The Great Gatsby (2013)

Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Carey Mulligan and Joel Edgerton

Directed By: Baz Luhrmann

Written By: Baz Luhrmann & Craig Pearce

Baz Luhrmann brings F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel The Great Gatsby back to the big screen, with an all star cast and his highly creative visual eye. Comparisons can be struck continually with the older films and the novel but here we plan to look at this film objectively, allow it to stand on its own two feet.…

Star Trek Into Darkness (2013)

Cast: Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto and Zoe Alsdana

Directed By: J.J Abrams

Written By: Roberto Orci, Alex Kurtzman & Damon Lindelof

Captain Kirk and the crew of the U.S.S Enterprise return in J.J. Abrams' revisioning of the Star Trek franchise, Star Trek Into Darkness. For months promotional material has whetted our appetite for this next lense flaring blockbuster and finally it has flown into the darkness of the theatre and done all it can to wow…

A few good films were released this weekend but we went to see the new Joseph Gordon Levitt is Bruce Willis film; Looper. The film had been raved about from critics in some of its early screenings and I have to say it was a film I was really looking forward to. The idea behind it is great; in a future where time travel has been invented, Gordon Levitt plays an assassin know as a 'looper' who kills targets sent…

So far this year, in my opinion, we've been blessed with some decent films but none that have been quite as good and different as what we have viewed in other years. Yeah sure we've had The Dark Knight Rises, Avengers Assemble, and Skyfall but these huge movies have all been franchise movies, not really very original. Last year we had brilliant sleeper films like Warrior and 50/50 (based on a true story but not a franchise or sequel etc)…