The Review at the End of the Universe
A British film crew attempts to boost morale during the Second World War by making a light hearted propaganda film about Dunkirk in Lone Scherfig’s Their Finest. Films about making films are always interesting to unpack because the art of film-making is all about telling a story so making a film about telling a story immediately…
Thea Sharrock’s Me Before You adapts the Jojo Moyes bestselling novel of the same name to tell the story of a small town girl who falls for a paralysed man she is employed to take care of. Emilia Clarke plays Louisa Clark, the small town girl in question who is very much a prisoner of…
Everyone loves a prequel! No? Well, if not surely you’ll love sequels then? No? Well, never fear, welcome to first time director Cedric Nicolas-Troyan’s The Huntsman: Winter’s War, the first prequel/sequel hybrid, a psequel if you like, that I can remember since 300: Rise of an Empire! Set before, and after, the events of 2012’s…
Finally it’s over. The Hunger Games franchise comes to an end with The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2 where Katniss and the rest of her band of rebels take the fight to the Capitol to change the world once and for all. Some of you may remember my review of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part…
The film adaptation of the final Hunger Games novel Mockingjay begins here with part 1 of a 2 part story set to round off the series. Doing things this way is becoming something of a trend among Young Adult franchises to pretty mixed results thus far. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows pioneered this approach…
Lone Scherfig directs the film adaptation of Laura Wade’s play Posh. Wade also pens the screenplay for this adaption titled The Riot Club focusing on two new members of the Oxford university exclusive society The Riot Club – a club where only the self appointed 10 best students in the university may be members. It’s something…
