HEREAFTER review
Clint Eastwood’s latest starts with such a powerful statement of intent. The opening scenes are of a young Parisian broadcast journalist and her partner who are on holiday in the Far East, all very...
View ArticleTRUE GRIT review
In their latest film, Joel and Ethan are remaking one of the old duke’s crowning honours True Grit, a film which itself is an adaptation of the book by Charles Portis. True Grit is the story of Mattie...
View ArticleTHE ADJUSTMENT BUREAU review
One author who has a strong history of cinema adaptation is Philip K. Dick, the pen behind a run of films such as a Total Recall, Blade Runner, A Scanner Darkly and Minority Report. The latest film...
View ArticleCONTAGION review
Steven Soderbergh has announced that he will be retiring from the film business after his next three films, the latest is the ensemble piece Contagion. A thriller which follows the outbreak of a...
View ArticleDouble Take Episode 7
The Double Take Podcast is the movie discussion show on Middlesbrough’s Community Voice FM, with Mark Harrison and Rob Simpson. On it we discuss the local box office top 5, the latest movie news, the...
View ArticleBest of the Rest (25-11). 2011
2011 is a year of many things in cinema, however if there was one theme that defined the year it would be a lack of truly great films. I will admit from the off that I hated Melancholia and thought...
View ArticleTHE BOURNE LEGACY review
Back in 2002. the Bourne identity made the creative bodies behind the Bond Franchise stop and reassess how they do things, effectively breaking a tradition stretching back to the 1960s. The story that...
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