Special Feature: BAFTA & BFI Screenwriters’ Lecture Series
Over the past two years BAFTA have invited many of the finest screenwriters working today to discuss their methods and projects. Past guests at these […]
Sponsored Video: ‘Les Misérables’ featurette
For the first time this January, audiences will experience Les Miserables as never before, in a new and unique adaptation from Academy Award-winning director Tom […]
Film Review: ‘Cross of Honour’
★★☆☆☆ Taking an a tried and tested theme has never been so stilted and unexciting as it is in Peter Næss’ Cross of Honour (Into […]
Film Review: ‘Husbands’
★★★☆☆ Rereleased in UK cinemas this week courtesy of Park Circus, John Cassavetes’ Husbands (1970) showcases the renowned American director’s many talents, whilst simultaneously highlighting […]
Film Review: ‘Barbara’
★★★★☆ From acclaimed German director Christian Petzold comes Barbara (2012), a taut, brooding and intelligent drama set behind the Berlin wall, in the rural provinces […]
Film Review: ‘The Campaign’
★★★☆☆ As Republican candidate Mitt Romney continues to dominate press headlines for all of the wrong reasons, it seems like very pertinent timing for Jay […]
Film Review: ‘Holy Motors’
★★★★★ A directorial maverick in the truest sense, French filmmaker Leos Carax returns this year with the much-hyped Holy Motors (2012), his first solo feature […]
Film Review: ‘Looper’
★★★☆☆ American writer and director Rian Johnson – best-known for his neo-noir debut Brick (2005), less-known for his ensemble piece The Brothers Bloom (2008) – […]
DVD Review: ‘Casa de Lava’
★★★★☆ Loosely based on Jacques Tourneur’s I Walked With a Zombie (1943), Pedro Costa’s 1994 effort Casa de Lava (oddly titled Down To Earth for […]
DVD Review: ‘Dovzhenko: War Trilogy’
★★★★★ Despite often being cited as one of the most important early Soviet filmmakers – primarily for his Soviet montage theory – the name Alexander […]
DVD Review: ‘Rien Ne Va Plus’
★★★☆☆ French New Wave director Claude Chabrol’s latter career is rarely admired and often seen as his weaker period, yet with Rien Ne Va Plus […]
Blu-ray Review: ‘Dr. Mabuse’, ‘Oedipus Rex’
★★★★☆ Eureka Entertainment kick off a busy fourth quarter of business this week with the rerelease of three classic cinematic treats on Dual Format DVD […]
DVD Review: ‘Late September’
★☆☆☆☆ In 2007, Jon Sanders and Nora Hoppe wrote The Belgrade Manifesto, lamenting the stagnation of cinematic language and encouraging other directors to embrace the […]
DVD Review: ‘Free Men’
★★☆☆☆ In war, there are many indignant grey areas suppressed from widespread knowledge, tacit actualities that rarely see the light of day. Whilst Jeremy Isaacs’ […]
DVD Review: ‘El Bulli: Cooking in Progress’
★★☆☆☆ Getting to see the processes behind Heston Blumenthal’s wacky culinary experiments on various television shows is something that many members of the public thoroughly […]
DVD Review: ‘Dark Horse’
★★☆☆☆ Writer/director Todd Solondz returns after a brief 3-year hiatus with Dark Horse (2011) – a film that takes a darkly droll approach into exploring […]
Sponsored Video: Virgin Media presents Shorts 2012
For a fifth consecutive year, this September (up until the climactic award ceremony on 8 November) Virgin Media will once again be running its Shorts […]
Blu-ray Review: ‘Lady Snowblood 1 & 2’
★★★☆☆ It’s been some forty years since Meiko Kaji first sprayed gore across the snowy ground as she was introduced to the world in Shito […]