(USA, 2016) 19th August – 25th August, DCA David Ayer, director of Training Day and Fury, makes his debut in the DC Comics cinematic universe with the anarchic and crazed Suicide Squad, derived from the fairly recent comic (1987) of the same name by John Ostrander which drew great acclaim and success. Suicide Squad consists Read More
(Japan, 2004) 3rd July 2016, DCA Hayao Miyazaki once again produced greatness in 2004 with Howl’s Moving Castle, following on from his previous successes My Neighbour Totoro and Spirited Away. Taking inspiration from Diana Wynne Jones’ eponymous novel of 1986, Miyazaki tells yet another tale of an unlikely hero; when young, hard-working Sophie has a Read More
(Japan, 2001) June 26th, DCA Studio Ghbili’s timeless animated classic Spirited Away returns to the big screen for the one-off, week-long event “Studio Ghibli Forever”, celebrating the release of the studio’s (supposed) last film, When Marnie Was There. Spirited Away tells the tale of a young girl named Chihiro (Rumi Hiiragi) who, whilst exploring her Read More
Demolition comes from Canadian film-maker Jean-Marc Valée (Dallas Buyers Club) and explores the grievance and mental collapse of Davis Mitchel (Gyllenhaal), after he and his wife are in a car crash in which she dies and he escapes unscathed. The film becomes somewhat reminiscent of Donnie Darko crossed with Fight Club, birthing a beautifully original Read More
Don Cheadle, most known for his role in Hotel Rwanda and more recently as Rhode/War Machine in the Iron Man and Avengers films, makes a stunning directorial debut in this biopic about one of the most talented and controversial musicians in music history – Miles Davis. Cheadle approaches this film with admirable ambition, creating a Read More
A strong female role at the helm of a Western? I’m all in. Jane Got a Gun is the most recent film from the genre to burst onto the big screen and, with most audiences having a love/hate relationship with Westerns (if you hadn’t guessed, I am absolutely the former), it was unsurprising to see Read More
I went into the screening of Dawn of Justice preceded by a dark cloud of poor reviews that surrounded the film upon its release; I can definitely say that these were an injustice to the almost wholly positive experience I enjoyed. Now, don’t get me wrong, it is by no means a masterpiece and there Read More
Scene: 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, Canada. One British ski jumper went from an ordinary household, where generations upon generations worked themselves into the simple family plastering business, and reached heights that only he could dream of. Michael “Eddie” Edwards (Taron Egerton) goes against all the odds in this touching and comedic true story directed Read More
Goodnight Mommy, from Austrian directors Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala, is a horror with many niche directions and approaches to the genre – for instance, dialogue wasn’t overly frequent as the film relies more on creating a traditional psychological horror atmosphere than telling the audience what is happening. This atmospheric tension is persistent from the first few seconds Read More
A veteran sheriff, an elderly back-up deputy, a vain gentleman and a cowboy cripple set out into the west. Although this sounds like the set-up for a joke, Bone Tomahawk is anything but a slapstick-comedy or a Tarantino imitation. Indeed, writer S. Craig Zahler’s directorial debut is an original and refreshing Western with a sustained Read More
