★★★☆☆ 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 […]
