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Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
Gareth Negus watches the version of Pride and Prejudice where a person is sought after not for their wealth or status but for their brains. Let off some steam, Bennet! It is a truth universally...
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Cult Reader
Gareth Negus opens ‘Cult Cinema: An Arrow Video Companion’ and finds a mix of bullseyes and misses. Given half a chance, many film buffs of a certain age will reminisce fondly about the BBC2 film...
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You’ll Be The First To Go
Friday the thirteenth is lucky for some as Gareth Negus has more fun than he expected to with Cannes 2015 Directors’ Fortnight selection Green Room, in UK cinemas this week. Though it’s being billed as...
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Edinburgh Film Festival 2016
Matthew Turner and Gareth Negus pick out their highlights from this year’s Edinburgh International Film Festival. Hunt for the Wilderpeople Matthew Turner: I’ll be honest, I was expecting great things...
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Dr. Strangelove
Gareth Negus learns to stop worrying and love the bomb, with the new Criterion Collection blu-ray. “Gentlemen! You can’t fight in here, this is the war room!” Here’s a confession: I’d never seen Dr....
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Welcome to Mick’s World
Gareth Negus watches the TV series of Wolf Creek. He’s behind you. Wolf Creek started as a 2005 film from writer/director Greg McLean, about a serial killer in the Australian outback. An apparently...
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Show Me Your Chickens, Max
Gareth Negus watches Brad Pitt and Marion Cotillard share a special relationship in World War II drama, Allied. That’s an actual line from the film, by the way. Robert Zemeckis came to fame as a...
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Lion
Gareth Negus uses his search engine to find meaning in Lion Lion is one of those Awards-bait true stories that has pretty much everything Hollywood loves: cute kids, exotic locations, a tearjerking...
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The Iron Lady
By Gareth Negus With yet another election looming in the next few weeks, we’re revisiting Gareth Negus’s review of the Margaret Thatcher biopic from 2011. Whatever you may think of the present...
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My Life as a Courgette
Gareth Negus reviews the new French animated film. My Life as a Courgette arrived in the UK having already earned award nominations from the Oscars and Golden Globes, as well as the Cannes Festival;...
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