Adam Gunton

Usually a film's aim is to get the audience behind a character. To really champion them. The audience can see the goal of the character and we really want to them to reach it. Whiplash moves that goalpost. It's geared to make you empathise with it's lead character but then it shifts gear and makes you despise him, keen to see him fail. Perhaps it's a reflection of seeing our friends succeed in life and how we can become bitter at the lack of our own success. Similar emotions

I though this film was phenomenal. So unconventional. I assumed it would be structured around the build-up to JFK's assassination and then Jackie Kennedy's following grief. I was wrong. The structure of this film is one of the best things about it. It seamlessly moves from scene to scene, from moment to moment. The blending of the four narratives (the interview, the conversation with the priest, the fallout from JFK's death/build up to his funeral and Jackie's White House doc

I loved how intimate this film felt. I think that has a lot to do with the bigger, criminal aspect of the film playing second to the more character focused aspects. But then everything ties together. Everything means something and nothing is wasted. Tom Hardy does something similar in his performance. He's holding back and then he comes at you hard. Naomi Rapace was great. She's one of those unique actors that I don't always recognise because she really is the roles she plays

Whereas I felt Finding Nemo was a remarkable animation both in terms of its visual aesthetic and its storytelling, Finding Dory doesn't add anything new to the Disney/Pixar Canon. The story hits the same beats as the original film, relying on a lot of references and throwbacks to keep everything overly familiar for fans but by doing this it cheapens itself and Finding Nemo. But there's enough here to be entertained. The cast is as wonderful as ever (Kaitlin Olson and Ty Burre

This was great. It treaded that fine line of educating the audience on some of the most important people we've never heard about, showing the struggles we can only imagine while keeping it entertaining, funny and never patronising. This could have been heavy-handed and to be fair, it would be completely justified. When you're dealing with issues like segregation, oppression, racism, sexism and civil rights it's hard not to push the point home because let's be honest, the less