michael-fassbender
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Review- Fifty Shades Darker (James Foley)
Contains spoilers and quite a bit of ranting It almost feels like a pointless exercise writing a review for a film that clearly is not meant to be aimed at the critics, that the point of the Fifty Shades series is to please the crowd of the excitable fans of the book and it is…
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Review- La La Land (Damien Chazelle)
We all know the score, its January, its cold and miserable, we are carrying post festivity pounds yet our wallets are feeling considerably lighter and to top it all off, we are still licking our wounds from the previous year’s constant assault of bad news, piling one brick after another in a Jenga onslaught…
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The best films of 2016
As film lovers, there is not much that we all unanimously agree on but I think it is safe to say that we all feel that this year has been a terrible one in terms of events, moments we never thought would happen and people we never thought we would lose. For me personally I…
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Five of the best…times cinema has changed how I feel about a song/band/artist
Film and music are two forms which make for interesting and creative bedfellows, the power of the two combined have created some unforgettable partnerships. There are so many films that are hard to imagine without their score (too many for me to even mention here, for fear of leaving out a classic) and there are…
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Five of the best…Films I love but find hard to go back to
Warning- Contains plot details/spoilers Perhaps I am an overly sensitive soul but do you ever watch a film for the first time, a film that grabs you emotionally, pierces through your heart and jumps straight into your list of all time favourite films? Then when you come to watch it again, you hesitate, your heart…
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Review- Midnight Special (directed by Jeff Nichols)
In the short space of three films, Jeff Nichols has established himself as a director worthy of the term auteur, bringing emotional depth and lyrical storytelling to his work. From the anxiety inducing allegory of paranoia in rural America in Take Shelter (2011) to the Southern coming of age soul of Mud (2012), he skilfully…
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Five of the best…..Coats in Film
I was recently watching the brilliant Slow West and was very taken with Ben Mendelsohn’s coat that his character wears. It almost threatened to steal the scenes from him. And then it got me thinking about the clothes of certain characters and in particular the coats that they wear. So as we continue to…
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Review- Carol
Stolen glances across a room, a yearning face pressed against a frosted window pane, a toy train circling its inevitable continuous destination. These recurring shots, loaded with unspoken meaning, define the story of two women on an unstoppable journey towards each other, drawn by the one thing that we are powerless to resist in Todd…
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Whiplash at Square Chapel, Halifax
The Square Chapel Centre for Arts has recently undertaken an initiative to show films at its historic building in Halifax, showing a mix of modern classics and recent critical hits including family favourite Matilda, cult classic Napoleon Dynamite, atmospheric chiller It Follows and the groundbreaking The Tribe. It continues its run of quality choices with…