Cert 18 | 90 mins | 2015
4 Star Cops, Baddies and Hackney’s Finest.
From first time full length feature director Chris Bouchard (The Hunt for Gollum), comes Thorin Seex first venture into film writing and what comes out at the other end is a dark tale of drugs, corrupt cops and fuelled up Russians, where everyone knows every swear word in the book and uses the hardest…more
Cert 15 | 300 mins | 2015
4 stars for this long awaited finale to the Arrancars Saga.
The usual spoiler alerts apply here, well into the story, watch the rest first!
This is a rather difficult series to call. It opens with a halloween episode and then one featuring Shūhei as editor in chief of the Seireitei newspaper. All very nice, but a bit frustrating when we are SO…more
Cert 15 | 95 mins | 2015
4 Star Sci-Fi that you’ll have to watch Over and Over Again.
The Spierig Brothers (Daybreakers, Undead) have taken Robert A. Heinlein‘s book All You Zombies (Starship Troopers, The Puppet Masters) and written the screenplay and directed a timely piece of cinematic mastery.
This is a film that is dark, there maybe sunshine but it never really shines on our protagonists. Right…more
Cert U | 92 mins | 2015
4 stars of quality crazy penguin action for the little ones.
Penguins Of Madagascar is directed by Simon J. Smith (Bee Movie, Shrek) and Eric Darnell (based on the characters from his Madagascar series of films).
It follows on directly from the events of Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted, and features everyone’s favourite penguins in their very own spy thriller.
The film opens…more
Cert 15 | 89 mins | 2015
4 stars for this highly entertaining coming-of-age comedy.
Girl In Progress is written by Hiram Martinez (Four Dead Batteries) and directed by Patricia Riggen (Under the Same Moon, Lemonade Mouth).
It tells the story of a young girl Ansiedad (Cierra Ramirez – The Fosters, The Secret Life of the American Teenager), who is having a hard time of it being raised by…more
Cert PG | 95 mins | 2015
5 stars for this thoroughly charming family film.
Paddington is written by Hamish McColl (Mr. Bean’s Holiday, Johnny English Reborn) and Paul King (The Mighty Boosh, Bunny and the Bull), who also directs the film.
It is based on the much loved character, Paddington Bear, from the best-selling children’s books by Michael Bond (Parsley the Lion and the Herbs).
Paddington (Ben Whishaw –…more
Cert 15 | 87 mins | 2015
1 star of slightly yawn-worthy and unsatisfying sci-fi film.
The Device is written and directed by Jeremy Berg (The Invoking, Trauma) and essentially wants to be a tale of alien abduction, which is a bit difficult without any of the interesting stuff. To say it was inspired by alien abduction cases may be giving it too much credit, I’m not sure…more
