The Review at the End of the Universe
Disney retells the tale as old as time in Bill Condon’s live action adaptation of their animated classic Beauty and the Beast. Everyone surely knows the story by now. A prince is cursed to live out his days as a beast unless he can find true love before the last petal of a rose falls….
Tate Taylor’s The Girl on the Train adapts the novel of the same name written by Paula Hawkins. The story follows an alcoholic divorcee who finds herself caught up in a missing persons investigation. The Girl on the Train is a difficult film to review as so much hinges on the twists and turns built…
Ben Wheatley’s High Rise is the screen adaption of J.G. Ballard’s 1975 novel of the same name. There have been numerous rumoured attempts to get this off the ground over the years, and director Ben Wheatley (Sightseers, A Field in England) is the one to finally manage it. Set in a version of the seventies…
Peter Jackson’s closes out his trilogy with The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies and gives a sendoff to his Middle Earth saga. Many had said over the course of this trilogy that turning a short and uncomplicated book like The Hobbit into 3 films was absolute madness and initially I was in agreement…
Luke Evans is the latest actor to portray the iconic role of Dracula in Dracula Untold, a film that serves as something of an origin story for the famous vampire. An opening narration establishes the context of the story which has the prince, Vlad the Impaler renowned in his homeland as being something of a…
