Hollywood’s favourite hack Michael Bay returns to tarnish the childhood memories of Transformers fans once again, with Transformers: Age of Extinction. Bay’s third sequel to 2007’s Transformers does very little to appease fans and make up for past mistakes, instead preferring to further bastardise and cheapen the beloved 80’s cartoon franchise, anger and disappoint expectant … >
John Carney’s Once became the sort of Cinderella story Hollywood would jump on in a heartbeat. Costing less than the average London flat, the Irish underdog went on to win acclaim from audiences and critics alike (and an Oscar for Best Song), before transmogrifying into one of the hottest tickets in the West End musical … >
Under the Skin arrives on digital platforms on 7 July and on Blu-ray™ and DVD on 14 July. > Read our review of Under the Skin. To celebrate the release, we’ve got sets of the movie on Blu-ray and the soundtrack album to give away to three of our Twitter followers! For a chance to … >
Starring Keira Knightley, Mark Ruffalo, Hailee Steinfeld, Adam Levine and James Corden, Begin Again arrives in UK cinemas on Friday 11 July. > Read our review of Begin Again. To celebrate the release, we’ve got a spectacular musical goody bag (containing a headphone splitter, sunglasses, t shirt, coaster and USB) and a copy of the … >
We decided to take a look at the best ways of bringing the art of cinematography back into the home. Amazon seems to be a company with big aspirations. They’ve released the Kindle to great acclaim, the Kindle Fire and Kindle Fire HDX were a hit with consumers, and they’re even talking of a new … >
Transformers: Age of Extinction (cert 12A) is in cinemas everywhere from 5 July. > Read our review of the movie. To celebrate the release, we’ve got away a set of 12 Hasbro Power Attacker figures to give away to one of our Twitter followers! For a chance to win, just follow @CultBoxTV on Twitter and tweet … >
Bong Joon-ho’s first English language film, based on a French graphic novel, is reminiscent of Jean Pierre-Jeunet and Terry Gilliam (indeed, John Hurt’s character is called Gilliam), and much like a train builds up momentum as it goes, peaking with about ten minutes to go before coming to a halt. As the clunky exposition captions … >
The first promotional image from the upcoming Fifty Shades Of Grey movie has been released, featuring Northern Irish actor Jamie Dornan. The star of BBC Two’s The Fall is playing handsome billionaire Christian Grey, alongside Dakota Johnson as Anastasia Steele. Adapted from the trilogy of books by E. L. James, Fifty Shades Of Grey is released … >
Gia Coppola’s debut film is ambient, almost indolent teen drama that features sparks of wit, but ultimately is too laidback for its own good, and fails to distinguish itself. Based on James Franco’s short stories, it’s also going to suffer from the stigma of Franco’s appearance in the film as ‘a handsome soccer coach’ (to … >
Pros and Cons This past winter’s release of the award-winning American Hustle was just what the grifter ordered. Movies can trigger all sorts of feelings and memories, but nothing does the job better, at least for me, than a good con artist film. Before I get into it, Flickchart has a pretty good list of … >