Gambling has always been a tricky topic to portray on the silver screen. Whilst gambling is a pursuit that spans the lowest lows and the highest highs for the individual player, its true drama often fails to come across in films and TV shows. More often than not the best that a gambling fan can…
Warner Brothers’ latest entrance into the DCEU is many things. It is a fun and action-packed superhero movie that has (actually funny) humor, with a wickedly marvelous villain in Mark Strong; yet the film is consistent with the ones that came before in keeping in line with social commentary. While Shazam! is an overly pleasant…
Leave No Trace is a remarkable motion picture and I wasn’t prepared for its cumulative emotional power, especially during the shattering final act. Theatrically released earlier this summer and now available on Blu-ray/DVD and via various streaming providers, co-writer and director Debra Granik (Down to the Bone, Winter’s Bone) has crafted a beautifully simple and…
Origin Wars is a brand new science-fiction adventure set in a fantastically realised, and wholly original, universe. With it’s high quality trailer and beautiful aerial dog-fight cinematography with hard hitting action and incredible CGI and practical effects Origin Wars has stepped up the indie film genre’s quality department. If you squint, you’d easily think you…
Watching and immersing yourself in a good film is one of life’s many pleasures. Favourite films can be enjoyed time and time again but sometimes you are still left feeling like you need more. If you love movies and are itching for a way to learn more about them, one way is to go on…
I am shocked and confused by how little respect was paid to Peter Landesman’s confident, important, and all together sad true life story Concussion, which documents the mostly futile attempts by the brilliant Dr. Bennet Omalu to wake the NFL up to a massive health issue, played in a nearly career topping performance by Will…
The Feast of Varanasi centres around a spate of gruesome killings, where four young girls have been burned to death. Beyond the capabilities of the local police force, a CBI officer from New Delhi is sent to investigate. For officer Arjun Das (Adil Hussain, LIFE OF PI, THE RELUCTANT FUNDAMENTALIST), it’s a return to his…
A famed mountaineer once said “Mountains are not fair or unfair, they are just dangerous” and there are few more perilous than the King of the Seven Summits, Mount Everest. Baltasar Kormákur’s new film takes audiences back almost 20 years to the fateful events that would later become known as the 1996 Mount Everest disaster;…
Can you believe it’s been over ten years since The Day After Tomorrow became the 21st century’s benchmark for formulaic disaster movies? Back in the days when Jake Gyllenhaal wasn’t yet a box office headliner, Dennis Quaid was somehow still clinging on as one, and the The Rock’s transformation into a Hollywood action star had…
Vidhu Vinod Chopra’s much anticipated Hollywood venture, Broken Horses, is all set to release on 10th April 2015. The legendary film-maker, who has always set a new benchmark for the Indian film fraternity and has made some of the most memorable movies that India has cherished like the Munnabhai series, 3 Idiots, Mission Kashmir, Parinda,…
