All This Mayhem
August 28th, 2014 | by Conor Smyth
Nineties America saw a wider embrace of skateboarding by mainstream culture and exciting innovations in vertical ramp (‘vert’) skating technique, …
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Lucy
August 27th, 2014 | by Conor Smyth
After honey-voiced hardware in Her, a blank-faced alien stalker in Under Her Skin and a lycra-skinned super spy in Captain America: Winter Soldier, Scarlett …
The Congress
August 25th, 2014 | by Conor Smyth
As cut-throat a business as Hollywood may be, it’s inevitably a comedown from the horrible intensities of life in a …
The Expendables 3
August 20th, 2014 | by Conor Smyth
The Expendables 3, the latest in Hollywood’s action-star pension plan, confirms the series’ status as the modern action genre’s biggest …
Hector and the Search for Happiness
August 14th, 2014 | by Conor Smyth
Soon into Hector and the Search for Happiness, the baffling new leading man vehicle for Simon Pegg from director Peter …
Guardians of the Galaxy
August 4th, 2014 | by Brian Coney
Guardians of the Galaxy, Marvel’s big summer movie, is a hot-blooded, swaggering space-opera blockbuster and a finely-judged exercise in controlled …
The Purge: Anarchy
July 30th, 2014 | by Conor Smyth
2011’s The Purge, written and directed by relatively green film-maker James DeMonaco, was a concept in search of a movie. …
Boyhood
July 29th, 2014 | by Conor Smyth
Richard Linklater’s Boyhood is both an aesthetic and logistical triumph. That it exists at all is a victory of sorts, …
I am Divine
July 28th, 2014 | by Richard Davis
Prolific filmmaker Jeffrey Schwarz turns his attention to the life and career of drag artist Divine, the cinematic muse of …
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
July 16th, 2014 | by Conor Smyth
The first of this Planet of the Apes trilogy, 2011’s Rise of the Planet of the Apes, benefited enormously from …
