The Legacy centres around Veronika Grønnegaard (Kirsten Olesen), a celebrated artist who goes into a flower shop to order five bouquets. There may be some order in her chaos, but her whole house looks like …
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The Legacy centres around Veronika Grønnegaard (Kirsten Olesen), a celebrated artist who goes into a flower shop to order five bouquets. There may be some order in her chaos, but her whole house looks like …
Continue readingEnemy is, in a word, unconventional. Starting with the statement: “Chaos is order yet undeciphered”, we first see Jake Gyllenhaal, as the film’s lead, going to a bizarre club where men stand around, or sit …
Continue readingThe Maze Runner is rather like the Hunger Games and Divergent series as it’s another ‘Young Adult’ tale set in a dystopian future. Out of nowhere, Thomas (Dylan O’Brien) wakes up and finds himself hurtling …
Continue readingToy Soldiers is a film I didn’t see on its original release, so it’s good to finally check it out on this new Blu-ray premiere. A group of terrorists are fighting a losing battle in …
Continue readingEx Machina is predominantly a three-hander and stars Domhnall Gleeson (Black Mirror: Be Right Back, Frank, About Time) as Caleb, picked at random in a lottery at work to go and stay with the boss, …
Continue readingJimi: All Is By My Side looks at the life of Jimi Hendrix, a unique performer who died at the age of 27 but whom is one of a number of artists, including The Doors …
Continue readingBirdman, or to give it its full title, “Birdman: or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)“, stars Michael Keaton as has-been actor Riggan Thompson, whose glory days are behind him, hence the rather self-referential aspect to …
Continue readingWhiplash stars the relatively unknown (to me, at least) Miles Teller as Andrew, a student who loves drumming. Schaffer University music bod Terrence Fletcher (JK Simmons) also loves his drumming, as he spots the lad’s …
Continue readingFoxcatcher begins with Mark Schultz (Channing Tatum, who usually restricts himself to goofball comedies), a socially-awkward character, telling a group of schoolchildren about how he takes part in wrestling because it enabled him to win …
Continue readingStations of the Cross begins with Maria (Lea van Acken) and her Sunday School class being taught the rights and wrongs of the spiritual world by a vicar who is lecturing them on the week …
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