On the surface, the area around Waterloo station might not seem like such a strange or dark place. However, upon looking hard enough, a bizarre current is noticeable, pulsating through the streets; the remnants of cardboard-city tucked away in the subways, free-runners prancing about the rooftops and, deep underground, a cavernous space dripping with history, [...]
This is another classic Hammer romp through history with Oliver Reed at his mischievous best in this slightly off kilter role. Reed plays Eli Khan, a rebel tribesman in this classic British film set in the Indian desert whist the country is still under the iron grip of British rule. A mixed race lieutenant, [...]
Oliver Reed gives a characteristically big performance in this historical romp based around the English Civil War. Reed plays Captain Sylvester a willing, grinning cohort to his Roundhead boss Colonel Judd also played with vigour and swagger by that old stalwart of British film, Lionel Jeffries. Under orders Reed captures the King and takes [...]
Drive, Nicholas Winding Refn’s minimalist action movie about a stunt driver (Ryan Gosling) who moonlights as a getaway driver, feels like a film out of time. Its methodical pacing, neon-soaked vision of L.A. and electronic soundtrack give it the feel of a lost Michael Mann film and it’s easy to see why the film received [...]
British-Ghanaian artist John Akomfrah’s independent film The Nine Muses is a thoughtful, poetic piece of cinema that explores the immigrant experience of Post War Britain.
French director Michel Hazanavicius is a master at mimicking the works of others; his two hilarious OSS 117 films skewer the silliness of spy movies by recreating their style and tone, whilst throwing a healthy dose of modern absurdity into the mix to create films that feel like undiscovered gems and very fresh, irreverent modern [...]
Kate Winslet projectile vomiting across an expensive coffee table. Christoph Waltz stuffing his face and snorting like a deranged pig. Four people at a meeting in an apartment they appear unable to leave. It sounds like a torturous Sartre play. Thankfully, it is a lot more fun than that. It all takes place in ‘Carnage’ [...]
“WOMAN DEAD IN FLAT FOR 3 YEARS”: an arresting, somewhat anonymous August 2006Sun headline. That woman’s name was Joyce Carol Vincent and she died in her North London flat in 2003, aged 38. Her remains were discovered three years later, with the television still on, its warm glow flickering over a cold cadaver. Joyce passed [...]
If you are looking for those last minute Christmas presents Momentum Pictures have recently released five classic movies on Blu-ray for the first time ever. To fill those gaps in your collection we can recommend these contemporary films stunningly remastered in 1080p high definition for Blu-ray and packed with special features – an essential for [...]
Though he has only directed two films (Shotgun Stories in 2007 and his latest, Take Shelter), Jeff Nichols has already established himself as one of the most exciting directors in modern American cinema. His subtle yet explosive examinations of conflicted men trying to escape the pressures of their past are quietly yet deniably powerful ones [...]
Fleet Foxes have gone the extra mile with this their latest video accompaniment to new single The Shrine / An Argument”. Directed by Sean Pecknold, this is a beautiful, sometimes startling animation. We enter a dreamlike world haunted by dark fairytales. Diabolical beasts and wondrous creatures appear from the gloom as our story is played [...]
It’s hard to watch Andrea Arnold’s version of Emily Brontë’s classic novel Wuthering Heights, about the destructive, all-consuming power of love without comparing it to Cary Fukunaga’s adaptation of Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre, which was released mere months earlier. This is, to an extent, superficial, since the two might not be compared if they hadn’t [...]
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan. Directed by Wayne Wang, Starring Bingbing Li, Gianna Jun, Hugh Jackman Weaving two parallel stories one in the present day and the other in 19th century China, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan tells of the story of how two sets of women, matched as laotong, or “old sames’ [...]
Airing on a half pipe, zipping down the slopes, carving a wave… Who would have thought that a bear was so talented? Introducing Camo Bear. Get to see Julien Lange, Daniel Americo and Miguel Fortes like never before. The new Nikon COOLPIX AW100 camera is shock proof, freeze proof and water proof. Just like Camo [...]
Oslo, August 31st. Directed by Joachim Trier Starring Anders Danielsen Lie Taking place over the course of one day, and inspired by Pierre Drieu La Rochelle’s 1931 novel Le Feu Follet, this melancholic second feature from Trier, tells the story of Anders, a recovering heroin addict, as he contemplates his future. Heading into Oslo for a [...]
The Outlaw (Lope) (2010) Director; Andrucha Waddington. Starring Alberto Ammann and Luis Tosar. Felix Lope de Vega Carpio, or “Lope”, is one of the most notable figures to emerge from the flourishing literature scene of the Spanish Golden Age. He is certainly the most prolific. Lope’s life was emulative of his own writing, fraught with [...]
The beginning of the end commences as we witness the final interview with fashion visionary, Yves Saint Laurent before his loss to his battle with brain cancer. The sadness, the joy, the jubilation, the relapses and the recoveries; nothing escapes the cinematic capabilities of debut director, Pierre Thornton with his Yves Saint Laurent DVD: L’Amour [...]
Based on the original television series by Nigel Kneale, ‘Quatermass’, and the trilogy of films that followed have been highly influential on British science fiction, influencing Dr Who and filmmakers such as John Carpenter. Conceptually ‘Quatermass and the Pit’, the third in the film trilogy, is as powerful today as it was back then. So [...]
