A recent arrival in Glasgow and a student of Literature and Film, Luke wants to exercise his literary muscles on something other than dry academic essays. A devoted patron of the silver screen and its smaller sibling, he’s into anything involving moving pictures, but he’d rather they were cut with some verve. An adherent of no particular genre, he puts SciFi and existential ruminations such as Moon and Synecdoche: New York at the top of his list of favourite films, as well as The Life Aquatic and Memories Of Murder - he's ever a champion of the plucky underdog. He is also a fully paid up Fannibal and X-Phile, because TV never really got any better than Mulder and Scully. Despite being a big fan of comics, he’s not convinced about this Marvel Cinematic Universe business, so for more caustic thoughts on that, and also happier thoughts about boardgames, you can find him at @fulloffeathers and so-easily-forgotten.blogspot.co.uk
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Sadly, like many biopics, the film blends so many elements of the life of its subject that it starts to lose focus, and falls back on a relationship conflict to lend some backbone.
The story of psychiatrist RD Laing and his unique community at Kingsley Hall, East London, during the Sixties.
The West Country slang in use is at times impenetrable, but it’s clear that writer Alex Simmonds has spent a long time learning its intricacies, and the actors are doing their best to capture the spirit and tone of this community.
A man looks to find a way to escape the criminal ways of his outlaw family.
It’s absolutely a little squalid, but focusing on these elements ignores the often sublime visuals that permeate the film.
Broadcasting through a makeshift network of discarded televisions, this story is tangled up in the aftermath of Los Angeles's worst earthquake nightmare.
The insane amount of violence is in danger of becoming totally monotonous, but is rescued by Iko Uwais' dynamic and hitherto unrevealed comic sense of motion and timing.
Washed ashore on a small Indonesian island, a man wakes up in hospital with no memory
of who he is or how he got there - but a gang boss is on his trail.
The posturing and overly theatrical nature of the delivery is going to make or break the experience for many.
A scientist blames the head of a large company for an ecological disaster in South America. But when a volcano begins to show signs of erupting, they must unite to avoid a disaster.
