Category Archive: Review

REVIEW: WALDEN

Walden – Dancebase 3/5 Over the years X Factor has taken hostage of the phrase “journey”, as week after week we hear Coldplay in the background of an emotional but ultimately ridiculous montage.… Continue reading

FILM: SCOTT PILGRIM VS THE WORLD

If life was only as simple as a dance machine. We could be a hop skip and a slide away from the perfectly synchronised relationship. Sadly we make bad moves and lose our… Continue reading

FILM: WATERCOLORS

First love and sexuality as a teenager in America are disappointedly explored in “Watercolors”

REVIEW: A SINGLE MAN

Its hard to think of what has not already been said about this stunning film. “A return to form for Colin First” seems a ridiculous statement. Just because we may have become dissolutioned… Continue reading

REVIEW: PRECIOUS

So recently Precious has been shrouded by praise and publicity and recognised for its outstanding performances (and interesting cameos). Therefore, its fair to say that I went in watching the film with a… Continue reading

REVIEW: SEX AND DRUGS AND ROCK AND ROLL

The curtain opens, the spotlight is in position and just like that the pale faced, charismatic, DIY aficionado himself appears. Ian Dury quickly became an 80’s icon for his haphazard performances and inspired… Continue reading

REVIEW: NOWHERE BOY

We hear the first note of ‘A Hard Day’s Night” and that is all, but its powerful enough to transport us in to 50’s Liverpool and with this we enter the early life… Continue reading

REVIEW: SHERLOCK HOLMES

Who knew Sherlock Holmes was a lean, mean ripped fighting machine? With a bang comes the return of the well known cockney geezer director Guy Richie whose newest adventure just goes to show… Continue reading

REVIEW: AN EDUCATION

An Education has it all. A gripping true story, a screenplay by Nick Hornby and two leading actors who effervesce off the screen. It tells the tale of Jenny (Carey Mulligan), a girl… Continue reading

REVIEW: DESPERATE ROMANTICS

Desperate Romantics is currently invading our screen and rightfully so. There is modernity to the series that you should not expect from a period drama. But this is where it differs from all… Continue reading