Star Trek Into Darkness
By Ryan Copping, published on 13 May 2013 12:00 am
There is something about myself that I have been hiding for years, but I’m finally going to admit. I first realised it when I was small child, that I was …
Of the week
By Ryan Copping, published on 13 May 2013 12:00 am
Good Vibrations
By Ryan Copping, published on 15 April 2013 12:00 am
Good Vibrations is in part about something that was an important part of my youth, but now just makes me sound old – the record store. Every city of a …
Oz: The Great and Powerful
By Ryan Copping, published on 13 March 2013 12:00 am
I may not be the person to ask about Oz: The Great and Powerful. I read L. Frank Baum’s Oz books with the love and enthusiasm only a child can …
Lincoln
By Ryan Copping, published on 1 February 2013 12:00 am
As I wrote in my review of a vastly inferior film about the same subject last year, a strong case can be made that Abraham Lincoln was the greatest American. …
Film of the Week: Life of Pi
By Ryan Copping, published on 28 December 2012 08:15 pm
Ang Lee’s Life of Pi is the kind of movie that proves itself a nightmare for critics to review. Fortunately, I can affirmatively report to you that it is not …
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
By Ryan Copping, published on 17 December 2012 02:25 am
Why are you reading this? Shouldn’t you be standing in line to see The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey? Shouldn’t the fact that this is an adaptation of a J.R.R Tolkien …
Film of the Week: Gambit
By Ryan Copping, published on 4 December 2012 03:20 pm
For this week’s review I had planned to scope Amour, the new Michael Haneke film. For those unfamiliar, Haneke is considered by many to be one of the greatest directors …
Anti-Empirical Sonnet
By ruthirwin, published on 31 October 2012 07:00 am
Entire answers are unknowable and graphs won’t help you with a voiding brain and screen. Mathematicians, I have seen, rarely scream until the time for words has left, and there’s …
Film of the Week: Skyfall
By Ryan Copping, published on 29 October 2012 09:00 am
Skyfall is an epic film about Britain’s place in the world after the loss of the empire, and the struggle of one deeply wounded man to overcome his tragic background …
Film of the Week: Berberian Sound Studio
By Ryan Copping, published on 22 October 2012 07:00 am
Berberian Sound Studio (2012) is a horror movie in the correct and best sense of the word: it takes us into a world in which terrible things happen, one where characters …
