Film Archive
4th February 2014
Cornerhouse Pick of the Week: How to Survive a Plague
Tom Bruce reviews this powerful documentary that should be on everyone’s watch list
4th February 2014
Preview: The Double
Angus Harrison previews Richard Ayoade’s next film, based on the work by Dostoyevsky
4th February 2014
Top 5: Rising stars of 2014
Here’s Jackson Ball’s top 5 actors to watch out for this year
4th February 2014
Great Danes
Film editor Sophie James discusses how the talent of one country is leaving its mark on the world of TV and cinema
30th January 2014
Contrary Corner: Menage a Toys
Angus tells us why he believes Toy Story is the only truly perfect film trilogy
18th January 2014
Review: The Wolf of Wall Street
Robbie reviews the controversial real-life tale of Jordan Belfort
3rd December 2013
Review: Dom Hemingway
Hard living safe cracker Dom Hemingway (Law) is set loose in London after a 12 year prison sentence. Pairing up with best friend Dickie (Grant), Dom seeks out financial reward for his loyalty to underworld boss Mr. Fontaine (Bichir). ‘’Crazy night, last night. Dickie lost a glove and everything.’’ Jude Law spent a summer […]
3rd December 2013
Review: Saving Mr Banks
Robbie found a spoonful of Emma Thompson helped even the most mainstream biopic go down
3rd December 2013
Preview: Anchorman: The Legend Continues
Will Ron Burgundy prove to be the ultimate comeback kid? Lloyd Hammett anticipates the return of everyone’s favourite news team in ‘Anchorman 2’
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3rd December 2013
Contrary Corner: Waxing on The Wackness
Zach Fuller bigs up an underrated and overshadowed gem from 2008, starring Ben Kingsley and Mary Kate Olsen
3rd December 2013
Top 5: One Take Scenes
It’s a risky business, but sometimes one shot is all it takes to make movie magic. James Moules gives us his top 5 one take scenes
3rd December 2013
Animation Comes of Age: How grown ups can laugh with the kids too
Suraj Vara discusses how, when it comes to comedy, animated movies cater for all ages
3rd December 2013
Cornerhouse Pick of the Week: Jeune et Jolie
Angus reflects on the latest offering from François Ozon and many of the themes we’d expect from modern French cinema
25th November 2013
Review: The Counsellor
I’d like to start this review by saying this: I really wanted to like this film. In fact, I wanted to love it. Unfortunately, The Counselor is just terrible. The film revolves around a lawyer (Michael Fassbender), inexplicably only known as “Counselor”, who involves himself in a drug deal with an extravagant drug dealer/nightclub owner […]
25th November 2013
Contrary Corner: Almost Famous but never quite the hit
The box office bomb of Oliver Hirshbiegel’s royalist-bait Diana biopic to compliment it’s critical mauling shows the rare commercial failure of a genre littered with banal Oscar begging (The King’s Speech) and vapidly toothless portrayals of their muses (Notorious and The Iron Lady, which manage to transform The Notorious B.I.G into Mother Teresa and Margaret Thatcher into […]
25th November 2013
Preview: Noah
Jack Crutcher discusses Darren Aronofsky’s cinematic turn from the balletic to the biblical
25th November 2013
Cornerhouse Pick of the Week: Short Term 12
Short Term 12 follows a 20-something supervising staff member, Grace (Brie Larson), of a foster care facility as she navigates the troubled waters of that world alongside her co-worker and longtime boyfriend, Mason (John Gallagher Jr.). One thing that struck me was the unenviable task the staff had, treading the fine line between being a […]
25th November 2013
EXCLUSIVE: The Family review and interview with the cast
Robbie attended a press conference with the Robert De Niro and the stars of The Family, and gives us his verdict on the film