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The Office Christmas Party is infamous in working circles. In fact, I don’t know a single person who doesn’t have at least one horror story from their work do. There is usually free alcohol pouring, dance music raving, and people who just want their inhibitions to flow wildly into the night air like a loose bit of clothing they have just stripped off. Though the next … Continue reading Office Christmas Party – Review
Tim Burton used to work for Disney (and was kicked out after his Frankenweenie live action short) and this movie was considered so “dark and scary” for children that Disney were really afraid of putting their name on it and decided to hide it under the Touchstone name. It was also giving an extremely low budget so when people say it was a “commercial” success; … Continue reading Looking Back…The Nightmare Before Christmas (1994)
by Ren Zelen Sixteen-year-old Midwesterner John Wayne Cleaver (Max Records) has issues. He is avoided by his classmates and treated warily by most adults because he is unashamedly obsessed with serial killers, murder, and death. His fascination is fed by the regrettable fact that his loving but overworked single mom, April (Laura Fraser) owns an understaffed funeral home, and at busy times he is allowed … Continue reading I Am Not A Serial Killer – Review
by Ren Zelen The old notion of ‘bugging’ – of microphones under desks or cameras hidden in mirrors – is long gone, it’s archaic, out with the Nixon era. There is no need for that clunky hardware now because we are all connected via computer. So our data, texts, videos and e-mails, are all accessible for anyone with the technology. The question is – who … Continue reading Snowden – Review
A lot of people are unconcerned and downright patronising about hype. In its essence, hype is excitement and passion. It’s teaser trailers about baby Groot. It’s posters of stormtroopers. It’s cutting the trailer for La La Land in to snortable piles and going all Scarface on that bad boy. Hype is pure and it keeps us on the brink of hope that a masterpiece movie … Continue reading Suicide Squad – DVD & Blu-Ray Review
As Miles Teller returns to the cinemas today with the intense boxing biopic Bleed For This, Sarah looks back at his best role and film, Whiplash….obviously. Cinema and music have many things in common. But the most vital component of both of them is that they similarly provide an experience. The kind of experience that really moves you. As goosebumps slide down your neck, the … Continue reading Looking Back….Whiplash (2014)
