Donald Trump makes a great villain. The sunny disposition that clouds into a demon scowl (when confronted by cheeky interviewers). The bionic hair. The chutzpah. At one moment in A Dangerous Game, Anthony Baxter’s sequel to You’ve Been Trumped, his documentary about the billionaire’s golf-course-building invasion of Scotland, Trump stands on a green receiving a plaque from the “American Academy of Hospitality Sciences”. Turns out: the Academy has three trustees, one named Donald Trump.
by Liam McMillen
Donald Trump makes a great villain. The sunny disposition that clouds into a demon scowl (when confronted by cheeky interviewers). The bionic hair. The chutzpah. At one moment in A Dangerous Game, Anthony Baxter’s sequel to You’ve Been Trumped, his documentary about the billionaire’s golf-course-building invasion of Scotland, Trump stands on a green receiving a plaque from the “American Academy of Hospitality Sciences”. Turns out: the Academy has three trustees, one named Donald Trump. by Jo Johnstone Every now and then a film will come along that is so silly it throws away all film logic and taste. Despite the sensible, Brandy drinking film critic in your head you just have to like and admire it. Cats & Dogs is one of those films that despite its silliness leaves you with a warn and goofy feeling. The film dramatises the eternal feud between man's best friends and our feline companions. Add in celebrity voices, animal CGI and Bond style espionage you have a riot of a film. by Cookie N Screen Stop what you are doing! The latest news from Marvel HQ has come into our grasps and it has made us so intensely excited. The scary thing is? It’s only a small blurb about the film and yet we’re already adorned in our Captain America costume and calling our friends whispering one word; Assemble. I guess what it means is that with a synopsis in our grasps we are actually on our way to receiving a trailer and footage! What will that mean? It means that we are just a day closer and knowing exactly what it entails is titillating to say the least. Manchester based paper mache tyrant Frank had been louting it up on our television screens for as long as we can remember. And now he has been immortalized on the screen. Out on DVD today, Frank is loosely by Ronson's own memoirs about cult-comedy icon Frank Sidebottom, hence the instantly recognisable paper mache head that Michael Fassbender wears throughout the majority of the film. This probably goes someway to explaining the story - Jon (Gleeson), joins up with Frank's (Fassbender) band after their keyboard player is institutionalised. Jon believes that this will finally allow for his dream of becoming a singer to come true, however he quickly finds that not all is at it seems. Frank's band is, for lack of a better phrase, extremely out there. All members seem to have mental health problems in various degrees and their methods in producing music are alternative. But is it good or bad? Vanessa andLiam battle it out! by Cookie N Screen Ah Great Britain, we're a brilliant nation, aren't we? Once we were an Empire, built on the backbone of pillaging, slavery and exploitation. Ah yes, Great Britain. Now what I believe makes our country great today is our diversity, swarms of races and sexualities have been birthed and homed here, giving us a spectrum of backgrounds untied in solidarity. And yet a few people seem to perpetuate the notion of white, straight folk bigotry and all that nonsense. The backlash of LGBT cinema pouring into our nation swells with the importance of uniting, together, everyone against regimes that may tie us down. And no film, in recent years will make you proud to be British more so than Pride. by Hayley Louise Charlesworth The release of Pride yesterday into UK cinemas is just one of a number of films that have mined (excuse the unintentional pun) the years of the Thatcher government, and particularly the miner’s strike, for potential. Pride sees the striking Welsh miners unite with another group attacked in Thatcher’s years, the LGBT community, in protest. Thatcher’s legacy on the silver screen, with the exception of The Iron Lady, has not been a positive one, with the focus squarely on the people most negatively affected by her policies. Why that is is an interesting debate, but we need to look at the films in question to uncover it. Movie poster are amazing, aren’t they? Next to trailers, they are our first indication that a film is going to be excellent. They are so prominent in our culture that buses are adorned with them, billboards stand massively in streets with the words “Coming Soon” to tantalise our cinematic taste buds. If done well, they are wondrous collections of artistry that depict the tone of the film whether it is action, thriller or romance. But sometimes, movie poster artists get it wrong. And not wrong as in, carbon copy of everything that has come before, it’s much more like on the night before submitting the work, they got drunk and ham-handedly put something together before the proposal. And everyone strangely went along with it. To make it worse, some genuinely great films own get the shitty poster treatement. So Willam and Cookie have gotten together to go through the worse movie poster for great films . Here are Cookie's, stay tuned for Will's! by Cookie N Screen We love stop-motion animation here. Just ask our resident expert Jo Johnstone, who tackles the stirring and important art form with much celebration on a monthly basis. Stop-motion animation is a craft, it is a wonderful excruciating and technical medium that produces highly developed films with bounds of imagination. Though many studios tend to favour the computer side of animation, studios such as Laika and directors like Henry Selick are still championing these courageous art forms. With the release of The Boxtrolls today, let’s have a look at some of the best stop animation movies. |
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