Brokeback mountain (2005)

Directed by Ang Lee 134 minutes Floor 3 Pink zone 791.4372 BRO As it is LGBT+ History Month and Oscar season I felt it was high time that I finally watched Brokeback Mountain, which had been on my to watch list for far too long. Back in 2005, which is depressingly long ago now, this […]

The Aviator (2004)

Directed by Martin Scorsese 163 minutes Floor 3 Pink zone 791.4372 AVI Don’t adjust your TV sets the grass really is blue. Well, for the first 50 minutes anyway. The Aviator is a biographical film following the life of John Logan played by, a very young looking, Leonardo DiCaprio. Logan’s name may not be too […]

Polar Express (2004)

Directed by Robert Zemeckis 96 minutes Floor 3 Pink zone 791.4372 POL It’s fair to say that The Polar Express split critics. Roger Ebert praised the film, giving it a score of four stars out of four; other critics, however, panned the film, describing it as ‘creepy’ and ‘uncanny’, on Rotten Tomatoes the film only […]

This is Spinal Tap (1984)

Directed by Rob Reiner 80 minutes Floor 3 Pink zone 791.4372 THI It’s time to crank the speakers up to 11 for the comical mock ‘rockumentary’ of This is Spinal Tap. The comedy film sees British band Spinal Tap try to break into American with their album ‘Smell the Glove’ with cover art that is […]

Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (1967) and In the Heat of the Night (1967): A Sidney Poitier Special

Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner Directed by Stanley Kramer 108 minutes Floor 3 Pink zone 791.4372 GUE In the Heat of the Night Directed by Norman Jewison 109 minutes Floor 3 Pink zone 791.4372 IN Sidney Poitier was the first black actor to win the Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role; he […]

The Matrix (1999)

The Matrix (1999) Directed by the Wachowskis 136 minutes Floor 3 Pink Zone 791.4372 MAT We’re back! And what better way to celebrate than with a review of a modern classic! This year The Matrix celebrates its twentieth anniversary, making the film older that the majority of our undergraduate students -depressingly enough for the staff […]

Goldfinger (1964) and Spectre (2015)

Goldfinger Directed by Guy Hamilton, 110 minutes, Floor 3 Pink Zone 791.4372 GOL Spectre Directed by Sam Mendes, 148 minutes , Floor 3 Pink Zone 791.4372 SPE The cast have just been announced for Bond 25 – I can’t be the only one who doesn’t want to wait a whole year for the next […]

Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)

Directed by Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones 92 minutes Floor 3 Pink Zone 791.4372 MON Its exam time, but everyone deserves a break; what better way to unwind than with splitting your sides with one of the greatest comedies of all time! Monty Python and the Holy Grail is a film to relax you no-matter […]

Eraserhead (1977)

Directed by David Lynch 89 minutes Floor 3 Pink Zone 791.4372 ERA I will start my review for Eraserhead with a simple statement – this is not a film will not suit everyone’s taste. However, it is good to try new things – especially the weird and wonderful, which is a perfect way to describe […]

A Monster Calls (2016)

Directed by J. A. Bayona 108 mins Floor 1 Yellow Zone R3 (NES) You may have noticed that the DVD for our last review of Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit was not stored with our usual shelving in the Pink Zone. Walking around the library you will find odd DVDs on the […]