100 Discs of Christmas #2 – Frost/Nixon (2008)
Michael Sheen and Oscar nominee Frank Langella are on remarkable form as the title roles…
Author Barnaby Walter
Barnaby Walter
Second year BA Film & English Student. Watches too many films and enjoys good novels.
Total articles: 491100 Discs of Christmas #1 – Mansfield Park (1999)
Mansfield Park as told by Patricia Rozema is a little different to Mansfield Park as…
Review: Anna Karenina ★★★☆☆
After a foray into the world of the action thriller with 2011’s Hanna, director Joe…
Archive: The Life Before Her Eyes is a good film let down by an awful twist
Because I am strange and get very obsessive about the world of cinema, I sometimes…
100 Discs of Christmas: An Introduction
The 100 Discs of Christmas will be a long-running series of capsule film reviews of…
Review: Brave ★★★★☆
Disney and Pixar have set the bar so high with their animated offerings, it’s hard…
Review: The Bourne Legacy ★★★★★
The previous Bourne film, 2007’s The Bourne Ultimatum, was superb. This fourth instalment may even be…
Top Gun director Tony Scott dies
Film director Tony Scott has died at the age of 68 in Los Angeles after…
DVD review: The Monk ★★★☆☆
Steamy, weird and gorgeously shot, this is an admirable attempt to bring Matthew Lewis’s classic…
Film Comment: Suffer The Little Children Of Modern Horror Cinema
Barnaby Walter takes a look at brutal horror films A Serbian Film (2010) and Kill List (2011).
E4’s Revenge Highlights A Worrying Trend In American Teen Drama
Last year, US TV show 90210 did something radical. It shouldn’t be radical, but in…
Blu-ray & DVD Review: Amusement ★☆☆☆☆
To appreciate the light, one has to sample the dark, and unfortunately for me this…
Archive: Women Without Men is a brave and beautiful piece of Iranian feminist cinema
Women Without Men is the debut feature of Shirin Neshat, a brave and talented Iranian…
Archive: The Deep End is a rich and multilayered piece of filmmaking
A woman believes her 17 year-old son has murdered a man. She covers up the…