Review: The Riot Club
The Riot Club is uncomfortable, vile and seductive with performances (particularly by Sam Claflin) that overflow with sanctimoniousness, says Lewis Taplin.
Browsing: Cinema
Nostalgic News: A Streetcar Named Desire arrived in Hollywood 63 years ago today
A Streetcar Named Desire’s Hollywood adaption was first aired on this day in 1951.
Review: The Guest
With a true old school spirit and a captivating central performance, The Guest is a welcome shot in the arm for the horror genre…. if indeed it even is a horror film.
Review: Before I Go To Sleep
Before I Go To Sleep is an enticing domestic thriller with an inescapable nature that is irresistibly haunting, says Lewis Taplin.
Union Films: Autumn line-up released
The line-up for the Autumn term includes notable big blockbusters including the likes of Guardians of the Galaxy and Dawn of the Planet of the Apes.
Review: They Came Together
Flying at a million miles per hour and with a huge, never-ending cast of famous faces, it’s very much a film tailor-made for devoted old-school comedy lovers, says Ben Robins.
Review: Lucy
Lucy looks like a collation of scenes from a range of Besson films that had been cut, constructing an assemblage that is mainly nonsensical, but synchronously occasionally fun, says Lewis Taplin
Review: Sin City: A Dame To Kill For
It may not add up to all that much, it may feel like a less meaty version of the original, but the film is visually breathtaking, extremely violent and deliberately trashy fun, says Harrison Abbott.
Serena set for surprise UK release
The film stars Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper and will be released in October this year.
Review: Into The Storm
The film is all about the spectacle and it completely sacrifices in the process any chance of ever being even slightly affecting, says Ben Robins.
Film round-up: 25/08/14 – 31/08/14
Forget the gloominess of the weather and the end-of-Summer feeling; pick a film and hide yourself away in cinemas this week.
Review: What If
There is nothing to sink your teeth into; the film is forgettable and is likely to become lost in an oblivion of ‘just another one of those romantic comedies’, writes Lewis Taplin.
Film round-up: 18/08/14 – 24/08/14
Lucy, Alleluia, Deliver Us From Evil, Into The Storm, Wolfcop: which one of these will be your thrill this week?
Review: The Expendables 3
The third outing of the series is a stunted and rather sad-looking low-rent action picture clinging so closely to its roots that it spends more time bordering on parody than it does actually doing anything worthwhile.