Making Miracles From the Mundane: Why Claymation Still Works
The release of the long-awaited Monsters, Inc prequel, Monster’s University, reveals just how much CGI animation has grown over the past decade. Back in 2001, when Pixar released the original…
The Golden Globes reward a smart Affleck
It’s that time of the year again: the beautiful people are suiting up, Daniel Day-Lewis is making space on the mantelpiece, and gongs are being dished out left, right and…
Gloom for HMV could spell death for DVDs
On 15th January 2013, it was announced that HMV had gone into administration. A day later, Blockbuster faced the axe. There’s a worrying trend at work here – there are…
Must-See Movies of 2013
1. The Great Gatsby Baz Luhrmann’s new adaptation promises to bring F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic novel off the dusty shelves of libraries and classrooms and into the modern world. The…
Academy Ignored: the films the Oscars missed
The Oscar for Best Picture does not confer greatness on its own. Few would argue that Crash is a better film than Brokeback Mountain, or that Forrest Gump has had…
Hitchcock and The Girl, a look at the man behind the camera
To many of us the new films about Alfred Hitchcock may come as a great surprise. We may not have anticipated, when walking into the theatre, that our perception of…
The 10 best trailers of 2012
You may have noticed that it’s nearly Christmas and, as such, all self-respecting film critics have taken it upon themselves to compile a best film of the year list. Fortunately,…
The 10 best Christmas films: a definitive list
Christmas films are typically saccharine, sentimental and shit. Movies like the dreadful Santa Clause series, or the eye wateringly bad Four Christmases threaten to turn even the cheeriest of souls…
