On Screen Archive
27th February 2012
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close Review
Or alternatively… Extremely Crap and Incredibly Boring
30th November 2011
Happy Feet Two Review
Five years on from the Academy Award winning original George Miller is back with the sequel, Happy Feet Two.
21st November 2011
Cooking up an Oscar winner: Ingredients for a Best Picture
The step-by-step guide to getting the big award at the Oscars
17th November 2011
A little long for a Stormtrooper
In a vain attempt to continue our series of ‘every _____ film in a day’, my flatmate and I decided attempting to watch every Star Wars film in, indeed, a day. Yes we are crazy. That’s two trilogies, totalling about 12 ½ hours. 12 ½ hours of lightsabers, but thankfully, only two hours of Jar Jar Binks. We were going to have to start early. I remarked that we probably couldn’t do it, that our chances were 4,756 to one, but Mickey was having none of it: ‘Never tell me the odds’ he said.
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7th November 2011
Never Judge a Book by its Film Cover
We ask whether a film adaptation can ever be as good as the original book
17th October 2011
All Hail King Kermode!
With the release of his book, ‘The Good, The Bad and The Multiplex’, we take a look at the UK’s foremost film critic: Mark Kermode