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Top 5 Film Drinking Games

We students love an occasional alcoholic beverage, and most of us like the occasional film. So why not put the two together? – If that’s not science, then I don’t know what is. Be warned, these are not easy; if playing number one, it’s probably best to get yourself on [Full Article]

The Crazies

It seems that the world of supernatural beasties is very much ‘in’ at the moment; between the cinema, television and gaming, there are more vampires, werewolves and zombies than you can shake a big (preferably stake shaped or spiked) stick at. So, if you are feeling a slight sense of vampire overexposure but still crave a bit of undead action in your life, fear not; The Crazies is here for you. [Full Article]

Losing the Plot

Whatever happened to good old fashioned, edge-of-your-seat, what-happens-next-ism? Everyone likes a good story, but that doesn’t seem to be the priority any more. Apparently strong narratives play fiftieth fiddle to a whole host of other things, and those things are overwhelmingly emotional journeys and stuff blowing up. [Full Article]

A Single Man

There are few films that have the ability to fully engage the audience within the opening ten seconds. [Full Article]

Case 39 Screening

Student Direct has teamed up with first4movies.com to offer readers a chance to see new pyschological horror Case 39 before its March 5th release date and for free. [Full Article]

Top 5 Assassin Films

Who in their right mind doesn’t want to be an assassin? Uber-cool outfits, adrenaline-fuelled gunfire and car chases a-plenty, these five films ignited a longing for black spandex and raised a collective sigh from men all around the world. [Full Article]

Everybody's Fine

Whoever designed the poster for Everybody’s Fine is a moron. Really, they may as well have just stuck a massive airbrushed photo of Robert De Niro under a black and white banner that says ‘this film is bad’ [Full Article]

A Fine Job

Kids from Bristol don’t make movies. They don’t get Golden Globe nominations, and they certainly don’t tell Robert De Niro, Drew Barrymore and Sam Rockwell what to do. [Full Article]

A Touch of Class - Downfall

Downfall tells the story of Adolf Hitler during the final days in his bunker as the reign of Nazi Germany comes to a dramatic end. [Full Article]

Diary of a Disgraced Soldier

I like to think of myself as a liberal minded sort of person, so when I went to see a film focused on the video of British soldiers beating a group of Iraqi protesters, I naturally grimaced and hardened my mind for two hours of self-justification by a warped military psycho. [Full Article]

Afterschool

Harbouring a strong but standard British hatred for anybody above me in the class system, my usual knee-jerk-acid-spitting reaction came in full force when I read that this film is centred on the supposed troubles of a young teen at a private school. No, it’s not Harry Potter, It’s Afterschool, and even I was surprised by its ability to make the viewer sympathise and engage with the main character. [Full Article]

The Skeleton Crew

At the centre of the table, flanked by the bright young things of the film, Peter Jackson and Susan Sarandon seem like the grown-ups in this game: almost oblivious to the seated journalists, while the kids on either side – Saoirse Ronan (Suzie Salmon), Rose McIver (Lindsey Salmon) and Reese Richie (Ray Singh) – eye the room with interest. It has been a long project for all of them, Jackson tells us. “I don’t think we thought it would be as difficult as it was when we started,” he says. “I think it’s the hardest thing we’ve done.” [Full Article]

Battle for Terra

Modern marketing techniques are highly sophisticated. No-one wastes their time with mass audiences any more, they find your specific interest and they nail you. As if it wasn’t intrusive enough. However, I can’t for the life of me work out who Battle for Terra is aimed at. [Full Article]

Tony Manero DVD Review

Set in Chile in the late ’70s, at the height of Augusto Pinochet’s totalitarian regime, the film follows Raul, whose only dream is to dance like John Travolta’s character from Saturday Night Fever, Tony Manero. [Full Article]

A Touch of Class - A Bittersweet Life

A Bittersweet Life knows what it is, and does what any action film should do – entertain, and in massive great bucket loads. [Full Article]

Top 5: The Very Best of Disney

Why is it that, once at uni, many of us find we spent precisely half of all free time re-watching the Disney movies that defined our childhoods? Well, I’m not Sigmund Freud, but I think the easy explanation is this: THEY ARE AWESOME. [Full Article]

The Lovely Bones

The outcome of Peter Jackon's change in tone, in deciding to remake Alice Sebold’s careful, clever bestseller, The Lovely Bones, was always going to be interesting. [Full Article]

Top 5 Films of 2009

It suddenly dawned on me during the holidays, somewhere between watching every Star Wars film in a day and stuffing my face with After Eights that 2009 has been an absolutely fantastic year for film [Full Article]

A Touch of Class - Encounters at the End of the World

Antarctica is one of the few blind spots in our passing global knowledge. It is this unique possibility that Werner Herzog’s voyage of polar discovery explores [Full Article]

REVIEW- Precious

If you’re feeling down at the start of term, this could be the perfect film to put things into perspective [Full Article]

REVIEW- Youth in Revolt

Youth in Revolt opens with nerdy teenager Nick Twisp wanking off in his bedroom- in spectacularly clichéd terms he proclaims his fixation with sex and the desperate need for a girlfriend who could lend a helping hand [Full Article]

All I want for Christmas is a good Christmas movie

Christmas is rubbish. The brain-disengaging action extravaganzas of the summer are long gone, the jumpy Halloween fright fests have been phased out of cinemas, and it’s also too early in the year to watch the laughably Oscar baiting ethnic-minority-disabled-terminally-ill leper born in the Bronx with 15 bullets pumped in him as a foetus overcome adversity/prejudice/an alcoholic father to become president of the universe. [Full Article]

Politics on Film: DVD Review Special

Daniel Zuidijk and Tom New take a look at two films that aim to take the murky world of politics and place it slap bang on the silver screen. [Full Article]

A Touch of Class - Tremors

Directors need to get their priorities right. Priority number one is entertainment. No, Robert De Niro, I don’t care that you spent 10 years thinking about and crafting The Good Shepherd, it was really long and boring. Tremors, on the other hand, is pure, unpretentious entertainment. [Full Article]