Café Society

A directionless New Yorker moves out to Hollywood so that he can find some kind of purpose in life in Woody Allen’s Café Society. It’s a very familiar story that we will all have seen done a thousand times before. Nothing about the plot of the film will come across as surprising. Bobby (Jesse Eisenberg)…

The Big Short

Adam McKay’s The Big Short chronicles the cause of the worldwide recession that we all remember from only a few years ago. The recent financial crisis is something that we all know about but who can actually claim they know what actually caused it? I know I can’t but I’ve always been told that the…

On the Silver Screen – Foxcatcher

Bennett Miller’s Foxcatcher adapts the true story of Olympic wrestler Mark Schultz (Channing Tatum) being taken under the wing of a strange and dangerous sponsor named John du Pont (Steve Carell). Before going into the screening I knew almost nothing about the truth behind the story and that’s probably the best way to approach this…