Call Me By Your Name

The third film in director Luca Guadagnino’s Desire Trilogy, Call Me By Your Name (adapted from the Andre Aciman novel of the same name) explores the relationship between Elio Perlman (Timothée Chalamet), the precocious son of an anthropology professor living in Northern Italy, and Oliver (Armie Hammer) a graduate student spending the summer with the...

Kingsman – The Golden Circle

2015’s sleeper hit Kingsman: The Secret Service introduced the cinema-goers to the weird and wonderful world of Mark Millar’s acclaimed graphic novel of the same name. Not only was The Secret Service a welcome relief from the increasingly dour post-Bourne spy genre, but a genuinely funny and charming film in its own right. Director Matthew...

Logan Lucky

In 2013, hyper-prolific writer/director Steven Soderbergh (Traffic, Oceans Eleven) announced his plans to retire from feature filmmaking, citing his dissatisfaction with the film industry and Hollywood studio machine as the reason for his untimely exit. During his ‘retirement’ (which was quickly downgraded to ‘sabbatical’) Soderbergh directed every episode of turn-of-the-century medical drama The Knick before...

Baby Driver

When a director describes their newest film as a ‘passion project’, a few things come to mind; a slow-burning, thought-provoking and deeply personal piece that the creator has worked toward for their entire career, often taking on projects that do not satisfy them artistically, just to craft their masterpiece. Think Spielberg’s harrowing Schindler’s List, Martin...

Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice

Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (now BvS) is a strange film. Not psychedelic strange. Not even a good strange. In fact, it’s not really a film at all. BvS is a series of well directed scenes containing the DC Comics characters Batman and Superman. But even then, these characters bare very little resemblance to...

The Revenant

Unless you too have been mauled by a bear and left for dead by your friends, it’s been impossible to avoid the hype behind Alejandro G. Iñarritu’s The Revenant; between never-ending award nominations for its cast and crew, overwhelmingly positive reviews from critics across the Atlantic and a nail biting trailer, this 19th century epic...