Reuniting the Rubins
Directed by: Yoav Factor Starring: Timothy Spall, Honor Blackman, James Caliis, Rhona Mitra Showing at the Showcase Cinema, Leeds 4/5 Written and directed by Yoav Factor, an ex-film student at Leeds University, Reuniting the Rubins tells the story of Lenny Rubins (Timothy Spall), a man who tries to fulfill his mother’s (Honor Blackman from Goldfinger) [...]
Theatre: The Playboy of the Western World by J.M Synge
Old Vic 22/10/2011 Director: John Crowley Cast: Niamh Cusack, Ruth Negga, Robert Sheehan Rating: 4 stars For those of you who slavishly tried to make a good impression when you started University this year, The Playboy of the Western World might strike a chord. However, hopefully you, unlike J.M Synge’s unlikely hero, didn’t try to [...]
Paranormal Activity 3
Set eighteen years before the first film, Paranormal Activity 3 is follows the childhood of sisters Katie and Kristi, protagonists of Paranormal 1 and 2. In this prequel, a series of inexplicable events begin to arise as Julie and Dennis, the children’s mother and her boyfriend, notice Kristi talking to her apparently imaginary friend. This [...]
Tyrannosaur
starring: Olivia Colman, Peter Mullan, Eddie Marsan Rating: 4/5 In actor Paddy Considine’s intensely powerful directorial debut, we begin to get to know Joseph in pubs. Here he spends the afternoons tanking up with beer before lashing out at other patrons, eventually taking his anger out on his closest friend: his dog. Hannah’s part in the story [...]
The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn
You would be hard pressed to find someone who doesn’t know or recognize Hergé’s Tintin; his collection of 24 books have been translated into 80 languages and have sold over 200 million copies, leaving many ‘tintinologists’ in its wake. Hergé’s Tintin is very much a product of the Second World War – something he shares [...]
Adam Buxton Presents: BUG The Evolution of Music Video
It is a Monday night in October and it’s raining in the north of England, but for the people attending BUG at Hyde Park Picture House, their glumness ends here. Walking into the art-house cinema, the rain-soaked crowd were greeted by a video of a well-bearded Adam Buxton riding his bike through London counting down [...]
Moon/Galaxy Quest – Creatures of the Night
The Hyde Park Picture House casts a curious spell over people. There’s something about it that makes you want to invest heavily in Euromillions lottery tickets and start trawling the internet for grade 2 listed properties. However, even if we were all able to become proprietors of Edwardian cinemas, I doubt we could carry off [...]
We Need to Talk About Kevin
Lionel Shriver’s novel We Need to Talk About Kevin stunned the world by combining disturbing terror with the supposed safety of domesticity. It is a chilling epistolary narrative that is bound to find itself on university syllabuses in years to come. The film remains faithful to the plot but nevertheless subverts the book’s interpretative [...]
Creatures of the Night: The Royal Tenenbaums
Director: Wes Anderson Cast: Gene Hackman, Angelica Huston, Ben Stiller, Luke Wilson, Gwyneth Paltrow Every Saturday night at 11pm art house cinema Hyde Park Picture House shows a wildly intense and sublimely bizarre film designed to fright and freak. Simone Gayle popped down to this week’s screening, The Royal Tenenbaums, to see what all the crazy fuss was [...]