The Dark Knight Rises Becca dons her cape to cover the latest release in what has become the summer of the superhero… Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy comes to an end (of sorts!) in this epic conclusion. Eight years have passed since the pivotal escapades of The Dark Knight. Bruce Wayne (Christian Bale) has gone […]
Pulling no punches, Becca Jackaman covers the most recent Seuss outing… Yet another one of Dr Seuss’ famous stories gets a dash of movie magic, in this vibrantly coloured tale about the town of Thneedville where everything is made of plastic, and people have to by fresh air from a bottle. Straightaway the moral message […]
VXM event held at DanceEast as part of the first ever Fringe Festival in Ipswich.
Amy Bell looks at the birth of a medium…
Film and cinema was one of the greatest inventions of all time because it provided people with a brand new way of finding enjoyment. One of the first motion pictures to ever be released was The Horse In Motion, which was released in 1878. Eadweard Muybridge, who was a photographer, made this film. He took several photographs of the different movements of horses. He put all the photographs together to make it look as if the horse was actually moving. He set up a row of twelve cameras, each making an exposure in one-thousandth of a second. He later made a lantern to project moving images of horses.
Amy Bell reviews – the recent Women in Black and the John Wayne classic The Desert Trail. The beginning of the film is innocent, focusing on three little girls, playing in their bedroom. The Woman in Black appears in the room. The little girls take one look at her and stop their activities, slowly walk […]
It is said, that the woman who is appointed maid of honour at her best friend’s wedding must organise everything, to make the bride really feel special before her special day. Sadly, Annie (Kristen Wiig) has enough life troubles, without the pressure of such a title on her shoulders. She’s recently single, and her cake […]
Amy Pond reports having surviving three new horror films Chernobyl Diaries New horror film Chernobyl Diaries see six tourists hire an extreme tour guide who takes them to the abandoned city Pripyat, the former home to the workers of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor but during their exploration, they soon discover they are not alone. Drawing from […]
Becca Jackaman gives non-frosty coverage to Ice Age 4: Continental Drift… It’s been three years since the second Ice Age sequel, Dawn of the Dinosaurs, and the writers have put those years to good use. Continental Drift is a breath of fresh air to the franchise, because this time they’ve managed to reach out […]
Rebecca Jackaman review The last time this superhero thwipped his way onto our screens, it didn’t go so well. Spiderman 3 had too many villains (and then there was that haircut) and was met with a lot of critical disappointment, and furthermore, plans for a fourth sequel were scrapped. Which was a shame really, […]
