Browsing: Film
Review: Rust and Bone ★★★★☆
Anyone who saw Jacques Audiard’s internationally acclaimed 2009 feature A Prophet, will know how intense…
Review: Argo ★★★★☆
Love him or hate him, you’d be a fool to deny the ambition of Ben…
100 Discs of Christmas #53 – Up in the Air (2009)
This superb comedy drama from Juno director Jason Reitman lets George Clooney fall back into…
100 Discs of Christmas #52 – Bad Education (2004)
Pedro Almodóvar has to be one of the most interesting directors working today. Bad Educaition, released…
Union Films Halloween All-Nighter (27/10/12)
The Halloween All-Nighter was something of a snap decision for me: with deadlines looming and…
Union Films: What’s Coming Up This Week (05/11/12)
This week at Union Films there’s yet again another great line up of films. If…
100 Discs of Christmas #51 – Fingersmith (2005)
Award winning Author Sarah Walters’ novel about Victorian England, Fingersmith was adapted into a BBC mini-series by…
100 Discs of Christmas #50 – Saw (2004)
Before it descended into pointless nastiness, the Saw series kicked off with some very good…
Disc? Stream? Download? How do we watch movies in the age of digital home viewing?
Yesterday afternoon, I made a purchase on an online retailer. It was for a blu-ray…
Archive: Funny Games U.S. is an eccentric and highly compelling remake
Vindictive. Exploitive. Malicious. Audacious. Psychotic. Neurotic. Subversive. Oppressive. Impressive. Disturbing. Outstanding?…Perhaps. Pointless?….Perhaps. For esoteric and…
George Lucas to Donate Money From Sale of Lucasfilm to Charity
Further to an earlier report, George Lucas has announced that he will be donating the…
100 Discs of Christmas #49 – Bad Santa (2003)
Billy Bob Thornton is at his self-loathing best here playing Willie, a disgruntled alcoholic ‘Mall…
100 Discs of Christmas #48 – Spanking the Monkey (1994)
Spanking the Monkey is a hugely significant movie in that it deals with a subject…
100 Discs of Christmas #47 – Disney’s A Christmas Carol (2009)
Now they have reached their third adaptation, Disney seems to think Dickens’s classic story about…