When researching this particular article, we came to realise just what hugely contested debates this subject area can turn out. Everyone seems to have their favourite movie vehicle, largely depending on their age and also the types of films they loved as a child (and to this day). Suffice to Continue Reading
★★★☆☆ “It’s not how hard you play, it’s where you put it”, flourishes 85-year-old Lisa Modlich with an acknowledgement towards the cameraman. Since her inaugural table tennis medal in 1992, the octogenarian Modlich has gone on to vanquish around 150 more opponents. Hugh Hartford’s Ping Pong (2012) tells the stories of Lisa and several other OAPs Continue Reading
★★★★☆ If somebody were to ask you to look into a mirror, you’re not always guaranteed to like what you see reflected. US director Bobcat Goldthwait’s savage social commentary God Bless America (2011) not only attacks the cultureless void of modern society, but waves a gun barrel in the face Continue Reading
★★★★★ The sci-fi cult classic Quatermass and the Pit (1967), directed by long-time Amicus and Hammer director Roy Ward Baker (who sadly died last year) and written by Nigel Kneale (who wrote the recent Quatermass Experiment staring Mark Gatiss), is at last being rereleased in cinemas this week via StudioCanal Continue Reading
★★★☆☆ After superseding a failed attempt at getting Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man 4 off the ground (with both Raimi and Maguire unwilling to commit to Columbia’s relentless production schedule following the critical mauling of 2007 misfire Spider-Man 3), Marc Webb’s 2012 series reboot The Amazing Spider-Man swings into cinemas promising a Continue Reading
★★★★☆ Anthony Baxter’s immensely compelling (and infuriating) low-budget documentary You’ve Been Trumped (2011) begins with a well-placed clip from Bill Forsyth’s acclaimed Scottish comedy-drama Local Hero (1983), which tells the story of a small coastal town standing up to a wealthy American oil tycoon. In Baxter’s protest piece, US billionaire Continue Reading
★★☆☆☆ Hell (2011), the new sci-fi / horror from producer German-born Roland Emmerich and director Tim Fehlbaum, is undeniably aptly-titled. For the viewer, to watch this film starring Hannah Herzsprung, Stipe Erceg, Lisa Vicari and Lars Eidinger is a feat of endurance verging on purgatorial proportions.The sun, once mankind’s source Continue Reading
