★★★★☆ Following the mad matryoshka architecture of dreams in Inception (2010), and having finally vacated Gotham’s city limits for good, Christopher Nolan is now aiming his gaze firmly onto the most epic of imaginable canvases. The history of mankind’s achievement […]
★★★☆☆ The Case Against 8 (2014) looks at one of the most divisive issues in contemporary American life: that of same sex marriage. Directors Ben Cotner and Ryan White track the five year battle to get California’s Proposition 8 overturned. […]
The name Rocky Morton may not be instantly familiar with many of today’s film fans, but in the late 1980s he was the co-creator (along with Annabel Jankel) of the cutting edge and hugely popular transatlantic satirical television series, Max […]
★★☆☆☆ Something about director David Wain’s new comedy They Came Together (2014) doesn’t feel quite right. Starring Paul Rudd, Amy Poehler and Bill Hader, this film has all the ingredients required of a zesty modern rom-com. Unfortunately though, the mix […]
★☆☆☆☆ One of the earlier attempts to forge a creative and commercial symbiosis between the gaming and cinematic world, Super Mario Bros (1993) still stands out as a prime example of what not to do when trying to construct a […]
★★☆☆☆ Just when you thought it was safe to go back outdoors, the streets of America are once again swimming with toothy predators in The Asylum’s DTV creature-feature Sharknado 2: The Second One (2014). After the cult success of the […]
★★★☆☆ Last year, Mike Myers directed Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon. It was the sugary chronicling of the celebrity world’s most treasured manager. Played out like a pseudo Carry On, the movie rascally skips from one puckish anecdote to […]
★★★★☆ Ironically, the romance of war is undying. It’s a perpetual cinematic winner with all the emotional aphorisms habitually overkilled by hyperbole; the realities of terror repeatedly trounced upon by the fantasies of the movie theatre. Yet, at times the […]
★★★★☆ Jon Favreau returns from the creative wilderness following 2011’s tepid and workmanlike Cowboys & Aliens, cooking up something entirely different with latest offering Chef (2014). While unquestionably a slice of feel-good Hollywood wish fulfilment (complete with a credibility-straining fairy-tale […]
★★★☆☆ “Everyone bonded with each other who could skate and we were complete pricks to people that couldn’t,” goes Tas Pappas; one half of the ill-famed skateboard duo the Pappas brothers. And as far as All This Mayhem (2014) is […]
Born from its namesake – the widely distributed art and culture magazine – and having doubled the number of films screening since their first edition in 2011, Aesthetica Short Film Festival returns to York from 6-9 November. Popping up in […]
