Zootropolis is Disney’s latest anthropomorphic animation. We follow Judy the rabbit (Ginnifer Goodwin) who is desperate to become a police officer. Having graduated top of her class from the police academy, Judy moves to the big city, Zootropolis, where she finds it hard to be taken seriously and is relegated to handing out parking tickets. […]
Continuing the popular young adult series, Allegiant is the third film in The Divergent Series. Picking up where Insurgent left off, there’s been a change in regime in this dystopian view of Chicago: the factions are gone, Four’s mother is now in charge and there’s a whole world to be discovered beyond the city walls. Shailene Woodley […]
How to be Single follows four single women in New York, as they try and find love and – spoiler alert – along the way end up finding themselves. Newly single Alice (Dakota Johnson) moves to New York where she meets party girl Robin (Rebel Wilson) who decides to teach her how to be […]
A Bigger Splash – a remake of the 1969 film La Piscine – is a psychodrama set on an island off the Sicilian coast, with the action centred on four characters playing poolside emotional chess. Marianne (Tilda Swinton) is a Bowie-esque rockstar recovering from a throat operation, on holiday with her filmmaker boyfriend Paul (Matthias […]
Hsiao-Hsien Hou’s The Assassin tells the story of Nie Yinniang (played by Shu Qui), a young woman who was kidnapped at 10 years old and trained to be an assassin. Unmatched in her skill for fighting, Yinniang cannot separate her job from her personal compassion. Having failed to carry out an assassination, she is punished […]
The 5th Wave is the latest Young Adult franchise based on a popular series of novels, and where The Hunger Games had dystopian states and Twilight had vampires, The 5th Wave tackles aliens. Earth has been invaded and the population is being killed off in a series of ‘waves’ such as earthquakes and disease. […]
Room is the story of Jack and his mother Joy, who the audience first sees inhabiting a small, dirty room. There is a bed, a cupboard, a bath, a small table, a television and that’s about it. Their hair is long and dank, they look pale and sickly and we don’t know how they […]
In 1975 feminist film theorist Laura Mulvey published a seminal essay entitled ‘Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema’. In it, she posited various theories about cinema and how it operates, as well as how both men and women are portrayed on screen. Mulvey’s work was hailed as revolutionary, and although her theories are not without […]