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With Star Trek (2009) director J.J. Abrams’ nostalgic sci-fi epic Super 8 (2011) released in UK cinemas tomorrow, we give a run-down of the directors major influences from Ridley Scott’s Alien (1979) through to Amy Holden Jones’ 1982 film The […]
There are few settings more perfect than Somerset House to watch a film, and as you embrace the joy of sitting in the warm open air of July, laying out on a blanket staring at Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine […]
The 68th Venice Film Festival kicks off at the end of this month (31 August) with a whole host of world premieres including Tomas Alfredson’s Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (read our preview here), Andrea Arnold’s Wuthering Heights, George Clooney’s The […]
★★☆☆☆ Dmitri Korobkin’s Iron Lord (2010) – or Yaroslav. Tysyachu let nazad in its native Russian – is just one of many recent historical epics to have been released into an extremely saturated, straight-to-DVD market this year, and aside from […]
★★★☆☆ At first glance, Diego Hallivis’ The Duel (2011) appears to be just another run of the mill, wrong side of the tracks, teen-movie; not-so-bad bad-boy moves to new school, gets involved in a sporting contest with dangerous consequences and […]
★★☆☆☆ Recently broadcast on Channel 4, Camelot (2011) is the latest take on the timeless legend of King Arthur, and joins series like Merlin and The Tudors in the collection of must-see viewing for fans of medieval and period dramas.Indeed, […]
★★★☆☆ Based on Alan Glynn’s techno-thriller novel The Dark Fields, Limitless (2011) offers up an exciting and intriguing concept, but not one that is wholly original and without blemish. Whilst the film begins with all of the right intentions and […]
★★★★☆ Had James Gunn’s Super (2010) been released months ago and without the added pressure from the Harry Potter and Transformers series’ it may have had some theatrical success, or at least a longer spell in cinemas. Instead, Super comes […]
★★★☆☆ It’s amazing to think that two feature length movies have spawned from the ‘fake trailers’ that appeared during 2007’s Grindhouse double bill. What’s even more amazing that the two films in question have probably done better in terms of […]
★★★★☆ The feature debut of British comedian Richard Ayoade (best known for his roles in The Mighty Boosh, Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace – which he also directed – and The IT Crowd), the darkly funny coming-of-age drama Submarine (2010) was arguably […]