Fashion blog icon Diane Pernet’s shaded view on fashion is one of the most influential insider regards on the industry. Based in Paris, the New Yorker’s passion is promoting any talent – young or established – that pushes boundaries or does something transcendental. Since 2008 her film festival – A Shaded View on Fashion Film [...]
Going by the opening scene of Tyrannosaur, the debut directorial feature of actor Paddy Considine (Dead Man’s Shoes, Hot Fuzz, The Bourne Ultimatum), in which its main character beats his beloved dog to death, it would be all too easy to dismiss it as yet another example of miserablist kitchen sink drama that British cinema [...]
In Attack The Block, the feature debut of director Joe Cornish, a group of young hoodie types encounter then kill an alien. Thinking less of their act of violence than their mugging of a young nurse (Jodie Whittaker), the gang walk away, unaware that their actions will have dire consequences; more aliens are on the [...]
Over two decades, Mark Kermode has established a reputation as one of the most forthright and opinionated film critics in Britain by trumpeting the importance of horror and genre cinema, often flying in the face of popular opinion – as demonstrated by his long-standing disdain for the Pirates of the Caribbean and Transformers franchises – [...]
Outside the Law is the third film in a trilogy from acclaimed director Rachid Bouchareb (Days Of Glory, London River) who offers a fascinating insight into the Algerian independence struggle through the lives of three brothers. The Oscar nominated film begins with family tragedy when the brothers lose their home in Algeria. As a [...]
Pedro Almodóvar reunites with his erstwhile muse Antonio Banderas for ‘The Skin I Live In’ after a gap of twenty-one years to tell the story of Robert Ledgard, a brilliant plastic surgeon who lives alone, apart from a few servants, in a vast mansion which also doubles up as his clinic. The only patient currently [...]
John Michael McDonagh’s feature debut, The Guard, opens with a scene in which a group of young men are seen drinking and driving around the back streets of County Galway whilst Rock Star by N.E.R.D. plays on the soundtrack. It’s an exuberant, slightly obnoxious opening gambit that ends almost as soon as it begins. Powered [...]
In tribute to the legendary actress, Elizabeth Taylor, the British Film Institute are to pay homage to the golden screen goddess by screening ten of her most iconic films throughout August 2011. Taylor, who died on 23rd March, was an extraordinary figure in Hollywood with a career spanning six decades and over three hundred screen [...]
The great Soviet director Andrei Tarkovsky directed only seven feature films, one documentary and a handful of short films between 1958, when his earliest student shorts were filmed, and 1986, when he died at the age of 54 from lung cancer. The tragedy of Tarkovsky’s death at such a young age is heightened by the [...]
Since his 1973 directorial debut, Badlands, Terrence Malick has carved out a niche for himself as one of the great poets of cinema. In a career that has lasted nearly forty years, he has created a small but beautifully realised body of work that explores a number of profound themes, the most prominent of which [...]
Pinkie is not a pretty character. He’s ambitious and ruthless. A razor-wielding teenager who’s has dragged himself up for the grime and is now clawing his way to the top of a seedy and literally cut-throat underworld. Brighton Rock is a doomed romance. A warped love story between a murderer and a witness. Powered by [...]
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Asif Kapadia’s film presents the story of Senna using solely archive footage, over which are played interviews with an array of Senna’s family, friends, fellow drivers, journalists, commentators, and Senna himself. Straight away, this removes the sometimes distancing artificiality of most documentaries; why cut away from some exhilarating footage of Senna tearing around a track [...]
Thelma Schoonmaker, arguably the greatest living film editor, has worked alongside director Martin Scorsese for the past thirty-plus years. When not making movies together the pair set about raising funds to restore the works of Powell and Pressburger. Schoonmaker, married to Michael Powell from 1984 – 1990, has recently been doing the press rounds to [...]
Kelly Reichardt’s latest feature film, Meek’s Cutoff is a beguiling period piece drenched in atmosphere and quiet dramatic moments which, slowly but surely, unfurl into profound developments and realisations. Meek’s Cutoff takes place on the famous Oregon Trail in 1845 and concerns a wagon train of settlers led by self-aggrandising charlatan Stephen Meek (Bruce Greenwood) [...]
“I’ve really had the career I wanted initially, you know. I wanted to be part of a film movement – I didn’t know how we were going to have it, but in film school I’d read about the French New Wave, the New German cinema, and I was like, well I want to be part [...]
Paying homage to the hairdresser who shaped the 60s, Vidal Sassoon The Movie documents the life of the man who changed the world with a pair of scissors. Most famous for his geometric shaped haircuts, this film portrays Sassoon as a rags-to-riches story, defining the hairdresser as one of the founders of the 1960s British [...]
Award-winning comedian and writer Richard Ayoade (The IT Crowd) makes his feature film debut with a quirky adaptation of Joe Dunthorne’s 2008 novel. Submarine stars Craig Roberts as precocious school boy Oliver Tate who falls in love with a pyromaniac flirt named Jordana (Yasmin Paige) one day at school. As love blossoms in the hearts [...]
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