by Leah Stone

The Fault in Our Stars seems to be the latest book-to-film adaption. 

The book follows the story of Hazel Grace Lancaster, a terminally Ill sufferer of Thyroid cancer and Metastatis on her lungs since she was 13, and has so far lived with her disease because of an experimental drug called Phalanxifor. She is forced by her parents to go to a weekly support group for kids with cancer, and there she has become friends with Isaac, who lost an eye due to cancer at a young age. Isaac brings his best friend, Augustus Waters, to the support group. August is a sufferer too, after losing his leg to osteosarcoma and was once a basketball star, but now is in remission. Joined together by the love of a book, Hazel and ‘Gus’ begin to spend more and more time together. Hazel begins to pull away from Gus as they become closer, because she wants to spare him the pain that her eventual death will cause him, as he lost his former girlfriend to cancer. Gus had spared his wish from ‘The Genies’ (a fictional Make a Wish Foundation) and wanted to use it to fly himself and Hazel to Amsterdam to meet Peter Van Houton, the author of the book they both passionately loved.

By Jo Johnstone 

There are still some great movies in your cinemas. Jo tells you not to miss The Way Way Back!

We’ve all been there. We all know the story. Its happened to me, you and everyone around you. You’d think that maybe we’d be board of it by now but then a gem such as The Way Way Back reminds you why the coming of age genre will never fade into obscurity. The story of the end to adolescence is eternal, introducing us to a character finding his way in the world.

In this case, it is fourteen year old Duncan (Liam James), our uncertain and isolated lead. Duncan travels to a beach town for the summer along with his mother Pam, (Toni Collette), her boyfriend Trent, (Steve Carell) and his spoilt daughter Steph. Trent is almost emotionally abusing towards Duncan, though his mother can’t see. They travel to Cape Cod, supposedly an ideal summer destination. For Duncan, this isn’t the case and he is alone; distanced from his mother. For Duncan, it is a nightmare. With no one to communicate with, Duncan finds a pink girls bike in the shed and sets out to explore the town. He makes friends with Owen, (Sam Rockwell) the manager of a local water park where he begins working. It’s here that Duncan feels at home and with the help of Owen and his band of misfit staff he begins to find comfort from home and find himself.

By Jo Johnstone 

With Filth hitting our cinemas on 27th of September, Jo says Hit Play on another Irvine Welsh adaptation.

Choose life. 

Choose an award winning novel by Irvine Welsh.

Choose an up and coming British director and a young cast of unknown actors.

Choose a gritty Scottish setting.

Or, like the characters of the iconic Brit-flick Trainspotting, you can forget all of that and choose heroin instead.

by Max Bosshart 


Written, directed, and produced by the Soska twins, Jen and Sylvia, American Mary is a shining example of independent horror at its best. It won five awards at Screamfest 2012, including best picture. It’s a beautifully crafted film; boasting a unique story and a stunning cast.

Mary Mason (Katharine Isabelle) is a medical student struggling to make ends meet. She finds herself in need of fast cash and finds it through Billy Barker (Antonio Cupo,) Beatress Johnson (Tristan Risk,) and the world of underground body modification surgery. There, Mary's life takes a radical shift down a dark path.

by Matthew Howe

There's only one Stephen Soderbergh. The filmmaker who broke out huge in the late 80's with Sex, Lies and Videotapes, fell into near obscurity with Kafka and Underneath, then climbed back to prominence with Erin Brockovich. He even found Hollywood respectability with the Oceans series. Soderbergh has made a lot of movies. And some of his best work hasn't gotten the attention it deserves.

If you want a masters-level course in film adaptation, study Soderbergh's Out of Sight, the 1998 film version of the Elmore Leonard novel of the same name. Scott Frank's adaptation improves on the novel in a hundred different ways. The biggest change is the substitution of Leonard's mostly liner storytelling with a more non-linear, flashback based structure that turns what were predictable or even pedestrian moments in the novel into delightful surprises 

by Leah Stone 

Potterheads, grab your wands, send letters to your wizarding friends, change into your robes and pack your trunk; we are back off into the wizarding world. Well, more precisely, New York. Yes, that’s right, there is going to be another Harry Potter film. But it’s not a sequel or a prequel, but based on the text book Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, by Newt Scamander, as a part of a whole new film series. The Potterheads are coming back fighting, a few years since the last film release. They’ve waited for this day to come, trying to stay sane with the thought that perhaps the Wizarding World would not return. But we’ve done our waiting, 2 years of it, in emotional trauma.

by Cookie 'N' Screen

Earlier on this evening, I did a run down of the Best British Accents by Non Brits. Of course, we heavily featured some of the greatest accent changing hijinks from Robert Downey Jr to Nicole Kidman. And boy, there were some greats.

This all being well and good, unfortunately, not everyone does the same good job; delving into a bunch of horrible clichés with plumb bushes coming out of their mouths. So here is another list of the Worst British Accents, only this time its all “allo gavner” and all that malarkey!

By Helen Fulton

With any biopic, the most important thing is accuracy.  The right words, the best look-a-like, the right clothes and everything looking like it's just jumped out of that time period. After seeing the trailer for Rush, I was satisfied that I would not be disappointed with this film and I was not.

Rush is a film by Ron Howard and starring Chris Hemsworth and Daniel Bruhl, is about a rivalry between two famous Formula One drivers; James Hunt and Niki Lauda. The movie centres on a devastating crash in Nuremberg  and the events leading up to it as well as the events after. But Rush is a tale about the differences, the competition and the contest between Hunt and Lauda and how that conflict drove the famous world of Formula One racing.

by Alex Doust

Who doesn’t love a good slasher film? 

Today is Friday the 13th, I’m going to try and sell you all on the Friday the 13th film franchise. So if you’ve never watched one before take a read of this and see what you think. 

Friday the 13th (1980)

We start the film series with a sad story, the story of a little boy; a special little boy. His name was Jason and he was staying at camp Crystal Lake. The campers who were supposed to be watching him were off having sex and Jason drowned. His mother Pamela (Betsy Palmer) is determined to make sure the camp never reopens, when a group of councillors take residence in the old camp with intentions to re-open it, a series of gruesome murders begin to occur, it becomes blood soaked frenzy and you’re lucky if you survive the night…

By Cookie 'N' Screen


Did you miss any of the hottest film news this week? Have you been away from the internet or under a rock? Don’t worry because Cookie has a roundup of the latest film news that you can read while you are blinking in the new sunlight... 


- Potterheads unite! The biggest news this week comes straight from J.K Rowling. She is penning a script for a movie based on her book Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them. It is set 70 years before Harry Potter in the roaring twenties but will feature familiar characters. Get our your robes and wands, it’s time to be spell bound again! 

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