Frankly first-rate. Directed by American independent filmmaker Lenny Abrahamson, an aspiring musician, Jon (Domnhall Gleeson), experiences a journey of self-exploration after joining a band led by the eccentric and mysterious Frank (Michael Fassbender), whose face is permanently covered beneath a comically oversized mask. Not only is Frank is a good character study; weird behaviour and out-of-control situations are depicted throughout…
A Bitter-Suite Love Story. Suite Française is a love story between Bussy resident Lucille Angellier (Michelle Williams) and Nazi officer Commander Bruno (Matthias Schoenaerts). As the town of Bussy deals with the burden of Nazi occupation, Angellier finds herself coming to empathise with Bruno. As a result, an unlikely romance blossoms, along with all the complications that are to be…
A clever and chilling Sci-fi masterpiece. A young programmer named Caleb (Domhnall Gleeson), working at a popular search engine company, BlueBook, is selected in a contest to spend a week with the company’s founder, Nathan Bateman (Oscar Isaac). When arriving at Nathan’s isolated estate, Caleb is introduced to the Nathan’s project ‘Ava’ (Alicia Vikander), an artificially intelligent android. It is Caleb’s…
Absolutely Barking-Mad! Directed by George Miller, Mad Max: Fury Road is the fourth installment to the franchise, though don’t fret – the last one was released in 1985 and take it from someone who hadn’t seen the other three, you will be able to watch this one without viewing its predecessors. When Max (Tom Hardy) encounters a group of women led by…
They’ve done studies, you know – 60 percent of the time, this film works every time. Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues does its best to reproduce the magic of San Diego’s most eccentric news team. Having lost his job as an anchorman to his wife, resulting in issues with them, Ron Burgundy (Will Ferrell) is on the streets in a rather tough position.…
The pitch is far from perfect, and the narrative needs a tuning. Pitch Perfect proved to be one of 2012’s most unexpected hits. This time around, after a performance for the President goes horribly wrong, the Bellas are suspended, facing termination unless they can win the World A Cappella Championship – which no U.S. group has done before. To…
The story of Tony Stark and his disciples. The Avengers may be a strong team, but they will inevitably meet their doom, one day or another. When Tony Stark’s plan for an artificially intelligent global defence system codenamed “Ultron” turns against its human masters, murderous robots are soon running rampage and it’s up to Earth’s mightiest heroes…
To put it simply; a cinematic masterpiece. The Duke of Burgundy tells the story of Cynthia (Sidse Babett Knudsen) and Evelyn (Chiara D’Anna), two ornithologists. Evelyn is the younger of the two women, and we observe as she pleasantly arrives at a mansion in an unspecified country at an indistinct time with exclusive travel by bicycle. Evelyn is immediately put to…
A must see for anyone interested in the justice system. Reginald Rose’s script commences entirely within a jury room. Twelve jurors weigh the fate of an inner-city teen accused of murder. Only Juror Number Eight (Henry Fonda) possesses reasonable doubt, citing unconvincing eyewitness testimony and unreliable evidence. The eleven jurors remaining contrive to convince him, but are soon swayed by Number Eight’s…
An honest and moving insight into the life of a woman who thought she had everything figured out. Shirin (Desiree Akhavan) is a bisexual Iranian-American, who’s going through a large-scale break-up with her girlfriend Maxine (Rebecca Henderson). Starting from scratch and figuring out what to do with her life seems like the only option for her to take, but in…
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