T2 Trainspotting was a film that was over 20 years in the making, a sequel to one of the Great British films of the ’90s, reuniting its director, screenwriter and cast to loosely adapt the Irvine Welsh follow-up novel Porno. Mark Renton (Ewan McGregor) had been living in Amsterdam after stealing £16,000 from his friends […]
Resident Evil: The Final Chapter is a fitting end for the franchise, in that it’s a terrible movie that indulges in everything that made all the other ones awful as well – no internal plot logic, non-existent characters, no regard for series continuity and ridiculously overblown action scenes. The Resident Evil movie series has consistently […]
Trainspotting is one of the quintessential British films from the ’90s, a stylish cult movie that launched the careers of its director Danny Boyle and many of its actors. Now after 21-years, Renton, Sick Boy, Spud and Begbie return for a sequel – so now is the time to look at the British classic. Based […]
The issues surrounding racism in the 1960’s has been the subject matter of films for decades. Jasper Jones offers a unique view of racism in Australia. Similar to the Harper Lee classic, To Kill a Mockingbird, this is told through the eyes of a adolescent. How will it fare amongst all of the dramas with […]
Park Circus has announced that it will release the critically acclaimed American Gothic horror The Eyes of My Mother, directed by Nicolas Pesce in UK cinemas on 24 March 2017. Starring Kika Magalhaes, Will Brill, Clara Wong, Flora Diaz and Joey Curtis-Green, The Eyes of My Mother is the story of Francisca (Magalhaes), who has […]
Set to the backdrop of the 2011 England Riots, Urban Hymn is a coming-of-age film that had its world premier at the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival and is now coming out onto DVD in the UK. Jamie Harrison (Letitia Wright) is a young woman who has had a tough childhood, losing her mother to a drug overdose at […]
Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold. – Leo Tolstoy When you think of mining prospectors, the vision of an old toothless madman panning for gold in the 1800s is what may come to mind. This Hollywood vision of a long […]
