Mississippi Grind (2015)

One of my favourite things about the cinematic calendar after the crashes and bangs of the summer season have passed are all of the smaller, less genre focused films that pop their heads out and grace our screens before the heavy hitters of awards season start to take over. In a week where Spectre is destined to…

Suffragette (2015)

Hooray! We are finally here! We have survived the mind numbing action blockbusters of the summer and have begun the journey in to the hallowed movie months known as awards season. Though most of the real heavy hitters won’t be coming out until nearer 2016 and beyond, the first sightings of films with ambitions of…

Addicted To Fresno (2015)

Having absolutely no desire to watch yet another big screen adaptation of a Shakespeare classic, even if it does star some of my favourite actors and actresses of the time (Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard), the only choice that intrigued me enough to want to leave the house on a rainy Friday was the Karey…

The Martian (2015)

Just short of a year ago, I was sat in a dark theatre having my mind bended in all sorts of directions by Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar. This year, it appears that the sci-fi cinema audiences are swapping Matthew McConaughey for Matt Damon in Ridley Scott’s big screen adaptation of Andy Weir’s 2001 novel The Martian. With…