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Top 5: Awkward sex scenes

Lloyd Hammett gives us his Top 5 scenes we’d probably all rather forget

Review: Robocop

According to Tom Bruce, the 1987 ‘Robocop’ was in no need of a re-boot

Contrary Corner: ‘Rush’ really grinds my gears

For Tom Bruce, ‘Rush’ was somewhat of a cinematic false-start

Cornerhouse Pick of the Week: Rough Cut

Matthew Thomas reviews Jamie Shovlin’s latest project, commissioned by Manchester’s Cornerhouse

Preview: Maleficent

Parizad Mangi looks ahead to the release of Disney’s ‘Sleeping Beauty’ spin-off

Top 5: 70’s Soundtracks

Ant Cornish gives us his top 5 sounds of the seventies

Great Danes

Film editor Sophie James discusses how the talent of one country is leaving its mark on the world of TV and cinema

Cornerhouse Pick of the Week: How to Survive a Plague

Tom Bruce reviews this powerful documentary that should be on everyone’s watch list

Contrary Corner: Menage a Toys

Angus tells us why he believes Toy Story is the only truly perfect film trilogy

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’

Contrary Corner: Waxing on The Wackness

Zach Fuller bigs up an underrated and overshadowed gem from 2008, starring Ben Kingsley and Mary Kate Olsen

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

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

Review: Parkland

Jack Crutcher reviews the political drama ‘Parkland’

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 […]

Review: The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

Was the second installment of ‘The Hunger Games’ franchise a sizzling success? Mark McGrath gives us his view

Cornerhouse Pick of the Week: Blue is the Warmest Colour

Jack Evans reviews the controversial Palme d’Or winner from this year’s Cannes Film Festival

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 […]

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 […]

Preview: Noah

Jack Crutcher discusses Darren Aronofsky’s cinematic turn from the balletic to the biblical