Worrall’s TV Movie Review – Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God (2012)
Stories of corruption and scandal from within the Catholic Church are almost as old as the religion itself. Where once the actions of the papacy were embroiled in king-making and regal power plays, now More...
Worrall’s Reel Review – Star Trek Into Darkness (2013)
In 2009, J. J. Abrams did something quite extraordinary. With Star Trek, he delivered one of the best ever cinematic reboots that brought the cult science fiction series into a mainstream audience in a vibrant, More...
Worrall’s Reel Review – The Hangover Part III (2013)
This, depressingly, was a film that was always going to be made. The huge financial success of the of the first two Hangover films (particularly the second one, which became the highest grossing R-rated comedy More...
Worrall’s Reel Review – The Great Gatsby (2013)
To be completely honest, this was never going to be a film that would appease everyone. This long-awaited new adaptation of what many call the ‘Great American Novel’ was almost destined to disappoint More...
Worrall’s Reel Review – The Place Beyond the Pines (2013)
It is possible to have too much of a good thing. Admittedly this is something of a cliche, but it is one that can be quite accurately applied to The Place Beyond the Pines. Frequently, films that find short-term More...
Worrall’s Reel Review – The Host (2013)
One would imagine that a film based on a book written by the same author as the Twilight saga, regardless of its quality, would have been a box-office hit. Strangely however, The Host has somewhat whimpered out More...
Worrall’s Reel Review – Iron Man 3 (2013)
Of all of the superhero movies to have come out during the twenty-first century, arguably it is this one that has had the greatest pressure upon its shoulders. The reason for this is quite simple; The Avengers. More...
Worrall’s Reel Review – Zero Dark Thirty (2012)
When the news spread on 2 May 2011 that Osama Bin Laden had been killed, much of the public response was unnerving. The joy and examples of such aggressive celebration marred the fact that a man responsible for More...
Worrall’s Reel Review – Lincoln (2012)
Steven Spielberg is in the extraordinary position of being a director whose name alone is often to have people flocking to see his films. He is also a man who has shown incredible diversity throughout his extensive More...
Worrall’s Reel Review – Django Unchained (2012)
Quentin Tarantino is a man who seems to frustrate just as much as he entertains. On the one hand, he is the man who created Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction; films that were violent and exciting but had substance, More...