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Blue Is The Warmest Colour •
By James Freeman The winner of the Palme d’Or is a landmark amongst coming-of-age films, spurning the clichés of LGBT cinema in order to show us the people beneath the characters. In 1895, William...
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All Is Lost •
By Florence Hyde Part thriller, part horror, part existentialist musing on the nature of age and mortality, J. C. Chandor’s stripped-down survival drama is grippingly tense. The premise of All is Lost...
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12 Years A Slave •
By Florence Hyde Twelve Years a Slave is a hard film to watch, let alone enjoy: a shocking and brutally honest film which leaves you emotionally steamrolled, it is totally deserving of the all the...
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The Wolf Of Wall Street
By Henry Coburn Scorsese & DiCaprio’s latest project is a shambolic cauldron of sex, drugs, sex, swearing, sex and loads and loads of money. Shame it won’t win Best Picture. Based on an...
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Inside Llewyn Davis •
By Will Firth With their latest venture, the Coen brothers have created a truly bizarre and unique piece of art; one which is resigned to not being fully appreciated within its own runtime. Inside...
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The Grand Budapest Hotel •
By Florence Hyde The Grand Budapest Hotel is the most hyper-Anderson film imaginable; the imaginary Eastern European setting of Zubrowka might as well be called WesWorld. To some extent everyone is...
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Fruitvale Station •
By Will Firth Ryan Coogler’s profound drama mixes powerful performances, perfect pacing and an almost documentarian honesty to incredible effect in its 90 minute runtime. Akin to the tragic incident...
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Boyhood
By Florence Hyde Cultural document, parenting guide and personal portrait, Boyhood is a weirdly detached but deeply poignant exploration of growing up in the nineties and noughties. In many ways...
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Nightcrawler
By Will Firth Jake Gyllenhaal gives one of the year’s most electrifying performances in writer Dan Gilroy’s raw and uncompromising directorial debut. To say that this film adheres to aspects of the...
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Interstellar
By Will Firth Many contemporary filmmakers (and critics) put a high price on originality, and one could argue that is exactly where director Christoper Nolan gets his lofty reputation from; refreshing...
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