James Hay - Cinema Editor, Author at FilmJuice

Inherent Vice

Drenched in a deep marauding plot is Joaquin Phoenix’s Doc, his stoned lackadaisical malaise somehow being the only thing to cut through the almost impossibly intertwined character lines and it’s his bizarre

January 30, 2015

Films

Kingsman: The Secret Service

Kingsman: The Secret Service is a big loud action romp, which is just what you’d expect from Matthew Vaughn, the man behind Kick Ass. This time, however, Vaughan has stepped it up

January 28, 2015

Films

Wild

To carry an entire movie on your shoulders is a heavy burden for any actor but one that Reese Witherspoon ably picks up with the same determination as the ‘monster’ backpack she

January 21, 2015

Films

The Theory of Everything

Stephen Hawking is one of those indelible figures of the 20th Century (and indeed the 21st), a person so renowned that even if you don’t know what he stands for or what

January 2, 2015

Films

The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies

The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies sees Bilbo and his cohorts return to finish off the epic saga of Middle Earth; taking on a giant charismatic dragon, an all seeing and

December 15, 2014

Films

Rurouni Kenshin: Kyoto Inferno

Picking up where the first film left off, Rurouni Kenshin: Kyoto Inferno finds our hero Kenshin (aka Battosai the Killer) happily domesticated with his friends Sanosuke, Kaoru and rescued opium siren Megumi.

November 28, 2014

Films

Nightcrawler

Jake Gyllenhaal is Lou Bloom, a down-on-his-luck nobody who’s looking for his calling and finding nothing. A chance encounter one night sucks him into the underworld of guerrilla journalism, which fuels his

October 29, 2014

Films

The Babadook

Whilst on the surface just another foray into the ‘monster in the attic’ genre, The Babadook serves a slightly more thoughtful entry into the world of scary cinema. Positioning itself as a

October 20, 2014

Films

Love Me Till Monday

Cute, funny and appropriately targeted, Love Me Till Monday never leaves the middle class realm in which it’s set, with its distinctly ‘first world problems’, but then that’s what and whom it’s about, so

September 28, 2014

DVD/Blu-ray

The Equalizer

If you’d never seen a movie before, you’d be forgiven for thinking The Equalizer is a stylish action thriller with a bit of weight at its core. But you have seen movies before and,

September 26, 2014

Films