Helen Cox

The Pan-Asia Film Festival Launches in London

by Helen Cox 9 March 2012

Today sees the launch of the 2012 Pan-Asia Film Festival which, now in its fourth year, returns to London’s Asia House , Ciné Lumière and Prince Charles Cinema. Between the 9th and 18th of March the festival will be showcasing Asia’s most promising fresh film talent alongside established filmmakers.

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Dimensions has Gort it! Say Boston sci-fi judges…

by Helen Cox 23 February 2012

Independent director and producer Sloane U’Ren and Ant Neely have returned from the 37th Boston Science Fiction Film Festival with one of the coolest awards in the industry: The Gort Award. Every year this highly desirable statuette is awarded to the best film that screens at the festival. Previously it has been awarded to Duncan Jones’s Moon.

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An official apology from our editor

by Helen Cox 21 February 2012

As an editor there’s one word, above most others, you pray you never see in an email subject line: plagiarism. Yesterday afternoon I received such an email informing me that one of my longest serving, and thus most trusted writers (Nathan D’Rozario), had plagiarised – of all things - his review of the latest Ghost Rider instalment.

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Hits Good, Flops Bad Deduces PM

by Helen Cox 13 January 2012

By Helen Cox Illustration by Neil Stevens I don’t know if you noticed but British PM David Cameron said one or two things yesterday that infuriated a good portion of the UK film community. Cameron made his statement during a visit to Pinewood Studios in light of a film report that is to be published by Lord [...]

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January Blues #1: How to deal with horrible bosses

by Helen Cox 3 January 2012

By Helen Cox After a productive twenty years in prison perfecting their musical skills Jake and Elwood Blues were released on parole to their worst nightmare: Rhythm and Blues had been replaced by RnB.

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2012: Film Futures That Might Have Been

by Helen Cox 1 January 2012

Hungover today? Still got Auld Lang Syne, officially the most depressing song ever written, ringing in your ears? No matter how bleak things seem this morning you have one thing to be grateful for: there is a distinct line between film and reality. At least that’s what I’m told. If this were not the case [...]

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Picturehouse launches in the heart of Hackney

by Helen Cox 28 October 2011

By Helen Cox Photograph ©Joanne Davidson/The Picture Library Ltd. Local Hackney resident, and award-winning actor, Michael Fassbender was amongst the modest band of supporters who gathered for the launch of Hackney Picturehouse yesterday.

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In Review: The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn

by Helen Cox 25 October 2011

By Helen Cox Hollywood has a lot to answer for when it comes to trashing the treasures of my childhood but as I am not a joyless film critic for a national newspaper or a French literary critic lacking any sense of social sensitivity I will not be using the phrase “partying with ghosts” or [...]

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In Review: Dimensions, A Line, A Loop, A Tangle of Threads

by Helen Cox 7 October 2011

By Helen Cox Just about every film geek I know has bemoaned the lack of originality in filmmaking at some point in the last month.

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Human Centipede II [Full Sequence] Classified 18

by Helen Cox 6 October 2011

By Helen Cox After four months of discussion and debate with distributors Eureka Entertainment (Bounty Films’ UK distributor) the BBFC have classified The Human Centipede II [Full Sequence] , awarding it an 18 certificate with cuts. The film was originally rejected by the BBFC in June , a decision which was almost instantly appealed and [...]

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In Review: You Instead

by Helen Cox 16 September 2011

By Helen Cox Although You Instead does steal its premise from an episode of Press Gang – I’ll never understand why Lynda and Spike just couldn’t work things out – there are worse starting points for a film that earns itself a deserved place in the quirky-but-likeable rom-com subgenre.

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