Review: Nostalgia for the Light
In the Atacama Desert in Chile lie observatories, old and new, where astronomers from all over the world take advantage of the thinner air to get better views further out into the cosmos. On the land stretched out beneath the domes aging women spend their time digging, searching out the bones of their brothers and sons, the ‘disappeared’. (click for more)
Review: The Dark Knight Rises
Eight years in the Nolan Batman universe have passed since the caped crusader took responsibility for Harvey Dent's two faced rampage at the end of The Dark Knight, leaving the future of the central hero, his legacy and beloved city standing on the edge
of a make or break abyss (click for more)
Review: God Bless America (Goldthwait, 2011)
Frank (Joel Murray) is a generally nice guy who feels out of place in a society dominated by reality television. He can't connect with most of his co-workers, who only want to discuss the latest reject on American Superstars (The film's swipe at Cowell) and can't understand his problems with those kind of shows (click for more)
Review: Young Adult (Reitman, 2011)
For any of us who suffered through our school days, the idea that 'it gets better' was always a positive notion to cling to. A less positive notion, though one I'm sure that a fair proportion were guilty of, is that for those who inflicted a fair amount of grief upon us, it will surely 'get worse'. Young Adult, by depicting the respective fates of those at both ends of the high school social spectrum nearly 20 years after the fact, is a curious take on these two ideas (click for more)
Climbing Up the Spout Again
The Amazing Spiderman (Webb, 2012)
I've always been a fan of the Raimi Spiderman films. Well not Spiderman 3, on account of it being utter tripe, but the first two, while not perfect, were fun and entertaining. So like others, I was sceptical as to whether a reboot was exactly necessary. After all, the foundations had been laid, and even with a change of cast and director, surely future films could build on that? (click for more)
Review: Brave (Andrews/Chapman, 2012)
As a long time and unabashed fan of Disney films it pains me to say this, but the representation of women in the classic Disney canon is, to say the least, shaky. Princesses often are only able to escape through stronger men, women are often prepared to give up everything for the sake of a man (click for more)