Trent Film Society: Nosferatu
TFS is proud to present the second screening in our line-up of films for our horror-themed month of October! Following the smashing success of It Follows (see what I did …
Film and Cinema
The Intern: Great, now senior citizens are taking all the internships
The Intern reminds me most of Lost in Translation. It’s not a perfect comparison. The Intern isn’t going to win any Oscars. It has a completely different tone and there’s …
Trent Film Society Presents: The Election
We’ve all known or met someone like Tracy Flick (Reese Witherspoon), the perfectionist do-gooder who will stop at nothing to succeed – even if it strays from what is moral …
Listen to what the Doctor says
It seems hard to summarize such a prolific group as N.W.A, and their career into a three-hour movie, and one hour-long album. It seems even harder to sum up said …
Movie Review: It Follows (2015)
Reviews and trailers can ruin some films, and It Follows is a concept that thrives on the interpretations its audience will make. It’s like Stephen King said: “Description begins in …
The Trent Film Society presents: American Graffiti
Fundamentally, American Graffiti is an underwhelming yet pleasant film. It promises a lot, but delivers little. Why this film would be described as a classic, why David Kehr would say …
The year of spies and the return to spectacle
Recent blockbusters have been saturated by mediocrity. They’ve lost their magic, have failed to suspend our disbelief, and have championed scale rather than vision. For some time it seemed these …
Summer films 2015: the great, the good, and the gaudy
Version:1.0 StartHTML:0000000167 EndHTML:0000007596 StartFragment:0000000454 EndFragment:0000007580 Since the debut of Star Wars in 1977, summer has been the season for blockbusters. 2015 is no different, offering up a slew of flashy …
Get Hard – That Poor Hedge Fund Manager
What do you do when you have two of the most bankable comedic talents in Hollywood? That’s the question I’m sure a lot of people were asking themselves as they …
Movie Review: Insurgent – Factions be crazy!
The first instalment of a big film franchise is a lot like a TV pilot. The first episode of a series isn’t always a great episode, or even a great …