5 Half-Decent Dance Battle Films
The dance film is one strange genre that just refuses to die, as ever-present as the home invasion horror and the boy-meets-girl romantic comedy. One subset of that genre to emerge in the last decade or so is the streetdance film, which more often than not has some more traditional dance form such as ballet meet a street dance crew and climax with a battle between rival groups. It’s not an area known for it’s quality, but there are a few good films out there, and we’ve done some digging so that you don’t have to.
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‘Eden’ review
Films about sex trafficking have to tread a very fine line – depict the horrors of such crime while avoiding the trap of exploitation. Eden, the dramatisation of writer Chong Kim’s real-life experience directed by Megan Griffiths, manages to do so quite admirable, though its implied horror comes at the expense of graphic scenes or pure shock value, however unwatchable that might have proven for a casual viewer.
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What Remains 1×03 ‘Episode Three’ review
I don’t want to say it, but What Remains looks more and more like a lengthy collection of red herrings with every passing episode. Last week, it was only nice-guy-next door Kieran who seemed innocent, obviously making him the prime suspect, but now that theory has been squashed by the abundance of warning signs we received in episode three. With only one more to go, the smart investigators among us should probably start looking elsewhere.
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Wentworth Prison 1×02 ‘Fly Me Away’ review
The second episode of Channel 5’s new Australian import, Wentworth Prison, ‘Fly Me Away’, offers up a more emotional hour than the premiere, as we look into Doreen’s backstory. Bea’s story, in turn, takes more of a backseat, leaving time to focus on her fellow prisoners’ lives before and after their respective incarcerations.
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What’s the Problem With the ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ Casting?
Snuck in over the holiday weekend was one of the more anticipated casting announcements of the year, and its strategic placement did nothing to stem the inevitable controversy. We recently witnessed the power of displeased fans when Ben Affleck was chosen as the new Batman but, with Fifty Shades of Grey’s Christian Grey and Anastasia Steele, it was a whole different matter. Charlie Hunnam and Dakota Johnson have been chosen to portray the characters, beating out countless fan suggestions.
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Top Boy 2×03 ‘Episode Three’ review
It’s another short run for Channel 4’s London gang-land drama, Top Boy and, based on how much we’ve got going on in this third episode, that’s quite a shame. This show is so rich with story both tapped and untapped that it really could fill a traditional US 22-episode season, but the fact that it’s kept to four weeks at least keeps the filler to a minimum. This week’s episode finally made an attempt to tie the three seemingly disparate stories together, with Gem’s misfortune bleeding into his friend’s life and Dushane getting into the property business.
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What Remains 1×02 ‘Episode Two’ review
The BBC’s newest murder mystery drama, What Remains, continues to be a welcome presence on our Sunday night schedules, with episode two fleshing out the unsightly back stories of both the neighbours and Melissa Young herself. It was much more of a whodunit than in last week’s opener, as we’re encouraged to tally up clues and think up potential scenarios about how each of the residents of 8 Coulthard Street might have killed the shy and unsuspecting girl living upstairs.
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5 Great Summer Movies You Might Have Missed
It’s not hard a hard thing to do – with more summer blockbusters vying for our attention this year than ever before, countless other worthy films have slipped through the cracks. This is a shame, with lots of indie gems and lesser-promoted movies more ignored than they might have been otherwise – some of which deserved our attention more than the films we all watched (and wished we hadn’t) in our droves.
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Pretty Little Liars 4×12 ‘Now You See Me, Now You Don’t’ review
You’ve got to give the Pretty Little Liars writers some credit – that took guts. Aside from making one of the Liars ‘Big A’ (or ‘Uber A’ as I refuse to call them), having Ezra Fitz revealed as a wrongun in this summer finale’s final moments was the most ballsy move they could have pulled at this point. Aside from the shippers and endless heartache this means for them, this changes absolutely everything we thought we knew about ‘A’, and Rosewood and Alison’s dealing with ‘Board Shorts’ in the summer before her supposed death.
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Wentworth Prison 1×01 ‘No Place Like Home’ review
There’s a distinct whiff of Orange is the New Black in the way Channel 5 have teased their newest import, Wentworth Prison, and you can’t really blame them for trying to cash in on the success of Netflix’s own woman’s prison drama. But the roots of Wentworth go way back to 80’s soap opera, Prisoner: Cell Block H – a show that UK audiences really took to back in the day.
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Caroline Preece 