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First look review: The Lifeguard ★★★☆☆
Kristen Bell impresses in this adult drama about a woman trying to rediscover herself.
The Best Films of 2013
As we reach the new year, we look back at the movies that made 2013 a great year for cinema.
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug ★★★☆☆
The second film charting the journey of Bilbo, Gandalf and company is a definite improvement on the first, explains Chris Pate.
Review: Jeune et Jolie ★★★★☆
François Ozon’s ambivalent exploration into an introverted teen’s foray into prostitution is majestic, intelligent, but not trouble free.
Highest-grossing movies of 2013 unveiled
Iron Man 3, Despicable Me 2 and Monster’s University are amongst the top 20.
Review: Old Boy ★☆☆☆☆
Spike Lee misses the mark in this feeble remake of Park Chan Wook’s breathtaking original, says Joseph Henderson
BluChristmas #80 – Love Actually (2003)
It may be silly, sprawling, full of plot holes and ridiculous coincidences, but Richard Curtis’s outstanding directorial debut has become a Christmas classic.
Review: Kill Your Darlings ★★★★☆
This is a small but absorbing portrait of inspiration and turmoil in the early years of the Beat Generation, says Andy Southcott.
Review: The Counsellor ★★★★★
Ridley Scott’s new film is a dazzling, dizzying masterpiece, says our Film Editor Barnaby Walter.
Blockbuster is dead: The changing world of film and the end of the DVD
Will Dawson laments the announcement that Blockbuster is to close all its stores, and imagines a world without that staple of the film industry, the DVD.
Archive: Apocalypse Now (1979)
Jack Harding explains why Francis Ford Coppola’s film must be seen by all
Preview: The Hunger Games: Catching Fire at Union Films
One of the biggest films of the year gets an early outing at Union Films
BluChristmas #73: Man on Wire (2008)
Virginie Robe chooses Man on Wire as a documentary all cinema-lovers must ask for this Christmas.
Union Films: What’s Coming Up This Week (25/11/13)
Union Films run through what they’re showing on campus this week.