Review: The Philosophers
Digital: The Philosophers (AKA: After the Dark) (2013)On the eve of their graduation, 20 philosophy students are put through a final thought experiment by their teacher Mr Zimit (James D’Arcy) which takes them mentally through multiple alternate universes where a variety of devastating events mean that only 10 of the 20 can take shelter in […]
Review: Who Dares Wins (Uncut)
DVD & Blu-ray: Who Dares Wins (1982)When SAS Captain Peter Skellen (Lewis Collins) assaults 2 soldiers while out on training manoeuvres, he is forced to resign his position and return to “civvy street”.However, this is all just part of a masterplan so that he can infiltrate an anti-nuclear war group led by an ambitious and […]
Review: The Blitz 80th Anniversary
DVD & Digital: The Blitz 80th Anniversary (2021)This new documentary from Reel 2 Reel Films commemorates 80 years since “The Blitz”: Between 1940 and 1941, the German Luftwaffe regularly bombed different areas of Britain, including the relentless bombing of London, over 56 nights. Sadly the devastating campaign saw more than 40,000 civilians killed in what was […]
Review: LOVE –A Puzzle Box Filled with Stories
‘LOVE –A Puzzle Box Filled with Stories’: on Nintendo Switch.a review Megan Robinson.LOVE is a puzzle game about finding the things we’ve lost in ourselves and the people who help us find them. Through interactions in both the past and the present, we get to know the people that live in our apartment building and […]
Review: Small Pleasures
‘Small Pleasures’ by Clare Chambers. a review by Megan Robinson. Small Pleasures is set in 1957 in the southeast suburbs of London. We follow Jean Swinney a nearly forty-year-old journalist who is contacted by a young Swiss woman, Gretchen Tilbury, claiming that her daughter is the result of a virgin birth. The more that Jean investigates […]
Review: Jungle Fever
Blu-ray: Jungle Fever (1991)Jungle Fever directed and written by Spike Lee and released in 1991 is a tale of interracial romance and racism. Following several characters interconnecting threads, and set in early 90s New York, Flipper Purify (Wesley Snipes), is black, successful, happily married and lives in the ‘nice’ part of Harlem with his wife Drew […]
Review: Maeve
Blu-ray: Maeve (1981)Pat Murphy’s first film was her most experimental. Set during the troubles in Ireland it tells the story of Catholic girl Maeve Sweeney (Mary Jackson), a young Belfast woman who lives in London and returns to the family home for a visit.The film zips back and too though time and Maeve’s hairstyle changes […]
Review: The Song of Achilles
‘The Song of Achilles’ by Madeline Miller a review by Megan Robinson The Song of Achilles is set in Greece in the age of heroes. We follow Patroclus and his tender friendship with demi-god Achilles, a bond that blossoms into something deeper as they grow into young men. But when Helen of Sparta is kidnapped, Achilles is […]
Review: Normal People
Normal People is a million-copy bestseller that has also been adapted into a BBC programme. It follows Connell and Marianne who grew up in the same small town in the west of Ireland, but their similarities end there. It is a story of mutual fascination, friendship and love. It takes us from their first conversation […]
Review: Someone to Watch Over Me
Blu-ray: Someone to Watch Over Me (1987) Rich Socialite and beautifully haired Claire Gregory (Mimi Rogers) goes to a posh party with her somewhat boring but very rich boyfriend Neil Steinhart (John Rubinstein) and on seeing her old boyfriend Winn Hockings (Mark Moses) agrees to meet him ‘downstairs’. As she totters towards the meeting place […]