That Film Thing | Mainlining your movie fix…

There will be blood… 
There’s nothing subtle about 300: Rise Of An Empire. Its dialogue never rises above the snappy exchanges that would fit easily in the lettered boxes of comic books. In fact, given the stylised visuals mimicking that printed form, which is what...

Some parts missing…
In case you hadn’t figured it out yet, film studios like remakes because of the in-built audience they expect to attract thanks to ‘brand recognition’. However, there’s also an inherent problem with retooling a ‘classic...

Clever dog…
Hands up if you can name a kids’ film that contains an image showing disembowelling? Head to the cinema to see Mr. Peabody & Sherman and that’s just one of the treats you’ll be rewarded with.
From the second Sherman replaces the kid sitting in the moon in the DreamWorks logo, you know the animators have poured a lot of heart, soul and fun into this animated adventure. The story of a genius dog who adopts a boy and builds a time machine to...

The con is on… 
Films with no explosions, no car chases, no CGI monsters and just a heap of dialogue – they don’t still make those, do they? American Hustle is that rare thing: a period movie with as much brains as style. Set in the late ’80s and early...