Mockumentaries are one of the weirdest genre of movie. After all, you have to hit the right tone in order for it to sell properly. All the while, you have to make it look like an authentic documentary and spoof those elements accurately. So it is a tentative process that only few have mastered including the phenomenal This is Spinal Tap and the British wedding romp Confetti. Yet levitating up to the legendary ranks, so legendary that I can just see the Quote Alongs in the future with people dressed up as the characters, is What We Do In The Shadows. Ok, so, I may be saying that because I immediately went and brought myself a cravat after my first of many screenings. But What We Do In The Shadows has already created a cult of fans who haven’t stopped saying the lines since its release.
by Cookie N Screen
Mockumentaries are one of the weirdest genre of movie. After all, you have to hit the right tone in order for it to sell properly. All the while, you have to make it look like an authentic documentary and spoof those elements accurately. So it is a tentative process that only few have mastered including the phenomenal This is Spinal Tap and the British wedding romp Confetti. Yet levitating up to the legendary ranks, so legendary that I can just see the Quote Alongs in the future with people dressed up as the characters, is What We Do In The Shadows. Ok, so, I may be saying that because I immediately went and brought myself a cravat after my first of many screenings. But What We Do In The Shadows has already created a cult of fans who haven’t stopped saying the lines since its release.
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by Cookie N Screen
Family fun now comes in threes. Or fives by today’s Hollywood standards. Frankly, if you have succeeded in thrilling the children once then you are guaranteed to spout out loads of different movies with the same characters because nothing thrills the pint-sized kiddiewinks more than repetition. It’s all smart concoction that peddles out these films in order for you to shell over more dosh to keep your children snot-nosed and happy. Only, there are sometimes family movie trilogies that have forethought and planning so by the time the third movie roles around, you feel as though an entire story has been completed and characters have journeyed well. This is kind of the feeling Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb has.
by Cookie N Screen
Happy Days and all that goodness, a brand new Marvel television series is back into our midst and we are so excited to see Stardust’s Charlie Cox don the suit of Matt Murdock - a blind superhero who dresses up in spandex and romps around New York solving crimes. Nevertheless, the series has already been met with some contention seeing as the only incarnation on the big screen was Ben Affleck’s romp in latex. Whilst it makes for an impressive stepping stone on the road to becoming Batman, the film was met with critical and commercial failure. Now Netflix is attempting to bring the hero back so it’s adequate time to look back at the film.
by Sean Narborough
As the biggest Christopher Nolan fanboy, my expectations for his latest film were set incredibly high. And despite the odd problem here and there, I wasn’t disappointed. Interstellar was Nolan’s first venture into the sci-fi genre and starred many big name actors, including Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain and, because it’s a Nolan film, Michael Caine. In a world where food supplies are running out and the possibility of a real human extinction in just a generation, former pilot Cooper (McConaughey) is tasked on leading a team into a wormhole to find a new suitable home for mankind. But once through the wormhole, nothing is quite what it seems. Now before I go any further, I must warn everyone that I’m about to go into SPOILER territory, so if you haven’t seen Interstellar yet, you have been warned. Still here? Good, then let’s travel through the wormhole. by Cookie N Screen There is an advert bounding around right now that sees a man and his dog who walk around his unknown town screaming, understandably mad about this expensive designer store. The message is something along the lines of not allowing a middle man to take all your money and head to made.com to get your coiffed posh cushion straight from the designer. Ok so this isn’t a plug for made.com* but instead, a note on the advert. See this man is rambling “I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to pay it anymore” which is a wonderful tribute to this 1976 satirical film by Sidney Lumet. by Cookie N Screen Winning the Palme D’or award is a coveted triumph, indeed. Especially if you are a fan of global and independent cinema. After all, the Oscars have come something of a sell-out; we all know who is going to win and why. Every year films are screened under that tense genre “Oscar Bait” and pull at people’s heart-strings in such an overblown way it affects the story. With Cannes, there is something more poignant and whilst most of the Western World will not see these films, the breadth of talent on show is simply divine (just ask our Gloria Daniels-Moss, whose Crossroads film, where she was AD, is going to be screened this year.) Last year, the grand winner was Winter Sleep. Now the Turkish film is available on DVD & Blu-ray, and trust me, you’ll not want to miss this highly acclaimed film. by Robbie Jones One of the great things about films is how it can take certain things and open them up to other audiences. Not every film fan is a big sports fan (In fact, stereotypes would have you believe that most film fans don’t know what sport is), but that doesn’t matter; you don’t need to enjoy sports to enjoy films about sports. You can love Moneyball having never seen a baseball game in your life, or enjoy the Rocky franchise having never thrown a punch. Films about sports appeal to everyone, not just the fans, and that’s great, but isn’t it just more fun when films make up sports? It’s always nice to see imagination in cinema, and wacky, ridiculous sports tournaments are a part of that. From Quidditch to Pod Racing, The Hunger Games to BASEketball (Come on, you wish that was real and don’t you dare deny it), these sports often become the subject of interesting films. 1975’s Rollerball, which sees its first Blu-Ray release from Arrow Video, one of the most renowned Blu-Ray producers in the country, is an interesting film. But is it a good one? by Leah Stone There were a few concerns over the most recent instalment of The Hunger Games film franchise, the biggest being the fact that they split the last book into two films. How were the filmmakers going to do it whilst still having enough material and plot to work with? Plus, the previous two films had set such a high standard, would the third film live up to them? The answer is yes by Cookie N Screen It’s 2001. George W Bush was President of the United States. Tony Blair ruled the British Empire. Destiny’s Child and Dido ruled the charts. In the cinema, we followed The Fellowship of the Ring and Harry’s Potter journey through Hogwarts. And Ben Stiller was a famed male model. Zoolander hit our screens and taught us that there is much more to life than being really really ridiculously good looking. Now the titular supermodel is back with his pal Hansel, played by Owen Wilon and is set to shimmy down that catwalk again in 2016. In fact, they announced it in the best way… by Robbie Jones You know that feeling when you start to like an actor you’ve been hating on for years? I fucking do. (Ed: Yes, you fucking do.) Yes, over a year I spent trashing Benedict Cumberbatch every chance I got, but it just had to stop once I saw his stunning turn in The Imitation Game. The Sherlock star plays Alan Turing, a mathematician hired to crack the Enigma code, which the Germans used in radio transmissions during World War 2, and end the war. Turing is difficult to work with, and quite infuriating at times, but he’s their best shot at success. |
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