Category Archives: Reviews
Review: Headhunters
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REVIEW BY SAM MOORE From its opening moment, with it’s effective camerawork and VoiceOver, Headhunters immediately establishes itself as a film that is calculated and stylish, much like its lead characters. However, its issue is when it begins to deviate from
Review: This Must Be The Place
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It’s not too fair from the truth to say This Must Be the Place has a couple of massive handicaps to overcome for the film to be commercially successful. Firstly at a time of global recession and austerity it’s pretty
DVD Review: The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn
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Friend of Down With Film and fantastic film writer Mike Williams (AKA The Littlest Picture Show) reviews The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn A movie version of the beloved Hergé books and television show has been on
Review for “War of the Arrows”
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A couple of months ago, I reviewed the disappointing Japanese epic Yamada: The Samurai of Aythoya which failed to really convince me to embrace the traditions of Asian cinema when it came to enthralling action-adventures. But then along came War of
The Ultimate Spoiler Free Cabin In The Woods Review
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We’ll have a much deeper spoiler filled review coming up this week for Cabin in the Woods. Words by Sam Moore A great deal of the fun of ‘Cabin…’ is not knowing exactly what to expect when you go to
Review: Sensation
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Sian Dawson reviews Sensation Despite Tom Hall’s Sensation opening with lonely and sexually frustrated Donal (Domhnall Gleeson) A.K.A “Sweetdick”, hiding in his families land, masturbating to his secret stash whilst his sheep look on, it is clear that this film will
Review: The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists
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Marcus Woolcott gives us his views on The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists This is a very silly film. It’s completely stupid, often makes no sense at all, and frequently goes off on random tangents for no reason. Subsequently,
Review: The Hunger Games
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. Originally I never had any intention of seeing The Hunger Games. The trailer didn’t appeal to me when I saw it some months ago and I, like many people, dismissed it as an excuse to market Battle Royale to
DVD Review: Puss In Boots
Following the end of one of the most popular franchises of the noughties’, Dreamworks decided to keep the memories of the Shrek films alive by making a spin-off looking at the legend of one of its most beloved characters; feline
DVD Review: The Debt
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2011 really was the year spy films made a huge comeback, with the skyscraper shenanigans of Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol and the slow burner that was Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy., its clear that the average cinema goer has a
