Film Review: L’Atalante
Hyde Park Picture House’s Valentine’s Day screening of Jean Vigo’s L’Atalante was quite lovely.
Oscars Lowdown
The BAFTAs may be over for another year but the show must go on. Next up in awards season is the Oscars. Leeds Student gives you the lowdown on this year’s awards. Best Picture Hugo leads nominations at this year’s Academy Awards having received a total of eleven nods, including ‘Best Director’ for Martin Scorsese. [...]
Film: The Vow
Director: Michael Sucsy Starring: Channing Tatum, Rachel McAdams, Sam Niell 3/5 Leo (Tatum) and Paige (McAdams) meet after she rebels from Law School and ditches her conservative family in search of a new and exciting Bohemian life in the city. She becomes a sculptor, he a music producer, and they live happily in their shabby-chic [...]
Film: The Woman in Black
Director: James Watkins Starring: Daniel Radcliffe, Ciarán Hinds, Janet McTeer 3/5 I will admit that I did not know there was a book on which this film is supposedly based; I was under the impression that it was based on the very popular West End play. As it turns out, this version in fact follows [...]
Film: The Muppets
Director: James Bobin Starring: Amy Adams, Jason Segel, Chris Cooper, Rashida Jones 5/5 The film adheres to a great formula that is entertaining regardless of your familiarity with the felt gang It’s been a while since Jim Henson’s puppets graced the big or the small screen, but the Muppets’ insane popularity meant a comeback was [...]
Film Review: Before Sunrise
Rating: 4 stars Dreicted by: Richard Linklater Starring: Ethan Hawke, Julia Deply, Andrea Eckert As part of Hyde Park Picture House’s Creature’s of the Night programme, Valentine’s special. Harking back to the early 1990s, to the high time of American independent cinema, filmmaker Richard Linklater was making cult classics Slacker and Dazed and Confused. He [...]
LS Arts Blog the BAFTAs
It’s the biggest British TV and movie event of the year and you can follow it all here live with our Arts Editors and a host of celebrities from 7:30 this evening.
Film Review: Bombay Beach
Rating: 4 stars In the mid-20th Century Bombay Beach was a modish desert beach resort, but fifty years later it has fallen into dilapidation and disrepair. The bodies of dead fish line the shores of the saline lake and shells of old caravan trailers lie rusting in the sand. The American Dream could not survive [...]
Film Review: Don’t Think
Rating: 4 stars Most cinematic experiences require you to essentially spend 90-odd minutes as a passive vessel into which whatever’s on the screen can empty its ideas and cares. Don’t Think, on the other hand, hangs a carrot on a stick to the ADD-riddled infant in me who comes roaring out during any film screening. [...]