Reviews by Staff Writer

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy is a tense espionage thriller set in 1970′s London during the Cold War. It is the most recent adaptation of John le Carré’s spy novel centered on the character of George Smiley. A top ‘Circus’ spy … Continue reading →

Contagion is a very scary reality. It is based on the outbreak of a new super virus that infects Gwyneth Paltrow’s character Beth and eventually spreads across the world. As the World Health Organization and the CDC in Boston struggle … Continue reading →

I think it was fair to say we had high hopes for this one. With an impressive opening weekend at the UK box office and three series of cracking comedy and memorable quotes behind it, we believed it would finally … Continue reading →

As soon as I had read the smallest of details about this film it was set in my mind that it would be a classic. The mouth watering proposition of having two cinema legends of Indiana Jones and James Bond … Continue reading →

The Big Feastival is Jamie Oliver’s new three day event which mixes fantastic food with great music. We decided to get ourselves down to Clapham Common for the Saturday to see the Charlatans for the third time in the last … Continue reading →

A gripping and touching biography of the Brazilian Formula One legend – Aryton Senna – who tragically lost his life in the last fatality to occur in Formula One at Imola, San Marino in 1994. A powerful insight into both … Continue reading →

I should have know better. I should have known that renting a DVD with a quoted review from Johnny Vaughan spelled trouble. Sadly this is not the re-birth of the London gangster film, but a poor man’s Layer Cake meets … Continue reading →

This is George Clooney’s Ocean’s One. A Minimal, stripped down mood performance that deserves the comparisons made to Alain Delon’s hitman in Le Samouraï. This is not the suave and charming Clooney you would expect. Clooney’s Jack is a brooding, … Continue reading →

It’s Friday night, what’s on at the cinema? Not much, something called Hanna, thinks its got guns and the CIA, bit like Bourne. Done! Girlfriend is sold. However, this is not just teenage Bourne for girls. Hanna is a melting … Continue reading →

Limitless is a 2011 techno-thriller that puts a new pharmaceutical spin on the Faustian tale of power at a price. Eddie Morra is a struggling writer recently dumped by his girlfriend and suffering from bouts of writer’s block and impending … Continue reading →