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 […]

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 […]

Nicole Rankine reviews the latest installment in the Thor franchise

According to Suraj Vara, cars should stay on the road and out of the cinema

Gravity gets a thumbs up from The Mancunion with graphics and acting that are, quite simply, out of this world

 Our good nation weathered quite a storm a fortnight ago, but it’s not over yet. Get ready to batten down the proverbial hatches once more because this list features some of the worst weather ever seen on the silver screen.   5. The Day After Tomorrow (2004) One of the more believable and well-acted disaster […]

Our Cornerhouse Pick of the Week is Stephen Frears’ latest cinematic hit

Jack Crutcher tells us why he believes that Mark Wahlberg is in the wrong job

Jackson Ball gives us his top 5 christopher nolan countdown of leading ladies who didn’t make it to the end of the film

Jack Evans looks ahead to the much-anticpated return of the Scorcese-DiCaprio duo

Sarah countdowns the musical moments in movies which make you want to stand up and boogie

Film Editor Sophie James previews Ralph Fiennes’ next directing venture

Jackson Ball gives us his take on the ‘Iron Man’ trilogy

Sarah Murray previews the eagerly-anticipated Beat biopic ‘Kill Your Darlings’

Francesca Tyler gives us her top 5 fatherly figures in film

Tom tells us why he is one of the few to hate The Hobbit

Lloyd gives us his Top 5 machines with movie magic

With only a month to go until its release, Parizad previews the latest instalment in the Hunger Games franchise

Ally discusses why film should turn from fact to fiction

Faye Broadbent discusses how cinema made philosophy fun in our Cornerhouse pick of the week