with “Real Men Don’t Rape”. This isn’t surprising when you consider we’re living in a culture, where sexual harassment and coercion are viewed as normal male behaviour. In South […]
Black Mass is the true crime story of James Joseph “Whitey” Bulger, Jr., a notorious American criminal, who haunted the world’s most wanted list for years. The violent South Bostonian crime boss, and brother to a state senator, became an FBI informant to crack down on the Mafia family, whose operations were getting in the […]
The final chapter in the Hunger Games film saga is almost upon us, the latest trailer released shows that fans are in for quite the finish.
Check out the pair go back to back with some friendly guitar-playing competition and see the rockstar in Franco end all games.
Necktie Youth is a black-and-white drama with a documentary feel that attempts to capture the Zeitgeist of South African youth culture. We’re thrown into an experimental haze of young, affluent and disillusioned South Africans, whose journeys intersect with the deeply affecting live-stream suicide of a local Jo’burg girl.
The Martian is a Ridley Scott film. While the director is best known for Alien, and less so for Prometheus, he’s gone for a much more scientific space film, undertaking the adaptation of Andy Weir’s novel. It’s been accurately described as “Apollo 13 meets Cast Away” as the realism of the NASA lunar misadventure is coupled […]
Whether it’s dating supermodels or behaving like a petulant child on the field Cristiano Ronaldo is a headline-grabber par excellence. Now for the movie.
Rolling Stone magazine is a pop culture institution, which has sculpted the landscape of American media since its inception in 1967. Through the ages, from Hunter S. Thompson’s political reporting to becoming a cultural loudspeaker for youth-orientated lifestyle, getting the Annie Leibovitz treatment and gracing the cover with an interview story has been the stamp […]