Oct 052012
 
Dredd

Fresh from Mega-City One, Becca ponders whether Dredd is drokk… Another comic book gets a film adaptation (2000AD this time. Heard of it? Nah, me neither) – only this isn’t the first time the infamous Judge Dredd has been on the silver screen. With Sylvester Stallone as the title character in 1995, it wasn’t a […]

Oct 052012
 
The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Becca takes a peak at an almost forgotten Disney animation, from the distant 1990s… So we all know the 90s were a pretty big year for Disney: there was Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, Mulan, and – how could we forget? – The Lion King and they were all incredibly successful. But…then there was The […]

Sep 262012
 
The Sweeney (2012)

The Sweeney   How do you make a film about police in the UK cool? British police don’t carry guns and you can never get far enough away from the stereotype of the bobby on the beat. This film makes a kind of compromise and the police in The Sweeney run around carrying baseball bats. […]

Sep 192012
 
Total Recall (2012)

Remakes are hard to pull off – especially if the film that is being remade is a cult classic like Total Recall.  The original version of this film was a dystopian sci fi set on Mars and was based on a story by Philip K Dick writer of mind-bending stories. It starred Arnold Schwarzenegger .and […]

Sep 072012
 
Fringe Festival 2012

Switch Fringe was born after a chance meeting of Amy Wragg & Cad Taylor. The pair identified Ipswich’s desire & need for a platform to showcase all the exciting creative activity going on across Ipswich.