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Notebook Reviews: TWILIGHT

Robert Benton – 1998. Twilight is an excellent modern day film noir with a hugely impressive cast. The great Paul Newman leads the way but Robert Benton‘s film also stars the mighty James Garner, Gene Hackman, Susan Sarandon, Reese [...]

September 15, 2021

Notebook Reviews: ELECTION

Alexander Payne – 1999 Election is a solid black comedy from director Alexander Payne. The film features some great directorial touches and Matthew Broderick excels as the teacher with a grudge battling Reese Witherspoon‘s student. [...]

October 12, 2020

All Eyez On Me: The Best Music Biopics

Musicians are often some of the most interesting, unique, scrutinised and debated over figures in popular culture, which has led to a plethora of music biopics over the years. While many simply follow the same well trodden narratives that biopics [...]

June 21, 2017

Do The Time Warp: Ten Time Travel Movies

The latest film in a long line of time travel classics, Project Almanac follows a brilliant high school student and his friends who discover blueprints for a machine that can send them back in time. This latest foray into the popular [...]

June 8, 2015

Cameron Crowe Shouldn’t Apologise For Casting Emma Stone In ALOHA

Cameron Crowe has taken a lot of flack for his latest film, Aloha. The bad buzz started during the infamous Sony hacks when it was revealed that studio head Amy Pascal didn’t like the script. Some critics could smell blood in the water and [...]

June 6, 2015

OSCARS 2015: A Full List Of Nominations; BIRDMAN Flies High

The Academy Awards (aka the Oscars) nominations have been announced and it’s fantastic to see Michael Keaton score a nod for Best Actor. It was never in doubt of course, as Keaton has been the frontrunner for some time due to his sterling work in [...]

January 15, 2015

Check Out Four Clips From Paul Thomas Anderson’s INHERENT VICE

Paul Thomas Anderson’s Inherent Vice hits the UK on 30 January and it looks to be a great convergence of everything the director loves – the ‘70s, Robert Altman and offbeat humour. The adaptation of Thomas Pynchon’s novel has a starry [...]

January 10, 2015

BAFTA Awards 2015: A Full List Of Nominations

The 2015 Bafta Nominations have been announced and as usual there are some surprises scattered (Under The Skin for Outstanding British Film) throughout and some not so surprising announcements (The Theory of Everything and The Imitation Game). [...]

January 10, 2015