Happy New Year, Colin Burstead comes from Ben Wheatley who usually provides us rather off-the-wall movies such as Free Fire, Sightseers and A Field In England, so there’s always something going on, it’s almost always entertaining, and they’re pretty brief. This latest one, which was shown at the London Film Festival and now is only […]
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Free Fire has a simple premise – an arms deal goes wrong. Tetchy people with itchy trigger fingers lead to guns being shot when it really wasn’t necessary, as everything was almost about to go smoothly, despite gun dealer Vernon (District 9‘s Sharlto Copley) supplying the wrong type of weapon. Set in 1970s Boston (but […]
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High-Rise is classed as one of those ‘unfilmable novels’, although I don’t read books, probably having been put off early in life by being given Duncton Wood to read while I was in hospital. It had 736 pages and didn’t grasp me at all. At school, we were forced to read George Orwell’s 1984. I […]
Posted in Blu-ray, Movies, Reviews Tags: Alexandra Weaver, Amy Jump, Augustus Prew, Ben Wheatley, Bill Paterson, Clint Mansell, Dan Skinner, Elisabeth Moss, Enzo Cilenti, Fenella Woolgar, Graham Duff, High-Rise, JG Ballard, James Purefoy, Jeremy Irons, Jeremy Thomas, Julia Deakin, Kai, Keeley Hawes, Leila Mimmack, Louis Suc, Luke Evans, Maggie Cronin, Neil Maskell, Patrick Buchanan, Patrick FitzSymons, Peter Ferdinando, Reece Shearsmith, Sara Dee, Sienna Guillory, Sienna Miller, Stacy Martin, Tom Hiddleston, Tony Way No Comments »High-Rise is the latest movie from Ben Wheatley (A Field In England, Sightseers and the first two episodes of Doctor Who Series 8 – Deep Breath and Into The Dalek) and it has a simple premise that states life for the residents of a tower block begins to run out of control. Based on the […]
The Duke of Burgundy centres around a ‘master and servant’ BDSM relationship, with Cynthia (Borgen‘s Sidse Babett Knudsen) lording it over Evelyn (Chiara D’Anna), for example, making the latter clean the house whilst crawling around on all fours, but Evelyn enjoys being ‘owned’ and used by Cynthia – it’s what she thrives on, and she […]
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Into the Dalek begins with The Doctor picking up Journey Blue (Fresh Meat‘s Zawe Ashton) from her ship, Aristotle, just before it’s been destroyed, and in trying to help, he winds up in a hospital where he’s mistaken for being *a* doctor, rather than *the* Doctor. Doctors need patients and this one’s a Dalek. Unfortunately, […]
Posted in Reviews, TV Series Tags: Barnaby Edwards, Ben Crompton, Ben Wheatley, Bradley Ford, Ellis George, Into the Dalek, Jenna Coleman, Laura Dos Santos, Michael Smiley, Michelle Gomez, Michelle Morris, Murray Gold, Nicholas Briggs, Nigel Betts, Nikki Wilson, Peter Capaldi, Phil Ford, Samuel Anderson, Steven Moffat, Zawe Ashton No Comments »Into the Dalek is the second episode of the new Doctor Who series, again directed by Ben Wheatley, and this time they meet… erm… Daleks. Some new videos have been made available by the BBC, one being an introduction to the episode featuring Steven Moffat and Jenna Coleman, then Clara meets potential new boyfriend Danny […]
Deep Breath is the first full new episode of Doctor Who to star the superb Peter Capaldi, after his all-too-brief appearance at the end of the Christmas episode, after he regenerated from Matt Smith’s incarnation, much to the shock of Clara (Jenna Coleman). The first thing that struck me in this new series was – […]
Posted in Reviews, TV Series Tags: Ben Wheatley, Brian Miller, Catrin Stewart, Dan Starkey, Deep Breath, Ellis George, Graham Duff, Jenna Coleman, Maggie Service, Mark Kempner, Michelle Gomez, Murray Gold, Neve McIntosh, Nikki Wilson, Paul Hickey, Paul Kasey, Peter Capaldi, Peter Ferdinando, Peter Hannah, Steven Moffat, Tony Way, doctor who, matt smith No Comments »Deep Breath is the first episode of Doctor Who Series 8 and a preview clip of tonight’s episode has been released, and the Doctor is still getting to grips with things. Series 8 begins on tonight with “Deep Breath” and the first two episodes will be directed by Ben Wheatley (A Field in England, Sightseers, […]
