Alone in Berlin
When Hans Fallada sat down to write Every Man Dies Alone, he was creating one of the first anti-Nazi books to be published in post-war Germany. Having spent many years incarcerated in an insane asylu...
Tag Archives: drama
Borg McEnroe
An icy Nordic berg versus a brash, bratty New Yorker. The gentleman of tennis versus the superbrat. The people’s favourite versus a figure of villainy. That is exactly how Björn Borg and John McEnroe...
Lady Bird: First Trailer
Jackie and No Strings Attached actress, Greta Gerwig, makes her directorial debut with this quirky and complex exploration of adolescence and family. Starring Saoirse Ronan and Laurie Metcalfe, this ...
Twelve Angry Men: Criterion Collection Anniversary Edition
Twelve Angry Men is, quite literally, of a bygone era. It’s exactly the type of film that wouldn’t get made nowadays. Not least because Paul Feig would try and turn it in to Twelve Angry Women (With ...
Bridge of Spies – First Trailer
Tom Hanks rarely makes a bad film – I’m pretending The Da Vinci Code didn’t happen – and Bridge of Spies seems to continue this run of intense, thought-provoking performances....
The Martian – First Images Released
I still haven’t forgiven Ridley Scott for Prometheus, but the first images from The Martian, along with more detailed information about the cast list and plot, have actually really intrigued me...
Northwest
The appetite for Scandinavian thrillers both on television and at the cinema shows no sign of waning. Michael Noer’s coming-of-age tale of brotherhood, crime and violence takes full advantage of the ...
Mirrors
In our Second Chance cinema strand, Moviescramble casts its eyes over the 2008 horror film Mirrors. In terms of critical acclaim horror films are generally given a bit of a kicking. Most reviewers te...
Gravity
Anyone who watched the trailers for Gravity when they appeared much earlier this year would have been more than a little excited. The gut wrenching visuals revealed in the preview promised so much. I...