Fast and Furious 6 keeps up the pace
The latest high-octane installment to the Fast and Furious series sees Vin Diesel return alongside his crew to battle new menace Owen Shaw, and proves the films are not yet…
Gatsby sadly less than great
Baz Luhrmann’s latest, the fifth on-screen outing for F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby, has finally landed. Sadly, yet inevitably, it has failed to live up to the hype…
Mud: Jeff Nichols goes back to his roots
In his third directorial outing, Jeff Nichols takes things back to the Arkansas of his childhood and his directorial début, Shotgun Stories. The nostalgia dial that they have in Hollywood…
High Drama in Almodóvar’s ‘I’m So Excited’
As we’ve all been told a thousand times before, you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover. I’m So Excited, the latest film from Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar (Volver, The…
Broadchurch conclusion is no killer
Last week saw the culmination of one of the biggest hits in ITV’s recent history, as nine million tuned in to discover the killer of Danny Latimer in the sleepy…
Swanning around in Black Tie
As part of Keble Arts Festival, on Thursday Oxford’s own Hacked Off Films followed last term’s successful Ferris Bueller’s Day Off screening with an immersive tribute to Darren Aronofsky’s unsettling…
Olympus: where the standards have fallen
A Die Hard flick in everything but name (and lead actor), Hollywood’s latest all-American action romp Olympus Has Fallen shares none of the charm of Willis’ signature series, with the…
Deep in the Hundred Acre Woods – A Review of Evil Dead
Sam Raimi once described his original The Evil Dead as The Three Stooges but with gore instead of custard pies. The 1981 version is the locus classicus of a myriad…
