Theatre

For Twilight – Anton Smirnoff Having had minimal experience with Twilight, I decided to have a rummage through the infinite number of reviews for the newest film in the series,…

As I write, Brighton’s 9th Cinecity Film Festival is four nights into its two-and-a-half week run, though by the time you read this another week will have passed. That makes…

The chances are you’ve already heard the premise of ‘We Need to Talk about Kevin’ – it’s the film adaptation of the award winning novel and has just won the…

Perhaps the quirkiest film you will see this year, Miranda July’s ‘The Future’ is an exploration into the human desire to seek security in a routine and the dangers of…

The Rum Diary, so the story goes, was found in manuscript form in the attic of Hunter S. Thompson by Johnny Depp, some 30-odd years after first being written by…

The last couple of years haven’t exactly been the most understated for Lars Von Trier, director of ‘Melancholia’. With his last film ‘Antichrist’ deemed controversial over its graphic violence against…

‘London Boulevard,’ starring Colin Farrell and Keira Knightley, tells the dark and debauched tale of a South London gangster recently released from prison after serving time for GBH. Based on…

After a flurry of films that aim to boggle our minds and invert the world we are used to, such as ‘Inception’ and ‘Shutter Island’, comes ‘The Adjustment Bureau’. Based…

It is not often that a film offers us a window into the lives of people so ordinary and like ourselves that we feel almost as though we are eavesdropping…

The prospects, from the premise, look far from thrilling. A film adaptation of the real life story of extreme sports enthusiast Aron Ralston (James Franco) who in 2003, following a…

Costume-dramas aren’t everyone’s cup of tea, and I’d probably be hard-pressed to find a bunch of university students clambering to see a picture about some Prince-or-another that had a hard…

Photo Credit: arethehillsgoingtomarchoff.blogspot.com Only Darren Aronofsky could make ballet – pretty, demure, elegant ballet – so terrifying and painful to watch that the joints of your feet start to ache…

Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole Zack Snyder US, 90 mins, 2010, PG I straight up love owls. They’ve got everyone fooled. Mortarboard-wearing, book-reading cartoon owls aside, they’re…

Some may be delighted, some may be disappointed but whether you like it or not, The Hangover 2 is currently in production. The first film, for those four people who…

There’s no better way to spend a wintry evening than curled up in a comfy chair in Britain’s oldest cinema watching the best that the coming season of films has…

A Town Called Panic Stéphane Aubier & Vincent Patar France, 2009, 75mins, PG The creators of the legendary Cravendale milk adverts are back with ‘A Town called Panic’, a hyperactive…

Last year, James Cameron’s second golden egg Avatar was hailed as one of the most important films ever made through its use of pre-existing formats and enormous wads of cash.…

Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps Oliver Stone US, 2010, 133min., 12A In the current climate, most of us would agree that bankers couldn’t be more unpopular. So, from director Oliver…

Third year Sussex students Saul Abraham, Henry Degnin and Callum Cameron have spent the past months making ‘Exit to Beach’, a documentary about the darker side of Brighton, and why…

Hidden HerStories Octavia Foundation UK, 2010, 50 mins (approx) Part of Black History Month You’d be forgiven for not recognising the names of Octavia Hill, Amy Ashwood Garvey, Claudia Jones…