Super Gr8 Super 8 - A Late Film Review by Nathan Brooks Sorry, I can't hear you over the sound of a train exploding. A little while back, Disney bought Star Wars off of George Lucas. Shortly afterwards, they announced they were going to make not one, not two, not three, not four, not fi- oh no wait, it is five. Five new Star Wars films, the first of which, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, is being directed by J.J. Abrams. The real question, however, is whether Abrams will do a good job of it or not. Well, this is the film that makes me confident he will. Story On it's own the story isn't extremely amazing, it's just about a bunch of kids discovering a government conspiracy, although it is still interesting. It doesn't reveal too much, meaning you're kept in the dark throughout the majority of the film, so you're always wanting to find out what happens next. The thing is though, that's sort of a sub plot. The main part of the story is th...

It's True, Man The Truman Show - A Quick Film Review by Nathan Brooks More like the fake-man show amirite? Up top! I've never liked reality TV that much. It's always bored me and I'd much rather watch TV that has been specifically written to be entertaining. So a film that satirises reality TV should be a perfect fit for me. So here's the Truman Show. It's a film that satirises reality TV. See where I'm going with this? Me neither. What I Like Pretty much everything. The goal of this film was to satirise reality TV (have I told you that yet?) and it achieves it with flying colours. It makes many points about the issues with reality TV, from question of how real it actually is to the abundance of advertisements in television. It makes all these points very well and never falls into any 'satire traps', by making these points subtly, but never seeming like it's just imitating what it's satirising.  All of this is aided by ...

Avengers Assemble! Again! Avengers: Age of Ultron - Film Review by Nathan Brooks And they say English Weather's bad. Back in the summer of 2012, a little film came out called Avengers Assemble. It wasn't much. It's only the biggest superhero film of all time and it only made $1.518 billion. Everybody loved it, I loved it and clearly moviegoers did as well.  Due to its massive success, obviously a sequel was going to be made. In this case, that sequel is Avengers: Age of Ultron, but with all the hype it's received, is it actually any good? Story The story in this film is definitely not for first time Marvel viewers, you really need to see most, if not all, of the previous Marvel Cinematic Universe films. It is packed full of references to earlier films and understanding a lot of elements of the story will require you to have seen the others. But is the story any good? I thinks so. The main story centres around the fact that Tony Stark, or Iron Man, has ...