by Sean Narborough 

In part two of my series of looking at The Last of Us film adaption from a film perspective, I get into the nitty-gritty of it: the characters and moments that are essential for the film to work and what can be cut from it. On YouTube there is a 6-hour edit of the game that includes all the cinematics and the moments of gameplay that are necessary for the story. For obvious reasons you can’t have a film that is 6 hours long. So I started looking at what can be cut from the film and what needs to stay in to make sense of the story and still keep the essence of the story intact. I’m going to go through each part of the story in detail from beginning to end, so…

Again, Warning: Major Spoilers Ahead!

by Cookie N Screen

Posh. In some circles, it’s a word spat out in venom. When you think of the word “posh”, you immediately think of toffs with an abundance of riches, swilling port in lavish private clubs from their crystal glasses and smoking cigars made of unicorn hair. That may sound ridiculous but the connotations surrounding the upper-classes is sometimes so reviled that you wonder what they ever did to upset the masses. And then you remember the Tory Government and the man who is currently the Prime Minister. Not meaning to stereotype because I’m sure there is a lavish amount of people with millions who are genuinely altruistic and nice, but most people hate people who flash the cash without realising that in a lot of ways, it’s because we want it to. What we actually hate is privilege. Those who think their riches allows them to exert power of them, that they are better than you because they have a wad of cash in their pocket. It’s those people that are portrayed in The Riot Club.

by Cookie N Screen

There is a special rung in hell for people who, in the depths of the shadows as the film flickers on, turn in loud whisper (speaking, full blown speaking,) and says “ooooo, that person is from (insert obscure comedy show that aired in 1997 and was swiftly cancelled).” Either that or they whip out their phones (straight after screening, of course. During is the rung way down below,) tormented with the recognition but not the answer, bombard IMDB and scream “oooooooooohhhhhhh” when they realise who it is. I fall into both, I am on this rung and as I pulled out my internet after the latest screening of Pride, I promptly put it down and said “no. fucking. way.” 

by Alli Kett 

Honeymoon is the first feature length film that Leigh Janiak has written and directed, and it's quite the debut.

Honeymoon sees Rose Leslie's Bea and Harry Treadaway's, Paul just married, their relationship harmonious. They have chosen a near isolated cabin in the woods to celebrate their honeymoon. Meeting Bea's macho ex boyfriend, Paul jokingly feels like he's not manly enough when he is juxtaposed against the physically controlling man. As they continue with their honeymoon, when Paul finds Bea in a cataonic state, it is clear there is something malevolent presence in the cabin the debilitate Bea's demeanour. The benevolent Paul must exert his strength against the spiritual ambience when worsens. With this in mind, Paul goes to that idea when it appears there is a malevolent presence creeping about

by Matthew Howe

I was talking to my brother-in-law about the trainwreck that was the 2011 Arthur remake. For those of you who have not seen Arthur (the original) it is a true classic. The remake, not so much.

Our mutual beef was the casting. Russell Brand is great in some movies. Get Him to the Greek, classic. Forgetting Sarah Marshal, another classic. But he failed as Arthur almost as spectacularly as Greta Gerwig shone as Naomi. (in a weird bizarro twist, it was Liza Minnelli as Arthur's love interest Linda in the original that left one wondering what the casting director was high on.)

by Aly Lalji 

In 2001, director Antoine Fuqua had directed Denzel Washington in Training Day. History was made as Denzel was the second black actor to win Best Actor in a Leading Role, taking the reign from Sidney Poitier’s 1964 win. Progress for African Americans evolved as barriers were finally broken. Now  Fuqua and Washington have teamed up again in action thriller The Equalizer almost thirteen years later.

We can imagine how the conversations went; a formal sit down at the table as they discuss the finer details. "How can this help me win an Oscar?" whilst a silece descends in the offices as Fuqua answers "It won't! But you are going to entertain the hell out of of your audience, being all cool, calm and collected." And with that Washington smiled and said, "hell yeah!"  

by Sean Narborough 

When the news broke that top selling video game The Last of Us was going to be adapted into a film, I knew I needed to write something this. I decided to write about the film adaption from a film perspective, but the more and more I started working on it, the longer and longer it got. So to make it easier I’ve spilt my article into a four part series. Part 1 looks at the story and why it can work for Hollywood, parts 2 and 3 look at the characters and moments of the story that are essential and non-essential and part 4 looks at the ultimate question, can the film adaption work at all?

WARNING: Major Spoilers Ahead!

by Sean Narborough

No not the game, so calm AC fanboys.

The film adaption of the multi-million dollar best selling game, Assassin’s Creed, has been delayed. Originally scheduled to come out on the 7th August 2015, 20th Century Fox has pushed back the popular franchise to an “unspecified 2016 release date”. Fox have claimed that the film will simply not be ready in time for the 2015 release date. But this is both good and bad news. It’s bad news for video game film adaptions, which don’t have the best reputation. Many of them fail to draw people into the cinema and never really get a sequel or a second chance, with the exception of the Resident Evil movie franchise. Assassin’s Creed was seen as the rebirth of the video game adaptions due to the game’s huge popularity and uniquely different story, and the fact that they had signed Michael Fassbender to star and produce the film too. It was seen as possibly The Dark Knight of the video game adaptions.

But this delay is also good. Fox have said that the film’s not ready yet for next year, which means this gives the filmmakers time to improve on the film. The pressure the film has to kick start video game adaptions is huge, and this now gives them time to perfect a quite complicated story and film. Also so far there hasn’t been anything shown from the film, no teasers, no posters, no set photos, nothing. This works hugely in Fox’s favour. Because they haven’t set a release date for 2016, they can now wait until they have something truly great to show audiences and not tease audiences with something subpar. Whether the delay will be good or bad for Assassin’s Creed, we’ll have to wait, but the extra time now to improve the film is only going to add more pressure for the film.   

Because the outstanding poster artwork for this incredible Christopher Nolan film needs its own article