The Secret Life of Pets

The question of what pets do when their owners aren’t around is finally answered in Chris Renaud and Yarrow Cheney’s The Secret Life of Pets. Obviously this film isn’t a documentary or anything like that but I thought it’d be a good opening line. This film adopts the Toy Story mould of having something that…

Finding Dory

As part of the Edinburgh International Film Festival I was lucky enough to have access to a preview screening of Pixar’s latest outing Finding Dory directed by Andrew Stanton and Angus MacLane. Finding Dory is the much anticipated sequel to the Pixar highpoint Finding Nemo so immediately it has a very tough act to follow….

On the Silver Screen – A Most Violent Year

J.C. Chandor’s A Most Violent Year is a crime drama set during 1981 -the most violent year in New York history- focusing on immigrant business owner Abel Morales (Oscar Isaac) who tries to run his business legitimately in an era of corruption. The cast of this film all do a stunning job. Oscar Isaac seems…