Failed Critics Triple Bill: Winter Preview

After a less than stellar summer of blockbusters this year, the critics turn their attention to the films we hope to be entertained over the winter, including a number of Continue reading →

Do you remember the first time?

The first time I went to the cinema I was in top infants. It was Natasha’s seventh birthday, and her mum took a bunch of us to see Disney’s Snow White Continue reading →

Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels (1998)

Guest contributor John Fitzsimons tells us why IMDB Top 250 film Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrells turned him into a RIGHT FAHKIN’ MUG! Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels Continue reading →

Failed Critics Review: ParaNorman

This week on Failed Critics we talk about the story of a youngster with no friends and an unhealthy obsession with ropey zombie films. And as well as moaning at Continue reading →

On Netflix, indecision, and about five minutes of Face/Off.

You know when you have severely limited time for sitting on your arse watching tv, to the point where you actually kind of forget how to do it? And then Continue reading →

Failed Critics Triple Bill: Bar Scenes

Failed Critic Cocktail 1 measure emotional old man 1 measure grumpy Northerner dash of vigilante a handful of anti-Star Wars vitriol 2 spoons of the obligatory Star Wars choice 1 terrible Begbie Continue reading →

Why we will not be reviewing Taken 2

“It seems to me that more and more we’ve come to expect less and less from each other, and I think that should change” – Aaron Sorkin If my life Continue reading →

Failed Critics Review: Lawless

Brothers. Gangsters. Heroes. That doesn’t apply to any of us, if we’re honest. Except maybe heroes. Steve chased someone from a kebab shop once. We are critics though, and this Continue reading →

A Decade In Film: The Noughties – 2000

The first in a new series of articles where  Failed Critics contributors look back on a particular decade in the world of cinema, choose their favoruite films from each year of that Continue reading →

Downfall (2004)

Guest contributor Liam Pennington reviews another IMDB Top 250 film, Downfall, and finds that “this film humanises Hitler, and that is its greatest strength.” How do you deal with your Continue reading →