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East End Film Festival Announces 2013 Line-up

The East End Film Festival [EEFF], running from 25 June to 10 July, is returning to the better part of London for its 12th and biggest year yet - featuring… [Continue Reading...]
In Review: Motel Hell (1980) on Blu-ray

Backwoods black comedy-horror movie Motel Hell gets a spruce up and bevy of all-new bonus material in this Arrow Blu-ray release.… [Continue Reading...]
In Review: Daleks’ Invasion Earth: 2150 A.D. (1966) on Blu-ray

Daleks’ Invasion Earth: 2150 A.D., made in 1966, is also released on Blu-ray for the first time. Unlike its predecessor, this sequel takes place on Earth.… [Continue Reading...]
In Review: Dr. Who and the Daleks (1965) on Blu-ray

Dr. Who and the Daleks, the first of two movies based on the BBC television series, is released this month for the first time on Blu-ray.… [Continue Reading...]
The New Empress Video Blog: Celebrating 2 Years in Print

This week New Empress Magazine is celebrating 2 years in print. Since our humble A5, quarterly beginnings in 2011 we've grown into an A4 bi-monthly publication… [Continue Reading...]
Event: Beats Rhymes and Life: The Travels of a Tribe Called Quest

Special event klaxon! Do you fancy seeing a screening of music documentary Beats Rhymes and Life: The Travels of a Tribe Called Quest at Clapham Picturehouse… [Continue Reading...]
Win A Copy Of Horror Film ‘The Collection’ On DVD

From the writers of Saw IV, V, VI and 3D comes the thrilling sequel to The Collector that works just as well as a standalone film. Tense, terrifying and… [Continue Reading...]
The Immortals: Grace Kelly

If ever a name was suited to describe a person it was that of Grace Kelly; the actress had a distinctive poise and elegance that charmed cinema-goers,… [Continue Reading...]
StudioCanal Launch Appeal For Lost Wicker Man Materials

Robin Hardy's chilling classic, The Wicker Man, is forty years young. To celebrate the occasion - and to mark the film as one of Britain's greatest, and… [Continue Reading...]

East End Film Festival Announces 2013 Line-up

by Maryann O'Connor on 24/05/2013

east end film festival

The East End Film Festival [EEFF] , running from 25 June to 10 July, is returning to the better part of London for its 12th and biggest year yet – featuring 16 World Premieres, 2 European Premieres and 28 UK Premieres. [click to continue…]

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In Review: Motel Hell (1980) on Blu-ray

by Alan Simmons 23 May 2013

Backwoods black comedy-horror movie Motel Hell gets a spruce up and bevy of all-new bonus material in this Arrow Blu-ray release.

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In Review: Daleks’ Invasion Earth: 2150 A.D. (1966) on Blu-ray

by Matthew Barber 22 May 2013

Daleks’ Invasion Earth: 2150 A.D. , made in 1966, is also released on Blu-ray for the first time. Unlike its predecessor, this sequel takes place on Earth.

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In Review: Dr. Who and the Daleks (1965) on Blu-ray

by Matthew Barber 22 May 2013

D r. Who and the Daleks , the first of two movies based on the BBC television series, is released this month for the first time on Blu-ray.

Read the full article →

The Immortals: Grace Kelly

by Linsey Satterthwaite 21 May 2013

If ever a name was suited to describe a person it was that of Grace Kelly; the actress had a distinctive poise and elegance that charmed cinema-goers, sent a certain director into ‘Frenzy’ and captured the heart of a Prince.

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In Review: Curandero: Dawn of the Demon on DVD

by Alan Simmons 20 May 2013

Written and executive produced by Robert Rodriguez, and directed by Eduardo Rodriguez (no relation), Curandero is a Mexican horror cop thriller starring El Mariachi himself, Carlos Gallardo. Sitting on a shelf since 2005, scripted by Robert Rodriguez way back in 1997, and now sent straight to DVD, has it been worth the wait?

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In Review: Populaire

by Mairéad Roche 17 May 2013

Set in the post-War France late 1950s, director and co-writer Régis Roinsard has fashioned a bright and colourful vintage styled Romantic Comedy (note, not a modern day Hollywood rom-com) within the world of competitive speed typewriting.

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In Review: Dead Mine on DVD

by Alan Simmons 17 May 2013

Director Steven Sheil [Mum and Dad (2008)] jumps from Brit kitchen sink horror to international jungle japes with Dead Mine; a film with less life in it than its undead monsters.

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In Review: The Great Gatsby (2013)

by Maryann O'Connor 16 May 2013

Nick Carraway (Tobey Maguire) arrives in 1920s New York having had his head turned by the huge amounts of green suddenly available to anyone who can get into the game and finds himself living next door to the most enigmatic and successful player in the area.

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In Review: The Numbers Station

by Mairéad Roche 16 May 2013

In The Numbers Stations John Cusack plays Emerson a black ops agent on the gun side of numerical codes who, we are told, are what really run the secret missions around the world.

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In Review: Fast & Furious 6

by Helen Cox 15 May 2013

Post Fast Five the now-wealthy Brian O’ Conner (Paul Walker) is celebrating the birth of his son. Pal and fellow outlaw Dominic Toretto (Vin Diesel) advises O’ Conner on the responsibility of fatherhood and states with the seriousness of a Shakespeare-spouting thespian that their old life is behind them.

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