Category Film

Alex Zane hosts The Big Movie Quiz (Image Credit: @MoviePreviewNet)

Neelam Rehman reviews The Big Movie Quiz hosted by Alex Zane

It’s that time of year again. Fantastic trailers are stopping us from watching our desired YouTube videos, and our bank is screaming “You don’t have money!”  Great new movies are coming out soon, The Scorch Trials, Pan, Victor Frankenstein, Star Wars – The Force Awakens, to name a few...

National Lampoon fans rejoice – the Griswolds are back! This week sees the release of Vacation, a reboot of the original National Lampoon film starring Ed Helms as Rusty, the son of Chevy Chase’s iconic character.

In an attempt to spice things up with his wife and reconnect with his sons, Rusty Griswold (Ed Helms) takes his family on a cross-country excursion to America’s favourite fun park, “Walley World”. The film is the fifth installment of the National Lampoon’s Vacation film series and is ...

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Donna Kelly takes a look back at five of the most famous adaptions of Hamlet on film

With Benedict Cumberbatch currently treading the boards as the Danish prince at the Barbican, the word on everyone’s lips at the moment is Hamlet.

William Shakespeare’s tale of tragedy of murder and revenge in medieval Denmark is arguably the Bard’s most famous and most-discussed play and it’s not hard to see why.

For those who have never read (or indeed seen)...

Rachel Arundel reviews The Girl in the Woods, a short film by Tofiq Rzayev

Filmmaker Tofiq Rzayev, from Azerbaijan, is back this September with his latest short film, The Girl in the Woods; a Turkish-language adaptation of the original English screenplay, Find Me.

Launching straight in to the central narrative, Deniz Aslim’s character, Mert, receives a mysterious text message from his friend Ali, containing one simple instruction: ‘Find Me’...

Following its debut at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival in earlier this year, Bobcat Goldthwait’s latest documentary Call Me Lucky finally hits the big screen.

Call Me Lucky is a biographical documentary film that tells the incredible life story of Barry Crimmins, a politically outspoken comedian-turned-activist who helped to expose child pornography online.

The documentary opens with video footage from a stand-up comedy night in Boston in 1990...

20th Century Fox’s reboot of Fantastic Four fails to compete with other Marvel films

This week sees the release of 20th Century Fox’s reboot of the comic book franchise the Fantastic Four. As a Marvel fan, I was eager to see what director Josh Trank had in store for Marvel’s original and longest-running superhero team, particularly as it’s been rather quiet on the media front (clearly 20th Century Fox had an embargo). The result, unfortunately, is rather mixed.

For those who aren’t fami...

Based on the graphic novel by Phoebe Gloeckner, The Diary of a Teenage Girl is a coming-of-age comedy/drama written and directed by Marielle Heller. Set in 1970s San Francisco, it follows the story of Minnie Goetze (Bel Powley), a 15-year old girl who enters into an affair with her mother’s 34 year-old boyfriend, Monroe (Alexander Skarsgård).

Challenging, edgy and controversial, The Diary of a Teenage Girl is a film about sexual awakening and the crossroads between female adolescence and wo...

Tense, thrilling and visually stunning, Tom Cruise is back on top form in Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation

Tom Cruise and the team are back with the fifth installment in the Mission: Impossible series, Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation. Donna Kelly reviews for Frankly My Dear…

Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation sees Tom Cruise reprises his role as IMF Agent Ethan Hunt, as Hunt and his team take on their most impossible mission yet, eradicating ‘The Syndicate’ – an international rogue o...

With Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation hitting UK cinema screens tomorrow, Donna Kelly takes a look back at the Mission: Impossible series that has spawned five sequels grossing more than $2 billion worldwide for ScreenRelish.

Earlier this week, we took a look back at the previous three M:I films. Today, we target Brad Bird’s film Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol, easily the best action film of the 2011.

In the fourth installment of the Mission: Impossible series, the IMF is shut down ...

In anticipation for the release of Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation tomorrow, Donna Kelly takes a look back at the Mission: Impossible series that has spawned five instalments grossing more than $2 billion worldwide for ScreenRelish.

Earlier this week, we took a look back at Mission: Impossible and Mission: Impossible II, both of which were a box office success. Today, we flashback to 2006 to the release of Mission: Impossible III, J.J. Abrams’ first film as a director.

In Mission: Impos...