To celebrate the release of The Tim Burton Collection this week, we’re giving you the chance to win one of TWO box sets (RRP £41.00) and take home these eight unmissable movies; Sweeney Todd, Beetlejuice, Batman, Batman Returns, Corpse Bride, Mars Attacks!, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Pee-Wee’s Big Continue Reading
Finally emerging at this year’s 65th Cannes Film Festival after half a century in development hell, Walter Salles’ adaptation of Jack Kerouac’s Beat Generation classic On The Road (2012) – starring Sam Riley, Garret Hedlund and Twilight lead Kristen Stewart – will certainly be worth a look when it’s released Continue Reading
The first trailer is still doing the rounds for US director Wes Anderson’s return to live-action filmmaking, Moonrise Kingdom (2012). Reuniting Anderson with regular collaborators Bill Murray and Jason Schwartzman – on top of a fine cast including Bruce Willis, Tilda Swinton, Edward Norton, Frances McDormand and Harvey Keitel – Continue Reading
Danish director Thomas Vinterberg garnered widespread international acclaim in the mid-1990s with his debut feature film Festen (The Celebration, 1998), an unsettling, naturalistic drama exposing a dysfunctional upper-class Danish family with a shocking secret. Vinterberg’s first film was also the inaugural work of the Dogme 95 movement, adhering to a Continue Reading
★★★★☆ Gerald Thomas’ Twice Round the Daffodils (1962) is a classic example of what British cinema became known for during the 1960s (outside of kitchen sink dramas and Gothic horror) – old-fashioned, feel-good humour. Widely considered an unofficial entry to the Carry On canon, this comedy set within a TB Continue Reading
★★☆☆☆ Perhaps the best-known works of Italian director Lamberto Bava (son of the legendary Mario Bava), produced and written by Dario Argento and starring Geretta Geretta, Urbano Barberini, David Edwin Knight and Asia Argento, Demons (Dèmoni, 1985) and Demons 2 (1986) , are certainly best-watched quickly, and with more than Continue Reading
