Features
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Secret Cinema: December Review
How do you review a film that you’re not allowed to talk about? New film releases are generally placed under an embargo of some sort, but Secret Cinema – the London-based film event where patrons buy a ticket without knowing what film it is they are paying to see – puts me in an entirely…
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Red Carpet: ‘Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows’ UK Premiere
Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011) received its European premiere tonight in London’s Leicester Square amidst wind, rain and the cheers of a huge, bedraggled crowd. Braving the icy weather, director Ritchie and stars Jude Law and Robert Downey Jr. took to the red carpet to present the film, which this time…
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Special Feature: Ken Russell 1927-2011
With his shock of white hair and chat show friendly exuberance, the late cult director Ken Russell was a recognisable and entertaining presence throughout the seventies and eighties. He belonged to an extraordinary generation of British filmmakers, which included John Boorman, Nicolas Roeg and Ken Loach. Although diverse, if not idiosyncratic, individuals, they all shared…
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Barbican Film: ‘The Avengers’ 50th Anniversary evening
During an evening of rose-tinted nostalgia, London’s Barbican last night celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of that most British of TV series, The Avengers. Whilst some will remember The New Avengers of the late 1970s, this special event was dedicated to the original episodes starring Honor Blackman (Catherine Gale), Diana Rigg (Emma Peel) and Linda Thorson…
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Twin Peaks UK Festival 2011: Weekend review
David Lynch and Mark Frost’s cult masterpiece Twin Peaks – starring Kyle MacLachlan, Sheryl Lee and Ray Wise – was celebrated in decadent flair at London’s Riverside Studios this past weekend at the Twin Peaks UK Festival 2011. Now in its second year, the festival was captained by the Lynch-inspired Double R Club Cabaret and…
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Special Feature: Martin Scorsese and cast discuss ‘Hugo’
Earlier today at a press conference in Central London, acclaimed director Martin Scorsese discussed his latest feature Hugo (2011), a magical 3D journey about a young boy (Asa Butterfield) who lives in Paris’ Gare du Nord train station, mending clocks and stealing parts in order to repair a complex automaton that he believes is holding…
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Prince Charles Cinema: ‘The Monster Squad’
Any kid who hung around video shops in the late 1980s will remember the The Monster Squad (1987) with great affection and as the lights went down at the Prince Charles Cinema every soul in the auditorium was hoping Fred Dekker’s cult classic would stand the test of time.Written by Lethal Weapon (1987) scribe Shane…
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Special Feature: David Fincher movie marathon
With the English language film adaptation of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo – the first book in the late Swedish crime writer Stieg Larsson’s bestselling Millennium trilogy – due for release in the UK on Boxing Day (26 December) featuring an all-star cast including Daniel Craig (returning as Bond next year in Sam Mendes’…
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Red Carpet: ‘Happy Feet Two’ UK Premiere
In a flurry of fake snow and Arctic-themed decorations, Happy Feet Two (2011) premiered earlier today in Central London. Directed by George Miller, the movie brings back the talents of Elijah Wood (Mumble), Robin Williams (Ramon/Lovelace) and Hugo Weaving (Noah the Elder) as the voices of the singing and dancing penguins, and also sees the…
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Jameson Cult Film Club: ‘Back to the Future’
Spirits were high on Wednesday night as hundreds queued outside Manchester’s Town Hall for perhaps the most hotly-anticipated of this year’s Jameson Cult Film Club screenings. For one night only, the beautiful gothic surroundings of the Great Hall were transformed into the Enchantment Under the Sea Dance, as a full house eagerly watched Marty McFly…