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Where to Live in The Star Wars Universe?

June 10, 2017February 8, 2023 Marta Meazza

From Tatooine to the forest moon of Endor, choosing where to buy real estate is a challenging question that most Star Wars fans have contemplated at some point.

Top 5 Blockchain and Crypto movies to watch in December 2020

October 11, 2019February 8, 2023 Hope Talbot

Bitcoin and blockchain are definitely two of the biggest innovations of the last decade or so. Chances are that even

TV Preview: The Irregulars Puts An Interesting New Spin On A Familiar Story

April 8, 2021 Marta Meazza

Netflix’s new crime drama drops at the start of April and presents a new angle on Sherlock Holmes’s story that might make long-time fans feel a little uncomfortable

Best Films of 2020: Uncut Gems, Mank, The Lighthouse

Feature: Counteract’s 30 best films of 2020

December 29, 2020December 30, 2020 Blaise Radley 1917, A White, Da 5 Bloods, Dark Waters, Dick Johnson Is Dead, Ema, His House, Krabi 2562, Le Kiosque, Lovers Rock, Lynn + Lucy, Mangrove, Mank, Never Rarely Sometimes Always, Parasite, Portrait of a Lady on Fire, Possessor, Residue, Rocks, Saint Maud, Shirley, Sound of Metal, Tenet, The Assistant, The Lighthouse, The Personal History of David Copperfield, The Wild Goose Lake, Trial of the Chicago 7, True History of the Kelly Gang, Uncut Gems, White Day

It’s been a bad year for cinemas, but a good year for films. Explore 30 of the best films of 2020 here with Counteract.

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Feature: Divine retribution in The Crown’s critique of the establishment

December 2, 2020 Hope Talbot peter morgan, the crown

Now in its fourth season, The Crown serves us a blockbuster era of Royal dramatic tragedy, with plenty of divine retribution to boot.

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Feature: Ranking 25 years of Pixar movies from worst to best

November 25, 2020 Harry Jones A Bug's Life, Brave, Cars, Cars 2, Cars 3, Coco, Disney, Finding Dory, Finding Nemo, Incredibles 2, Inside Out, Monsters Inc, Monsters University, Onward, Pixar, Ratatouille, The Good Dinosaur, The Incredibles, Toy Story, Toy Story 2, Toy Story 3, Toy Story 4, Up, WALL.E

We rank the films of Pixar, a studio who’ve brought us some of the greatest animated films of all time. How do they hold up after 25 years?

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Film review: Borat Subsequent Moviefilm is a pointed but overfamiliar satire

October 26, 2020October 31, 2020 Nick Griffin Borat, Borat Subsequent Moviefilm, Maria Bakalov, Sacha Baron Cohen

Sacha Baron Cohen’s most famous creation makes his often hilarious return, but is Borat too well known to fool anyone?

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Film review: The good lord offers little salvation in the horrific Saint Maud

October 12, 2020October 12, 2020 Jeremy Arblaster Jennifer Ehle, Morfydd Clark, Rose Glass, Saint Maud

Rose Glass delivers a blistering debut horror that sees a young nurse struggle to cope with isolation, temptation and salvation.

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Feature: Are the Cineworld closures the end of cinema as we know it?

October 8, 2020October 8, 2020 Hope Talbot Christopher Nolan, cinemas, cineworld

After another disappointing announcement from another sector in the arts industry, what is the future of cinemas in the UK?

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Film review: Dick Johnson Is Dead takes an unorthodox approach to death

October 5, 2020October 5, 2020 Harry Jones Dick Johnson Is Dead, Kirsten Johnson, Netflix

Kirsten Johnson stages her father’s death in a beautiful, honest and courageous film that tries to come to terms with his passing.

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