December 2013

Frozen REVIEW

Before we get started, I wanted to take moment to discuss Get A Horse!, the animated short featuring Mickey Mouse accompanying Frozen in theatres. An energetic jam of old-school hand-drawn and modern computer-generated animation, it’s more than a witty modernisation of classic cartoon tropes, it’s a bold statement to everyone mourning classic Disney cartooning in

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’12 Years a Slave’ MOVIE REVIEW: An Overwhelming, Beautiful Piece of Cinema

It’s safe to say that director Steve McQueen has earned himself a trifecta, his third film (following the harrowing Bobby Sands prison drama Hunger and his powerful depiction of sex-addiction in Shame) proving that he is one of the finest directors working today. 12 Years a Slave is a powerful film that serves as a

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Interview: Director Ruben Alves on The Gilded Cage

Interview by Zac Platt. Parisian comedy The Gilded Cage, the semi-autobiographical comedy from first-time writer/director Ruben Alves, has been a sleeper hit in Europe, becoming the number one grossing film of the year in Portugal (beating out Thor: The Dark World, Gravity and World War Z) and winning the People’s Choice Award For Best Film

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‘Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2’ MOVIE REVIEW

Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2 continues not long after the first film’s finale. Flint’s food-creating invention, the FLDSMDFR, has mostly destroyed his home town. Enter Chester V, the CEO of Live Corp and Flint’s personal hero, whose company has been self-appointed to clean up the island. All the residents are relocated and Flint

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