The Homesman (2014)

Up until a few weeks ago, The Homesman was a film that I knew little to nothing about. My very first encounter with the picture came through the confused memory of a good friend (The Flim Culb) who stated that a movie was coming out involving Hilary Swank escorting three mad women across the plains…

Mini Reviews #12

Tammy (2014) Director: Ben Falcone Starring: Melissa McCarthy, Susan Sarandon, Allison Janney A comedy that promises so much and delivers very little. Tammy seemed as though it would be a personal home run for me, starring a handful of my favourite actresses and having Melissa McCarthy in Bridesmaids mode at the helm, but the movie…

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 (2014)

Well, here we are again. In the absence of Harry Potter and Twilight, it seems the one thing that gets fans of the young adult genre quivering with excitement each year is the latest instalment of Suzanne Collins’ monumentally successful Hunger Games series. Not quite ready to put the franchise to bed in 2014, the…

The Imitation Game (2014)

In a purely cinematic sense, nothing gives me greater joy than waving goodbye to the brainless blockbusters of the summer and welcoming the autumn and winter season of films that are here for one thing, the prospect of awards. One of the first of this aspiring bunch of releases hoping to grab the attention of…

Interstellar (2014)

It has been two years since Christopher Nolan’s last directorial effort The Dark Knight Rises blew up the scene and brought in more than one billion dollars at the box office. Since then he has lent his producing and writing hands to 2013’s Man Of Steel and this year’s Transcendence, both of which were not…