Feature Essays
“The world just as it is” | Agora (2009)
A woman looks to the skies in search of order. A student is torn between an infatuation with his teacher and his political ambitions. A ...
REVIEW: Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood (1988)
Tina Shepard, a young girl exhibiting telekinetic powers, kills her abusive father on the shores of Crystal Lake. Years later Tina (Lar Park Lincoln) returns to her family home with her mother (Susan Blu) and her psychiatrist Dr Crews (Terry Kiser). When her psychic powers return, Tina senses a presence at the bottom of Crystal ...
REVIEW: The BFG (2016)
An orphaned girl named Sophie (Ruby Barnhill) is kidnapped by a mysterious giant (Mark Rylance) and transported to 'giant country', where he plans to keep her captive to prevent the human world from learning of his existence. When Sophie sees the giant getting bullied by his larger and more destructive neighbours, she tries to help ...
REVIEW: Jason Lives: Friday the 13th Part VI (1986)
Tommy Jarvis (Thom Mathews) returns to Crystal Lake to overcome his fears of Jason Voorhees (C.J. Graham) once and for all. He digs up Jason's grave in order to destroy the corpse completely, except that a freak lightning storm revives Jason from the dead. While Jason continues his murderous rampage, Tommy struggles to convince the ...
REVIEW: The Fountain (2006)
A medical researcher races to find a cure for cancer before his wife dies from a brain tumour. In the 1500s, a Spanish conquistador embarks on a perilous journey to find the Biblical tree of life, to please his queen. In the far future a man travels halfway across the galaxy in a glass sphere, ...
REVIEW: Friday the 13th Part V: A New Beginning (1985)
Four years after brutally hacking serial killer Jason Voorhees to death, Tommy Jarvis (John Shepard) continues to suffer severe psychological damage. He has constant nightmares about Jason, and even hallucinates him during the day. After moving to a halfway house for troubled teens, Tommy is alarmed when a new spate of murders begins anew: could ...
REVIEW: Giants and Toys (1958)
Three Japanese candy manufacturers wage a pitched battle for market supremacy. While junior executives cosy up in bars attempting to tease out what their rivals' promotional plans are, one enterprising director elects to bypass traditional endorsements by creating his own celebrity from scratch. Once he has made her, however, he may struggle to control her. ...
REVIEW: Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter (1984)
Incorrectly believed dead, Jason Voorhees (Ted White) escapes from the hospital morgue and journeys back to his home at Crystal Lake. Nearby he finds a house rented by college students for the weekend, a family of three, and a hitchhiker (Erich E. Anderson) who has arrived to track down and murder Jason in revenge for ...
REVIEW: Deep Blue Sea (1999)
In a converted submarine base on the open ocean, a team of scientists led by Dr Susan McAlister (Saffron Burrows) have genetically modified sharks to make them both larger and smarter. In return they can extract a fluid from the sharks' brains that may hold the cure to Alzheimer's. Concerned over safety at the facility, ...
REVIEW: Friday the 13th Part 3 (1982)
Chris Higgins (Dana Kimmell) returns to her family home for the weekend with her friends. The house is vacant, and sits on the shore of Crystal Lake - meaning that before long she and her friends are terrorised by the homicidal Jason Voorhees (Richard Brooker), the deformed serial killer who wanders the area. Friday the ...
REVIEW: Dick Tracy (1990)
Maverick police detective Dick Tracy (Warren Beatty) goes head-to-head with crime boss Alphonse "Big Boy" Caprice (Al Pacino). While Tracy attempts to persuade Caprice's girlfriend Breathless Mahoney (Madonna) to turn evidence against him, an anonymous third party makes a play for control of the city's criminal underworld. Pity poor Disney. In 1990 they released Warren ...
