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Despite a good cast, some funny quips, and characters who have already proved entertaining in other installments of the Madagascar franchise, this film feels like quick, easy filler for Dreamworks, says Natasha Raymond.
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Getting closer to Christmas, Harrison Abbott is commenting on the Spielbergian way to put Christmas in one shot.
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This year’s final week of showings at Union Films includes a free screening of Love Actually.
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With Big Eyes being released at the end of the month, it is the perfect timing to take a look at Tim Burton’s career who started in the film industry more than 40 years ago – and that’s without including is very own DIY shorts when he was a kid. With 29 director credits, including eighteen […]
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Camilla Cassidy looks at the first installment of the Harry Potter series and its magical depiction of Christmas.
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Eastern Boys is a striking piece of cinema, offering a strong and sometimes challenging first hour and a half, which is, unfortunately, brought on clumsy cliché narration grounds for the last 40 mins, says Virginie Robe.
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Marvel have the audacity to make a film about a talking raccoon, a tree creature capable of saying only three words… and it works!
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For the second instalment of the featurette, Ben Robins looks at Mean Girls and how the innocence of Christmas and youth are both tarnished by a rising culture of self-objectification.
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From the last showing of The Hunger Games – Mockingjay Part 1 to Fury, check what’s on at Union Film this week!
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The Pixar Story is a 2007 documentary directed by Leslie Iwerks retracing the growing success of the famous company, now partnered with Disney – and when I say the word success, I mean it: the film blatantly solely focuses on the ups of the company, reducing the downs to the harsh début any company has […]
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The Imitation Game features genuinely moving moments, but time and time again they’re trodden on by melodramatic Hollywood tropes, says Joseph Henderson.
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Well put-together and with an accomplished and polished look, the film is more than competently constructed, but it is sometimes lacking a certain spark that was so pronounced in Catching Fire, says Harrison Abbott.
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Well and truly sunk by a clearly muddled style, and then raised exponentially by a world-beating lead performance, Get On Up stands as one of the most divided films of the year, says Ben Robins.
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We’re now a month until the big day. To celebrate, Hollie Geraghty opens the Film section’s Christmas featurette and talks about the Polar Express.