Category: Film


  • Review: Need for Speed ★★☆☆☆

    This would have been a far better film if the writer and director put as much effort into writing the script as they did the action, says Tom Hopkins.

  • Union Films: What’s Coming Up This Week (24/03/14)

    We have reached the final week before we all go off and stuff our faces with chocolate eggs, but there is still time to enjoy the odd trip to Union Films!

  • Review: Yves Saint Laurent ★★☆☆☆

    This is a watchable though rather forgettable insight into an influential man’s life, says Virginie Robe.

  • First look review: Captain America: The Winter Soldier ★★★★☆

    The Winter Soldier is a welcome continuation to the Captain America franchise.

  • Review: The Grand Budapest Hotel ★★★★☆

    Wes Anderson seems like the sort of person who, in childhood, was far more interested in analogue and organic things than digital technology. The first thing that may strike viewers as they watch The Grand Budapest Hotel, is the visual language that Anderson has commands here and  all of his previous films. Many detractors have dismissed his films […]

  • Review: Under the Skin ★★★★★

    When was the last time you looked into the eyes of a stranger and really considered what lies under the skin? Jonathan Glazer’s Under the Skin is an experimental odyssey unlike any film in recent memory due to its outlandish form, unusual in an English-language film. This is a true art film with strong elements of […]

  • Union Films: What’s Coming Up This Week (17/03/14)

    This week looks to be awesome with All Is Lost, Much Ado About Nothing, our Indiana Jones Movie Marathon as well as The Secret Life of Walter Mitty and Last Vegas rounding off the week.

  • Caped crusaders; the future of the superhero franchise

    Superhero movies have been a staple of the cinematic world for years, but with the post-2000 boom in new franchises, Culture Editor Rebecca asks ‘where to next?’

  • Blu-ray review: The Hunger Games: Catching Fire ★★★★★

    The second film in The Hunger Games series comes to Blu-ray this week. Kirstie Carter explains why it certainly deserves a place on your shelf.

  • Review: The Zero Theorem ★★★★☆

    A neurotic self-pluralising computer analyst desperately seeks the reason for human existence in a self-collapsing future populated by talking heads and giant lycra onesies. Well, it could only come from Terry Gilliam. The king of kookiness returns to the genre he once defined with a fresh new take on the world we have to look […]

  • Review: 300: Rise Of An Empire ★★☆☆☆

    I expected nothing but brutal violence, stunning visuals, beefy oiled men and a hint of homoerotism from Noam Murro’s 300: Rise of an Empire, and in a slow motion tidal wave of blood, sweat and pathetic fallacy, it delivered. For an hour and 42 minutes we endure two armies of anonymous waxed meat men in […]

  • The Edge talks to Chris Hemsworth about his latest Marvel epic, Thor: The Dark World

    Film Editor Barnaby Walter chats to Chris Hemsworth about his movie Thor: The Dark World

  • Review: Only Lovers Left Alive ★★★★★

    Forget about the disastrous Twilight series and their so-called modern representation of vampires, Jim Jarmusch has just renewed (saved) the archetype of the immortal lovers. The film soberly opens with a red gothic font on a black background. She, in Morrocan Tanger, is lying in a bedroom covered with books from every language. He is […]

  • The Edge Live-Blogs the Movies #4: Hostel (2005) by Eli Roth

    Monday 10 March 2014: We shall be live-blogging Eli Roth’s controversial horror film Hostel! Let there be blood. Watch along with us, starting at 10.20PM.