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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
I like to believe that Spike Lee is one of the most important directors of our time but he has made some uneasy choices of late (notably Oldboy but we dare not breathe it’s name.) Sure enough, throughout the early nineties, Lee depicted many emotional veins that burnt with racial tension that rampaged in New York City. He astutely gave colour to a generally white … Continue reading Chi-Raq – Review
Alas Pixar devotees, Sully is not a surely long-awaited spinoff to Monsters, Inc. In fact, this is Clint Eastwood’s attempt at documenting an unprecedented event, now dubbed the “miracle on the Hudson” by a savvy marketing team at Warner Bros. Pictures. The film’s full title may seem a little weak, but the fact remains that this was a miracle. Based upon the autobiography Highest Duty: … Continue reading Sully – Review
