Disney to continue transforming animated classics into live-action films
Live-action remakes of classic Disney cartoons are crowding the slate at the moment. We have had Alice in Wonderland, Maleficent and most recently Cinderella, and the likes of The Jungle Book, Beauty...
View ArticleThis week in TV: The Game and W1A
Think Cold War espionage – what are the first things that spring to mind? Obscurely named missions and animal related code signals (‘the geese fly south at midnight!’)? Clench-jawed negotiations...
View ArticleReview: Wild Tales
The ‘anthology’ is a narrative structure that is rarely used in contemporary cinema. When it does appear, it tends to be in fun, but frivolous horror movies such as VHS (2012) and The ABCs of Death...
View ArticleReview: Mad Max Fury Road
I probably wasn’t the obvious choice to review the new installation of the Mad Max franchise. It’s not that I don’t like action films; I can enjoy Fast and Furious, Mission Impossible or whatever two...
View ArticleThe OBA Shorts Screening
It wasn’t a promising start. It was midday, always distressingly early to be engaging in cultural activities, and a post-ball Sunday. As people queued for the annual Oxford Broadcasting Association’s...
View ArticleHas Sony lost the plot?
No one expected Sony’s 2015 to be a smooth ride. After the unprecedented international incident surrounding The Interview, and the subsequent hack that splattered the gory innards of the studio’s...
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