In Review: Wreck-It Ralph

by Helen Cox 8 February 2013

Remember that ingenious, Toy Story-inspired short that headed theatrical showings of The Muppets last year? The one where Buzz Lightyear winds up at a support group for discarded meal-deal toys? Wreck-It Ralph is a feature-length version of that, of sorts, but instead of being an unloved fast food toy our protagonist is an arcade game [...]

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Dates Announced For 57th BFI London Film Festival

by Martyn Conterio 8 February 2013

Having taken over from the much-loved Sandra Hebron last year, Clare Stewart’s second term as head of the BFI London Film Festival looks set to continue the decision for a shorter event run. The 57th BFI London Film Festival, it has been announced today, will showcase the best in world cinema from 9th October to 20th.

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In Review: The Fall Of The Essex Boys

by Neil Sheppard 7 February 2013

In December 1995, the bodies of three drug dealers were found in a Range Rover in the small village of Rettendon. All three had been shot at close range with a shotgun. This unsolved murder has generated so much interest that, not one, but four different movies have been based on the event.

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In Review: The Blue Angel on Blu-ray

by J P Wooding 6 February 2013

Probably better known today for the fact that it was Marlene Dietrich’s first “talkie”, The Blue Angel is certainly more than just that. Based on Heinrich Mann’s novel “Professor Unrat”, adapted for the sceeen by Carl Zuckmayer, Josef von Sternberg directed an effective tale of one man’s decline.

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21 Days: The Heineken Kidnapping

by Janet Awe 5 February 2013

Director Maarten Treurniet’s take on the kidnapping of beer brewing magnate Freddy Heineken, in 1983, is fronted by the mighty Rutger Hauer. The Dutch cult cinema icon plays the millionaire businessman violently snatched, along with a chauffeur, from outside his Amsterdam office. The two victims were then locked in soundproof cells next to each other [...]

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In Review: Piranha on Blu-ray

by Andrew Latimer 4 February 2013

The 1960s onwards ushered in a generation of directors highly cine-literate and often trained at film school. The idea behind the American exploitation boom, especially Roger Corman’s production outfit, was to allow such filmmakers the chance to explore their style while delivering low-budget pictures to mainstream audiences for a profit. De Palma’s Sisters (1973) and [...]

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Tessa Ross To Receive Outstanding Contribution BAFTA

by Martyn Conterio 1 February 2013

Tessa Ross, controller of Film and Drama at Channel 4, will be this year’s recipient of BAFTA’s Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema Award. The accolade is in recognition of her work supporting British film-making talent and maintaining high standards in the industry.

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In Review: The Queen Of Versailles on DVD

by Ben Sheppard 1 February 2013

There’s a moment ten minutes into Lauren Greenfield’s highly acclaimed documentary that perfectly sums up the family at its centre.  Finding their current lodgings too constrictive for their brood of eight, David & Jacqueline Siegel (he, a time share mogul; she, a former Miss Florida), plan on building their dream home.  With a near bottomless [...]

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In Review: Flight

by Joe Walsh 31 January 2013

The tense, white-knuckle ride that is the opening twenty minutes of Robert Zemeckis’s Flight sees airline pilot ‘Whip’ Whittaker (Denzel Washington) swagger into the cockpit of a plane after a night of debauchery only to be faced with a potential aviation disaster once in the air. After take-off the plane goes into free fall due [...]

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In Review: Nowhere To Go on DVD

by Neil Mitchell 30 January 2013

Though the name Ealing Studios will always be synonymous with the Ealing Comedies, it’s pertinent to remember that those enduring satires on Britishness, stretching from Hue & Cry in 1947 to Barnacle Bill in 1956, amounted to only a fraction of the studios’ total output. War films (such as Alberto Cavalcanti’s Went the Day Well? [...]

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In Review: Movie 43

by Ben Harris 30 January 2013

Movie 43 is brimming with top class actors such as Oscar-winning beauties Kate Winslet and Halle Berry and Aussie favourite Hugh Jackman. But why is Hollywood’s hottest talent associating themselves with such trash? Simple answer: it’s an opportunity to let their guard down, make a fool of themselves and show the world their prosthetic testicles [...]

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